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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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The Wisdom to Survive in the Ever-changing World

One-Liner Quotes   The Wisdom to Survive in the Ever-changing World Professional investor’s pick   2024.03.11   Yeom Seung-Hwan is the director of the Retail Department at EBEST Investment & Securities and has worked in securities firms and broadcasted on stock investing. He has written The 77 Most Important Questions for Novice Stock Investors (One & One Contents Group Publishing).     The first book I would like to introduce is Forecast of the Times: Era of Nuclear Individuals (Kyobo Book Center). Song Gil-Young, the writer of this book, is a “mind miner” who reads and interprets the human mind from big data, which is an accumulation of millions of people’s records. He has spent the last 20 years observing people’s daily records to understand the meanings they are looking for, and using them to predict future currents and trends.I chose this book not becau...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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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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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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Publishers and YouTube: Current Status and the Future

Knowledge   Publishers and YouTube: Current Status and the Future   2024.03.11         Publishers start their own YouTube channels   When Minumsa first started YouTube in early 2019, YouTube’s influence was already at its peak, with teenagers perceiving it as synonymous with the internet, and creators being at the top of children’s future career lists. In the Korean publishing industry, the term “YouTube-seller” emerged, with books introduced on YouTube becoming bestsellers. Naturally, it became the main task of publishing marketers to find influential booktubers to advertise or endorse new books. In order to proactively respond to this environment, many large and well-funded publishers have started to launch and operate their own YouTube channels.At this point, most publishers’ YouTube channels can be characterized by th...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Starting Life With Books, Bookstart Korea

Publishing Policy   Starting Life With Books, Bookstart Korea   2024.02.19                     Initiated in the UK, “Bookstart” is a worldwide program that has now spread to around 40 countries.Starting in 2003 in Korea, it celebrates the 21st anniversary this year.   Bookstart Korea is run by more than 300 libraries in about 72% of local governments with about 1,000 partner organizations.Giving bags full of picture books as a gift for babies, the babies and parents read them together in joyful laughter. Bookstart Korea is a program that gives happiness and joy!   Six Objectives of Bookstart Korea ? Providing social support for childcare ? Providing communication tools between parents and babies ? Helping babies get familiar with books ? Giving parents tips for childcare ? Supp...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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2023 Publishing Statistics & 2024 Publishing Market Outlook

Publishing Industry   2023 Trends in the Korean Publishing Market and 2024 Forecast   2024.01.02         2023 Trends: Growth in self-help, comics, and parenting books   As the COVID-19 pandemic turned endemic in the spring of 2023, travel books saw a resurgence in popularity. The popularity of anime such as Slam Dunk has led to increased sales of manga, and popular YouTubers have joined the publishing market using manga characters. In addition, books by popular writers for grown-up readers, such as physicist Kim Sang-Wook, have been transformed into children’s educational comics.   * K-Book Trends Vol. 42 ? Go to the interview of writer Kim Sang-Wook   In addition, despite recording the world’s lowest birth rate, the popularity of books on raising children in Korea has increased. While the market for marriage,...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
[INFORMATION / NEW BOOKS]

Forecast of the Times: The Emergence of Light Civilization

New Books   Forecast of the Times: The Emergence of Light Civilization The era when massive, heavy bodies become smaller and lighter   2025.10.02                     Since the Industrial Revolution, the mass production system that made producing more things at a faster pace, and the organizations that grew as large as the technology itself, have defined the “heavy civilization” that dominated our society for the past 200 years. However, with the advent of AI, the diligent and hardworking life has become the very symbol of inefficiency. Now, it is not the size or weight of the economy that matters, but the speed of response to change. This is because humans can never match the speed and productivity of AI.   “The people of this planet, who maintained competitiveness by sleeping less, working harder, and pushing further than others, are now beginning to feel powerless.” - from the book   Fo...
  • VOL.87 / 2025.10
[INFORMATION / BEST SELLERS]

Autumn: Democracy Reflected in the Pages

Best Sellers   Autumn: Democracy Reflected in the Pages Bestseller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of September, 2025   2025.10.02   September 15 is the International Day of Democracy, designated by the United Nations. Coincidentally, Korea’s September book market also saw the spotlight fall on works that reflect a strong desire to safeguard democracy. At No. 1 on the overall bestseller list for the second week of September was About Goodwill by Moon Hyung-Bae, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea. Once a scholarship recipient of the well-known philanthropist Kim Jang-Ha, Moon gained public attention in April when he published a book. In this new essay, published after his retirement, he reflects on the lessons of “Adult Kim Jang-Ha,” who taught that true gratitude should be given back to society rather than to individuals. Meanwhile, author Kim Cho-Yeop’s The Double-Sided Shell entered the list at No. 4 i...
  • VOL.87 / 2025.10
[INFORMATION / #K-BOOK]

#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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