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Topic Korean Picture Books Today Closing the 2023 Korea Picture Book Award 2024.01.02 In November 2023, the winners of the first Korea Picture Book Award, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), were announced. Eight titles and publishers were honored in the grand prize, special prize, and rookie prize categories for fiction and nonfiction. Considering the size of the prize and the diverse range of winning titles, it was a good start for a new award system. The “picture book” genre is not yet fully established in the Korean publishing industry. For example, in large bookstores, “picture books” are placed in a subcategory of the pre-school category. However, the fact that we were able to clearly recognize “picture books” as a single artistic genre and reach a consensus in the screening process to organize an “award for picture books” is thanks to the strong...

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Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature

Export Case Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature 2024.01.02 February 11, 2024, will mark exactly 30 years since Korean writer Djuna uploaded his first short story to an online SF community on the PC communication service “HiTEL.” The story was titled A Butterfly that Traveled Back in Time, and it was Djuna’s first official release. Since his debut in 1994, Djuna has published a total of 170 novels, and it is almost 200 if you count his unpublished works as well. He is the most prolific and longest-running science fiction writer in Korea. Djuna is like a cornerstone of Korean SF, with many SF writers confessing to being his fans, saying that they were greatly influenced by him. However, it was only recently that Djuna was introduced to the international audience. It was in 2019 that the short stories The Second Nanny and The Bloody Battle of the Broccoli Plain were published separately as ebooks, audiobooks, and paperbacks...

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2nd Week, November 2023

Best Sellers 2nd Week, November 2023 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea 2023.12.04 For the second week of November, books that have been the center of attention dominated the list of bestsellers. The book Reading Schopenhauer at Forty quickly rose to the top of the list after being recommended by actor Ha Seok-Jin on the popular Korean TV show “I Live Alone.” On the show, he was shown to be very dedicated to self-management - exercising, studying, and enjoying his hobbies - which likely inspired viewers to purchase the book. The book features 30 pieces of advice from philosopher Schopenhauer, who has inspired countless people. It offers wisdom for those entering their 40s with mixed feelings to realize the true meaning of life.Han Kang’s I Do Not Bid Farewell, published in 2021, won this year’s Medici Prize in France, again ranking 7th on the overall bestseller list. The Korean publishing industry is rejoicing ...

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Konishi Naoko

Korean Translator Konishi Naoko 2023.12.04 Profile ? Korean-Japanese translator ? E-mail: naoko21@hanmail.net Education ? B.A., Rikkyo University College of Arts ? M.A. in Korean-Japanese interpretation, HUFS Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation Courses ? Completed a special course at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) Translation Academy ? Completed Translation Atelier at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) Published Translations ...

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#Flower

#K-Book #Flower KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.12.04 A Flower, You Are as I Am 1. Publication Details Title | A Flower, You Are as I AmSubtitle | A Song of Flowers that think about PhilosophyAuthor | Dae-Youn, ChoPublisher | BOBBOOKPublication Date | 2021-06-23ISBN | 9791158587888No. of pages | 143Dimensions | 140 * 225 2. Book Intro This book titled A Flower, You Are as I Am is a beautiful collection of poems containing philosophical thinking of the poet for flowers. He wrote the poems with poetic words easy to read through a lyrical flower song by breaking the prejudice that philosophy can be regarded as difficult. The poet begins to draw his poems thinking ‘why did flowers come to us?’ When he sees grass flowers blooming that make the world beautiful and fragrant, he thinks that flowers tell ...

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Successful Publication Cases of Korean Children’s Books in China

Export Case Successful Publication Cases of Korean Children’s Books in China The joy of Korean children’s books is explained by “The Magic Elephant Books,”the children’s book imprint of Guangxi Normal University Press Group 2023.12.04 Since around 2000, Korean picture books have developed in a variety of ways, with increasingly rich materials and better illustrations, beginning to have an international presence. This led to a series of Korean children’s books being imported into China around 2010. In particular, the “Survival” series on scientific facts, published in China in 2013, attracted great attention in the children’s book industry and generated huge sales, triggering a boom in Korean book imports in China. Plus, with the winning of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards by Korean writers Baek Hee-Na and Suzy Lee, the fever of Korean book imports continues to this day. * K-Book Trends Vol. 26 ? Go to the interview with wr...

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2023 Korea Picture Book Award

Info 2023 Korea Picture Book Award Announcement of the winners of the 2023 Korea Picture Book Award and the awards ceremony 2023.12.04 Winners Grand Prize ? Fiction: The Disappeared Dinner (written by Kwon Jung-Min, published by Changbi Publishers) ? Non-fiction: A Round of Tightrope Walking (written by Minha, published by Gloyeon) Special Prize ? Did You Say I Am Pretty? (written by Hwang In-Chan and Lee Myeon-Ae, published by Springsunshine Publishing) ? Mephisto (written by Luly Lee, published by BIR Publishing) ? Wind Blowing On Mudeungeewat (written by Kim Young-Hwa, published by Iyagikot Publishing) ? ...

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The Only One

New Books The Only One 2023.11.06 A new full-length novel by Choi Jin-Young, winner of the 2023 Yi Sang Literary Award. The Only OneThe story of a “life broker,” who borrows the lifespan of a single leaf from a millennia-old tree to save just one person.If you could save just “one” of the many deaths around you, which would you choose? Suicide, homicide, accidental and natural deaths... The realistic moments of death that appear in the dreams of 16-year-old Mokhwa.And then a voice. “The one you choose gets to live.” Mokhwa must now make a choice that has been passed down through generations.There is only one person that Mokhwa can save. Is this mission for Mokhwa a miraculous gift from God, or a wicked trick of the devil? “Only humans pray for another’s life. They are in need of God. They hope for a mir...

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Yoojin Lee

Korean Translator Yoojin Lee 2023.11.06 Profile Yoojin Lee is a Korean-English translator. She received her bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Ewha Womans University. She earned her master’s degree in translation studies from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Ewha Womans University. She won the Commendation Award in fiction for translating the novel Boy Meets Girl by Kim Do-eon at the 39th Korean Literature Translation Award held by the Korean Times. She embraces a wide range of subjects, and particularly has a passion for literature, humanities and social sciences, and children’s literature. ? Contact: krazylois@naver.com Education ? Earned M.A. in translation studies, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Ewha Womans University ? ...

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#Book Fair

#K-Book #Book Fair KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.11.06 Five-Dog Night 1. Publication Details Title | Five-Dog NightAuthor | Chae Young-shinPublisher | EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.Publication Date | 2021-07-20ISBN | 9791167370433No. of pages | 276Dimensions | 140 * 210 2. Book Intro Se-min, a child suffering from albinism, and Hye-jung, a mother who has to protect Se-min from the world. This novel heavily depicts the road to tragedy for Se-min’s family, plagued with bullying and violence. School violence, tragic family history, and the atrocities of religious cults seeking a ‘savior’ for the world?this novel endlessly throws questions about pain that we cannot avoid. “Where are you now?”, “Where is your place now?”- Winner of the 7th Hwangsanbeol Youth Literary Award * k-book.or.kr/u...

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