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A Decade of Living With Poetry: The Poet’s Journey Blossoming Through Verse

Book Trip   [A Trip to Literary Museums ⑧] A Decade of Living With Poetry:The Poet’s Journey Blossoming Through Verse Chungcheongnam-do, Buyeo-gun: Shin Dong-Yeop Literary Museum   2024.12.02   Buyeo is a place that witnessed the rise and fall of the ancient kingdom of Baekje, located in the southwestern part of the Korean Peninsula. It was home to the Baekje royal palace for 122 years until the kingdom’s fall. Traveling to Buyeo is like traveling back in time to the glory and prosperity of Baekje. This is because you can enjoy the charm of ancient culture and arts in depth. Additionally, Buyeo is home to the Shin Dong-yeop Literary Museum, where visitors can encounter the poet Shin Dong-yeop, who resisted the painful modern history of Korea. Also, a journey to Buyeo is an encounter with a rich, long-established culture, as you can visit the Buyeo National Museum, where you can explore the various cultural heritages left behind by the Baekje pe...
  • VOL.77 / 2024.12
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Korean Publishing Market’s Trends in 2024 and Outlook for 2025

Knowledge   Korean Publishing Market’s Trends in 2024 and Outlook for 2025   2024.12.02         Trends in 2024: Questioning life, fandoms, and Nobel Prize in Literature   Philosophy and psychology books have dominated the Korean publishing market, with Reading Schopenhauer at Forty (Uknowbooks) topping the overall bestseller list through August. Also, 11 of the 30 bestselling fiction titles in the first half of the year were “rebound” titles, meaning they were published more than 10 years ago. In addition, the nonfiction category returned to growth after 4 years of decline, and the cases of books becoming bestsellers after being recommended by celebrities increased.Reading Schopenhauer at Forty has continued to grow in popularity this year after being featured on a TV entertainment series last year. The autho...
  • VOL.77 / 2024.12
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A Small, Steady Conversation Toward an Equal Society

New Books   A Small, Steady Conversation Toward an Equal Society     2026. 10     Jang Hye-young, An Equal Ordinary,Humanitas, 2026.   Jang Hye-young’s An Equal Ordinary tells the stories of marginalized people who have to fight just to live an ordinary life. She patiently and thoroughly unpacks the social pressure behind that familiar advice to “just live a normal life like everyone else.” Even “ordinary,” the author points out, has its own hierarchy. To count as ordinary, you need a college degree, a respectable job, a salary above a certain line, and a home in the Seoul area. Failing that, you should at least be investing in stocks or crypto. And it doesn’t stop there. There’s a standard for everything: you have to try the desserts trending on social media, and there are rules about what to wear and which handbag to carry to a friend’s wedding, and what kind ...
  • VOL.99 / 2026.10
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September Bestsellers: Welcoming Autumn

Best Sellers   September Bestsellers:Welcoming Autumn     2026. 10     For our October issue, we conclude our series on major Korean bookstore franchises by looking at the bestsellers at Arc N Book. Much like Jongno Books, Arc N Book offers various sales charts but lacks a unified list that integrates both online and offline sales. Therefore, this article focuses on its online rankings.   Taking the top spot at Arc N Book in the second week of September is the children’s comic book Hunhan Nammae 21, continuing the immense popularity of this beloved series. Right behind at number two is Na Tae-joo’s poetry collection, People, Love, and Flowers, which is a rare and remarkable achievement for poetry on the bestseller charts. Overall, Arc N Book’s September chart stands out for its strong showing in both children’s literature and fiction. Prominent novels that have maintained steady popular...
  • VOL.99 / 2026.10
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A Season Scented with Chrysanthemums: Midang Literary House and Jilmajae Pass in Gochang

K-Book Map   A Season Scented with Chrysanthemums:Midang Literary House and Jilmajae Pass in Gochang     2026. 10     October: Gochang and Its Literary Museums Where Literature Comes Alive   In October, the area around Seonun-ri in Gochang, Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province, transforms into a landscape where literature comes alive. This is the birthplace of Seo Jeong-ju (Midang), a prominent figure in modern Korean poetry, as well as the setting that inspired the spirit of his renowned poem, “Beside a Chrysanthemum”. Just as the cries of the cuckoo and the thunderous sounds that echoed from spring through summer ultimately blossom into a single autumn chrysanthemum, Jilmajae Pass in October welcomes a season that feels as though a poem has stepped directly into realit...
  • VOL.99 / 2026.10
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Agency List

