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Topic From YouTube to Books 2023.09.04 It was common to find books written by YouTubers on bookstore shelves in Korea this year. It is a phenomenon that has been around for a couple of years now, when publishers realized that they could turn subscribers into readers, and quickly started to sign popular YouTubers as authors. Even if you have never heard of the channel before, it is not hard to tell that the book’s author runs a YouTube channel. This is because, among other things, the copy on the book’s cover, “YouTube channel ○○○ with 10 million total views,” emphasizes the author’s experience more than anything else. I have a YouTube channel with 130,000 subscribers, and my new book has never been without a copy like this. It seems to have become one of the most important tasks for editors to draft a copy with up-to-date total subscribers and total views every time a new book is published. ...

VOL.62 / 2023.09

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Kang Bang-Hwa

Korean Translator Kang Bang-Hwa 2023.09.04 Profile ? Korean-Japanese translator ? Professor at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) (literature, video subtitles) ? Email: yoshika44@naver.com Educational Status ? Bachelor of Law, Okayama Shoka University ? M.A. in Korean-Japanese Translation, Ehwa Womans University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation ? PhD in Creative Writing, Korea University Translated Literature Japanese covers of Seven Years of Darkness, Miserable Light, Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, and A Thousand Blues ...

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Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2023.09.04 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 : +82-2-707-2103 / Regions : Asia, UK, USA ...

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Fly on a Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner: Witches’ Delivery

Book Trip [Into the Book ②] Fly on a Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner: Witches’ Delivery The Place from the Fantasy Novel: Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 2023.09.04 Witches’ Delivery “(...) It’s good that it’s Seongnam. It will be within the Bundang-gu area. Is there a large lake or something like that around here?”Bora gulped, swallowing hard.“Yes, two. Two reservoirs. The Bundang Reservoir is much bigger than the other.”“Good,” said Yoon-Jung, starting the car. The short-story collection Witches’ Delivery, which features hilarious and whimsical events revolving around witches and characters with superpowers, was published in 2020 by Safehouse Inc. as the fourth volume of its short novel series. While the story Witches’ Delivery, which has the same title as the collection, talks about somewhat offbeat and unrealistic subj...

VOL.62 / 2023.09

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Slin Jung

Korean Translator Slin Jung 2023.08.07 PROFILE Slin Jung is a freelance translator and interpreter based in Toronto, Canada. She received an MA in conference interpretation at the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation (GSIT) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. ? Email: slin.jung13870@gmail.com Published Translations ? Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea by Hwang Sok-yong, Lee Jae-Eui, and Jeon Yong-Ho (Verso, 2022) ? Black is Black, White is White from The Age of Doubt by Park Kyongni (Honford Star, 2022) ? Co-translation of Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by Kang Myeongseok (Flatiron Books, 2023) ...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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#Food

#K-Book #Food KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.08.07 Tasty Philosophy 1. Publication Details Title | Tasty PhilosophySubtitle | Stories of Philosophy Found in Everyday DishesAuthor | Oh SuminPublisher | NEXUS Co., Ltd.Publication Date | 2019-12-06ISBN | 9791161658209No. of pages | 248Dimensions | 128 * 188 2. Copyright Contact Name | Hyejin ChungEmail | copyright@nexusbook.comPhone | +82-2-330-5529 3. Book Intro This book is a philosophy book that starts not with concepts, but with food. Watching bungeoppang (fish-shaped buns) being baked nice and brown, smelling the scent of Delimanjoo in the subway station, frying “backroom” chicken instead of ordering fried chicken… the writer discovered philosophical elements and wrote of philosophical concepts and philo...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2023.08.07 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...

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Mexican Readers and Korean Literature

Export Case Mexican Readers and Korean Literature Korean Literature is the Promised Land of the Western Publishing Market 2023.08.07 Although Mexico and South Korea are on different continents and have many differences, they both have a history of fighting for their identity and country. While some events, such as the immigration of the first Korean community to Mexico in 1905, have been erased from Mexico’s official history (the historical debt is still being addressed), there is no arguing that the friendly relationship between the two countries is growing stronger every day as they find common ground.Korea has increasingly expanded its influence through its culture and entertainment industry to bring down the borders, and its music and TV series, especially the drama and action genres, have been favored by Latin American audiences, including Mexico. Latin American audiences have long been influenced by the United States in their approach to universal hu...

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Where the Children from the Book Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play

Book Trip [Into the Book ①] Where the Children from the BookChildren of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play Mansuk-dong, Dong-gu, Incheon: Time Travel with the Book 2023.08.07 Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village The Kwaeng-i-bu-ri Village is the oldest poor neighborhood in Incheon. (...)Over the years, the village turned from a forest of pine trees into a factory townfull of smokestacks and shanty houses. Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village (Changbi Publishers), published in 2000, is a children’s book featuring the life of twin sisters Sook-Hee (the main character) and Sook-Ja living in a poor daldongne neighborhood. The word “daldongne” means a poor village situated on the slopes of a hill in Korea, and it is said to have deriven from its proximity to the moon. It is widely known that Kim Jung-Mi, the writer, had once run a s...

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#Life

#K-Book #Life KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.07.03 Learning from Life 1, 2, 3 (Series) 1. Publication Details Title | Learning from Life 1, 2, 3 (Series)Author | Yun Soyoung, Minjae ShinPublisher | Little Mountain Publishing Co.Publication Date | 2020-03-05ISBN | 9791155251287No. of pages | 248Dimensions | 173 * 230 2. Copyright Contact Name | Jo JinryungEmail | littlemt2001ch@gmail.comPhone | +82-2-335-7365 3. Book Intro The Learning from Life series studies three subjects - 'to be alive,' 'to learn,' and 'to live together' - through stories about various forms of life.On Earth, humans live together with a number of different forms of life. Each form of life has its own way of living, and nobody should carelessly damage its life. There is a need to develop a sens...

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