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How Book Club Platforms Captivate Readers

Topic   How Book Club Platforms Captivate Readers   2024.03.11   It is the age of communities. From sneaker manufacturers to franchise cafes, companies are putting as much effort into building communities as they are into making things. Gathering loyal fans in one place to generate buzz and feedback has become a proven business strategy in an environment where we are bombarded with information and products. The publishing industry is no exception. Publishers and bookstores are opening cafes and book clubs, creating apps, and publishing newsletters. They reward book club members with exclusive editions of books and merchandise to give them a sense of belonging, or even let them choose the cover design of a new book.Beyond the business strategy of the publishing industry, the importance of book-reading communities is growing every day in the overall book culture ecosystem. There is something contagious about people’s activities. If you are surrounded ...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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For Planet Earth, Where We Coexist

Special Project   [Book × Animal] For Planet Earth, Where We Coexist   2024.03.11     By their very nature, books are vessels of knowledge encompassing all fields. Endless topics can be written about depending on the material and message. In the [Book × _____ ] series, experts recommend Korean books in their respective fields that you’ve been curious about but had trouble discovering more about. Now, let’s jump into the infinite world of books through the collaboration of books with various fields.     The vegetarian diet is a decision for animal rights and the environment   Vegetarian Diet and Animal Rightsfor Future Generation     It doesn’t seem that long ago that the curriculum for students in Korea started covering animal rights. Especially in a country that went through a period of famine, animals were just a source of foo...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Warm Hope in a Cold City

Book Trip   [Into the Book ⑧] Warm Hope in a Cold City Jongno-gu, Seoul: What’s still with us today   2024.03.11   One Hundred Shadows       As I thought Mujae was somehow looking shady when he said, “Don’t follow shadows,” I strained my eyes and looked again, and there was a sunshower falling like a spider’s web.     Hwang Jung-Eun’s first full-length novel, One Hundred Shadows (Changbi), is the story of Eunkyo and Mujae, two characters working in an electronics store in the center of the city. The cold cityscape and the old, desolate electronics mall are the backdrop of the novel, but the two protagonists’ youthful love story is what makes this novel so appealing, with just the right amount of heaviness and lightness. Also, the story of “shadows” in the title is not to be missed - the unrealistic occurrence of shadows rising up on their own is v...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Korean Gardens by Your Side

New Books   Korean Gardens by Your Side Learning the aesthetics of reflection from Korean gardens   2025.11.03                 When we think of a garden, we often imagine a well-tended flower bed or a space where trees are neatly planted. However, only by stepping outside that narrow frame can we truly begin to encounter the diverse faces of the Korean garden. A garden is not just a space to be cultivated - it is where the human heart resides. Its meaning changes with the mind of the person who tends it and the generational background.   “Within a garden lie traces of the heart that reach beyond mere scenery.” - from the book   Just as we can understand why Yoon Seon-Do, disheartened by the world that failed to recognize him, built a lavish garden at Seyeonjeong on Bogildo Island, and how the small gate and modest pond of Toegye Yi Hwang’s Dosan ...
  • VOL.88 / 2025.11
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Greeting Autumn After a Long Chuseok Holiday

Best Sellers   Greeting Autumn After a Long Chuseok Holiday Bestseller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of October, 2025   2025.11.03   In early October, Korea observed Chuseok, one of its two major traditional holidays alongside Seollal (Lunar New Year). This year’s Chuseok was unusually long, as National Foundation Day and Hangeul Day followed one after another, giving people almost ten days off. The lingering summer heat extended into early October, but after days of rain during the Chuseok period, cooler air finally arrived, marking the true beginning of autumn. With long rest and steady rain, readers naturally turned their attention to books - befitting the season often called “the season of reading.”The bestseller list for the second week of October reflected the approaching year’s end. Trend Korea 2026 took the No. 1 spot, followed by Money Trend 2026 at No. 4. As the year closes, readers once again...
  • VOL.88 / 2025.11
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#Memory

#K-Book   #Memory KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.11.03   Your Garden 1. Publication Details   Title | Your GardenAuthor | Na HyunjungPublisher | GloyeonPublication Date | 2021-06-24ISBN | 9788992704847No. of pages | 58Dimensions | 209*308   2. Book Intro   Breathing a story into a dry, empty path.A story of bricks in the city sidewalk, with varying shapes and colors. Although the author brings the sidewalk’s life into a place, not of grand creation, but still just a simple path we walk on. Mundane things, a ball, a piece of grass, a cat, and a sewer cover are all things we usually see, but as the writer focuses on these objects, they become more than just objects, but characters with stories and life. The black-and-white pictures drawn with a scratchy pencil are like a potion that leads the reader on a story...
  • VOL.88 / 2025.11
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A Call for an Evolutionary Level of Imagination: Replacement of Dominant Species

Publishing Industry   A Call for an Evolutionary Level of Imagination:Replacement of Dominant Species Current status of author management in Korea   2024.02.19         Korea’s Greenbook Agency (CEO Toni Shi-Hyoung Kim) was one of the earliest adopters of the concept of author management. It was originally founded in 2006 as an agency specializing in the international trade of publishing rights. All of its executives, including CEO Kim, are former publishing professionals or translators, and the company has completed more than 1,000 copyright deals. In 2017, the company launched its author management business by signing an exclusive contract with Kim Bo-Young, a major Korean SF writer. Since then, it has signed award-winning fiction and non-fiction writers such as Bora Chung, Djuna, Park Seo-Ryun, Kim Hyun-Jin, Shim Wan-Sun, and Kim Joo...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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Agency list

Agency List   Agency list   2025.11.03   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 : abba@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707...
  • VOL.88 / 2025.11
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#Tradition

#K-Book   #Tradition KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.10.02   A Round of Tightrope Walking 1. Publication Details   Title | A Round of Tightrope WalkingAuthor | MinhaPublisher | GloyeonPublication Date | 2022-11-25ISBN | 9788992704724No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 165*280   2. Book Intro   A Picture book that depicts our tightrope walking through synaesthesia.Korean tightrope walking, which is listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, is regarded as a comprehensive art, beyond just showing acrobatic talent like tightrope walking in other countries, but through the jokes and interactions between the tightrope walkers and the clowns, and the performance of Six Samhyeon Instruments. ‘A round of tightrope walking’ captures these characteristics of our tightrope walking in a picture book whilst taking into the mo...
  • VOL.87 / 2025.10
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KPIPA Organizes “Korea Rights Centre” at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair

Info   For the reignition of enthusiasm for K-Books, KPIPA Organizes“Korea Rights Centre” at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair   2025.10.02                 The world’s largest book fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, is opening its doors. - Frankfurt Book Fair offers a global stage for promoting the export of Korean publishing content and strengthening the capacity of Korean publishers. To carry forward the growing global enthusiasm for K-Books, we are heading to Frankfurt, Germany. Through the promotion of Korean publishing culture and industry, we aim to elevate Korea’s presence and build strong global publishing business networks.   ? Period: October 15 (Wed.) - 19 (Sun.), 2025 ? Venue: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany   At this year’s fair, 15 Korean publishing companies, 41 consignment publishers, and 101 Korean titles will meet with international publishing part...
  • VOL.87 / 2025.10
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