  Agency List   Agency List     2026.10     Abba Communication Ltd.   Launched as a translation and interpretation agency in 204, Abba Communication (Abba here after) now also acts as a copyright agency. Abba supports young Korean publishers who are aspiring to build experiences in moving on to the international market, providing consultation on the way until they become global. Abba’s special forte is its excellent professional team with expertise in re-writing and/or editing synopses and introductions into texts both competitive and persuasive. Other services Abba provides include translating original materials and creating promotional texts.   Focused Subjects  LiberalArts : Biography, Management, Negotiation   Contacts • Kim jungsukE-mail : jskim@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707-2103 / Regions : Asia, UK, USA • Han-gyul GoE-mail : a...
  • VOL.99 / 2026.10
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The Art of Selling Books: Innovative Strategies by Korean Booksellers

Topic   The Art of Selling Books:Innovative Strategies by Korean Booksellers   2024.11.04   You will be able to find the figures for “reading preferences” in the results of the National Reading Survey conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in Korea last year. It gives a hint to the “actual” reading population based on the ratio of people liking books. The overall reading rate covering paper books, e-books, and audio books was 95.8% for elementary, middle, and high school students and 43.0% for adults; the actual reading preferences turned out to be 39.6% for students and 18.3% for adults. The actual reading rate, which means readings done autonomously, is cut in half from the overall reading rate as the overall figure includes cases in which people have to read books for necessary reasons, such as for work or educational purposes. Why do people read books, but have very few “enjoyable” experiences reading them? Well, consi...
  • VOL.76 / 2024.11
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Literary Awards: A Message of the Times

Special Project   [Award-winning Korean Books ①] Literary Awards: A Message of the Times Major Korean literary award-winning books in 2024   2024.11.04   Writer Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024     Where does the authority of the Nobel Prize in Literature derive from? Is it the huge prize of 1.3 billion won, or the long history of 124 years? Or is it the exceptional life stories of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite? Well, it’s probably a combination of all of these elements, but more than that, it’s the message that holds the secret to its long-standing authority. The Nobel Prize in Literature has always pointed out exactly what we, as a species, need to think about right now, and where we should be headed together. Each year, hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world share the same curiosity when the Prize is announced. They ask themsel...
  • VOL.76 / 2024.11
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The Mood We Want for Tomorrow

New Books   The Mood We Want for Tomorrow     2026.09     Kang Bora, Kwon Seok, et al., Even Wanting It to Be Fun Is Asking Too Much, Munhakdongne, 2026.   Even Wanting It to Be Fun Is Asking Too Much is a short story anthology published by Munhakdongne since 2023. The anthology's theme is “labor.” Its editor is novelist Jang Kang-myoung, a writer who moves between reality and literature to capture a self-portrait of Korean society, sometimes sharply and sometimes with humor. In planning the labor fiction series, he set the rule that, driven by the belief that “more works capturing today's labor scene need to be written,” the stories should record the “here and now” rather than decades past or a distant future, and should be written realistically, through legwork.   Jang Kang-myoung, together with writers who shared this vision, formed a literary collective cal...
  • VOL.98 / 2026.09
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August Bestsellers to Cool Off the Sweltering Summer

Best Sellers   August Bestsellers to Cool Off the Sweltering Summer     2026.09     In this September issue, we examine the bestseller rankings from Jongno Books, South Korea's third-largest bookstore chain. While Jongno Books maintains various sub-charts, it does not offer a combined ranking for both online and offline sales. Therefore, unlike our previous reports, this month's analysis relies exclusively on online sales data.   In the second week of August, the young adult science fiction novel Big Home claimed the top spot on the official Jongno Books Naver Store. Notably, Big Home did not appear on the August bestseller lists of any other major bookstore. Furthermore, it stood as the sole work of fiction to rank within Jongno Books' top 10. The bookstore's August rankings were predom...
  • VOL.98 / 2026.09
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