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The Onset of the Rainy Season, Marking the Arrival of Summer

Best Sellers   The Onset of the Rainy Season, Marking the Arrival of Summer Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of June, 2025   2025.07.07   June in Korea is the beginning of summer, with the heat and rainy season just around the corner. After a hot May filled with issues surrounding the presidential election, the days have returned to their familiar routine, like an old book. The books that made it onto the best seller list in the second week of June stand out with their sharpness that pierces through that familiarity. This is especially the case with Sung Hye-Na’s Honmono. The author’s new collection of short stories, with its intense and chilling narrative, has been widely loved since its publication. Meanwhile, Kim Keum-Hee’s My First Summer, Wanju, introduced in the previous issue’s “New Books” section, comforts readers with its contrasting warmth and affability. Also drawing attention is K...
  • VOL.84 / 2025.07
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Spring Blooms With Books: The Beginning of a New Semester

Best Sellers   Spring Blooms With Books: The Beginning of a New Semester Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of March, 2025   2025.04.07   Though climate change is causing more extreme weather events, the season is coming to spring. In Korea, where winter and spring cross paths, it seems like everyone is busy preparing for the new semester after the winter vacation.As if to prove the staying power of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang’s Human Acts has reclaimed the top spot. It wasn’t the only novel that made a comeback. Yang Gui-Ja’s Contradictions, ranked No. 5 in the overall ranking, has been on the best seller list for months, creating a new boom. The novel, which has gone through 132 printings since its first publication in 1998, delicately depicts the life of Ahn Jinjin, a 25-year-old single woman whose life is full of contradictions. Another best seller, Adult Happiness is Quiet, which has been a consi...
  • VOL.81 / 2025.04
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2nd Week, August 2024

Best Sellers   2nd Week, August 2024 Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.09.02   The unprecedented heatwave and tropical nights have led readers to take a break from the heat by reading books of all genres. It seems that they found books to be a great way to soothe their exhausted bodies and minds. In the second week of August, the best selling titles were spread across a wide range of genres, including fiction, humanities, business, and foreign languages.To begin with, A Few Words of Encouragement for You by Kim Jong-Won continued to rank high following last month, as teenagers spent their vacation immersed in reading and growing up. The book, a philosophical essay on how to move past puberty, a common life rite of passage, and into adulthood, offers a chance for introspection and growth. Coming in at No. 4, Three-minute Philosophy in Cartoons is an easy-to-understand, cartoon take on philosophy that’s great...
  • VOL.74 / 2024.09
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2nd Week, July 2024

Best Sellers   2nd Week, July 2024 Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.08.05   It’s July, which means the rainy season has begun in Korea. As people spend more time indoors than out due to the heavy rains, books to organize their thoughts, books to read for relaxation, and textbooks to prepare for various exams topped the best seller lists. In terms of genres, the humanities and young adult sectors were dominant, signaling a trend influenced by vacations and school breaks.Despite all this, the No. 1 best seller was A Very Personal Thought on His Destiny by Rhyu Si-Min, featuring the author’s sharp observations as a political critic. Although it deals with a rather sensitive topic, it offers a deep and wide view of the contexts beyond the status quo, demonstrating the high level of political criticism that has reached its essence. The No. 2 and No. 8 on the best seller list were books for young adults. At No. ...
  • VOL.73 / 2024.08
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#Winter

#K-Book   #Winter KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.01.02   Snow 1. Publication Details   Title | SnowAuthor | Yoon Jane, Oh SeungminPublisher | NURIMBOPublication Date | 2018-01-17ISBN | 9788958762157No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 210 * 260   2. Book Intro   One snowy day, kids hurriedly run outside with excitement. But the main character from Snow only looks out the window. She has a disability and cannot walk. The grandmother in the story empathizes with her granddaughter and relays a story from her childhood about what she did on a snowy day.After the opening in Snow, we are immediately taken to the Grandmother’s childhood days; a story of one snowy day in the 1950s unfolds with beautiful pictures and text. As the granddaughter listens to her grandmother’s story, she slowly opens up her heart. She says she wan...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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Korean Picture Books Today

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...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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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...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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A Place Where You Can Make Unforgettable Memories: Hakuda Photo Studio

Book Trip   [Into the Book ③] A Place Where You Can Make Unforgettable Memories:Hakuda Photo Studio Welcome to Jeju, an island of splendid natural landscape and relaxation!   2023.10.04   Hakuda Photo Studio       “Hakuda means ‘will do’ in the Jeju dialect.So, it means ‘a photo studio that makes anything look wonderful.’”     Jeju Island, the largest island in Korea, attracts Koreans and tourists from abroad with its gorgeous weather and stunning natural scenery. There is a photo studio there that captures whatever the customer wants. It’s the story of “Hakuda Photo Studio,” which takes photos of everything from weddings to family vacations, memorable trips with friends, and even academic photos. The book Hakuda Photo Studio (Noll) is a full-length novel that features the heartwarming stories of a photographer, Seok-Young, and Je-Bi, who moved to Jeju after getting tired of living on the mainlan...
  • VOL.63 / 2023.10
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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 ...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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2nd Week, August 2023

Best Sellers   2nd Week, August 2023 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2023.09.04   August in South Korea can be a challenging month with hot days, but it’s also exciting for students and office workers as it means summer break and vacations. A variety of books for different tastes made it to the integrated list of bestsellers with summer vacations coming up, but two fiction titles stood out. The fourth on the list, Even with the Dimmest Light, is a new novel by Choi Eun-Young, who enters the 10th year of her career this year. The book, consisting of seven mid- to full-length stories, received comments that it reads like a long letter written by the author, which makes it immersive and compelling. Another book, a full-length novel, The Rainbow Goblin Store, came in ninth place. The book, which was exported to six countries before publication, has been highly anticipated not only in Korea but also around the world....
  • VOL.62 / 2023.09
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