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Publishing Policy Paju Bookcity We Introduce to You the One-and-only Book City in Korea 2023.04.03 We Introduce to You the One-and-only Book City in Korea: Paju BookcityPaju Bookcity is a national, cultural and industrial complex organized in Munbal-dong, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, which has been supporting various cultural projects centering on books.Paju Bookcity hosts a variety of cultural events throughout the year and operates Asia Publication Culture & Information Center and the Forest of Wisdom, a cultural complex. Paju Bookcity’s Cultural Events Paju Bookcity Festival for Children - A “book playground” for children- Meet & Greet authors, book DIY, children’s book readings, etc. Paju Booksori - Largest book festival in Korea- Various programs including humanities, art, exhibitions, a...

VOL.57 / 2023.04

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How are Regional Publishers in Korea Thriving?

Publishing Industry How are Regional Publishers in Korea Thriving? Cooperation of local publishers seen through the Somewhere, Someone series 2023.03.13 I’m living in a village by the ocean in Goseong County, Gangwon-do Province. The first thing I do in the morning is take a walk on the shore in front of the village with my dog. Once I reach the shore, I take off the leash for him to move around freely, and check orders from bookstores on a number of applications. Sometimes, I sit in a corner, enter the logistics website, and start my morning work. Spending 3-4 minutes typing in the number of books and the name of the warehouse for the day is the most important task. Then, I put my dog back on the leash again, and head home.This was a dream 10 years back. Back then, the facsimile in one corner of the publishi...

VOL.56 / 2023.03

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Achievements of the “One City, One Book” Movement

Publishing Industry Achievements of the “One City, One Book” Movement 2022.10.04 Seosan-si selected and nominated Uncanny Convenience Store (Namu Bench) for the general public and A Child Who Climbed over a Wall (BIR) for children as books to read together during the “2022 Pan-Citizen One City, One Book Movement: The Book of the Year Proclamation Ceremony” held in the city hall’s situation room on Aug 10, 2022. In April, citizens of Seosan-si recommended a total of 54 books. The library’s steering committee reviewed the books, and two were nominated as the “Book of The Year.”The book Uncanny Convenience Store is a piece that depicts the joys and sorrows of our neighbors living in this harsh era from a warm and humorous perspective. The novel has a small convenience store on the corner of an alley as its background. Meanwhile, this year’s children’s book was A Child Who Climbed over a Wall, which gives its readers the strength and c...

VOL.51 / 2022.10

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Trends in the Publishing Market in the First Half of 2022

Publishing Industry Trends in the Publishing Market in the First Half of 2022 2022.08.01 People are still reeling from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has swept the world over the past three years. Korea has been rapidly taking actions to return people’s daily lives to how they were before the pandemic. Such efforts can be seen through major terms commonly used in news outlets, such as “endemic” and “post-COVID.” Also, in early June, the Seoul International Book Fair was held at COEX on a large scale after a three-year absence, attracting approximately 100 thousand visitors. What’s more, lectures and autograph signing events of writers that had halted due to the social distancing policy have begun to take place again. It also seems that publications, book sales, and book-related programs are beginning to revitalize.Books related to “endemic” include From Pandemic to Endemic (Dongasia Books), written by researchers at the Institute for ...

VOL.49 / 2022.08

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Korea’s Writing Platforms

Publishing Industry Korea’s Writing Platforms 2022.07.04 In the book Writing Space, Jay David Bolter says that writing technologies realize the writing space. In other words, the writing tools, materials used, cultural selection, and social customs significantly impact the writer’s writing style and content. As a result, changes in writers’ works will be more evident in a different environment in the long run. After the Digital Revolution, people write about their daily lives more on screens than on paper, and people are moving from offline to online at an astoundingly fast pace.With changes in writing space, the pathway to publishing books is also changing rapidly. In the past, writers won literary awards, submitted to publishers, or were recommended by acquaintances before publishing their works in paper books. In contrast, writers nowadays increasingly publish their writings on online writing platforms first, get found by editors, and ...

VOL.48 / 2022.07

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The Era of the Metaverse: Will It Allow Authors and the Publishing Industry to Coexist?

Publishing Industry The Era of the Metaverse:Will It Allow Authors and the Publishing Industry to Coexist? 2022.03.07 * Metaverse: Metaverse is a term consisting of “meta,” meaning “virtual” and “transcendent,” and “universe,” meaning space. It refers to a three-dimensional virtual world where social, economic, and cultural activities take place just like reality. * NFT: Meaning “Non-Fungible Token,” NFT refers to a token that represents rare digital assets. Transition to an era where we can own a famous writer’s poem On June 5, 2021, the third poem collection Rat and Oyster (Hyundae Munhak) of writer Bae Soo-Yeon was published in the form of an NFT, sold at 2.94 Ethereum on Opensea, an online NFT marketplace. The momentary currency of 2.94 Ethereum was approximately 9 million won, which today costs about 10 million. If we think that a poem col...

VOL.44 / 2022.03

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Reviews, Review Journals, and the New Review Culture

Publishing Industry Reviews, Review Journals, and the New Review Culture 2021.12.06 More than 80,000 books are published each year. It means that about 200 books are released in the market every day. Some become bestsellers, and some vanish from the shelves in a few days. People that are "sincere" about reading books lose their way in the piles of new books, trying to figure out which book is good to read. Some people wait for the book column in a newspaper, some listen to book introductions on TV or radio, and some nod their head to the fancy wordplay of book-tubers on YouTube. However, as there is no appropriate or trustable guide, many readers feel as if they are trapped in Daedalus' Maze. Besides, there are voices arguing that there's actually no book to read, for there's no water to drink in a flood. Recently in Korea, a small seed of hope has sprung up, that the new review culture will arrive, centered around a number of review journals. ...

VOL.41 / 2021.12

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Korea’s Audiobook Industry Ready to Fly in 2021

Korea’s Audiobook Industry Ready to Fly in 2021 The ongoing rapid evolution and development of the audiobook industry in Korea 2021.03.08 The most striking news in the new year was Influential, the operating company of an audiobook service platform ‘welaaa’, succeeding in winning 25 billion won worth of Series C sole investment from UTC Investment. This is after another mega-investment in 2020, where it attracted 13.5 billion won worth of Series B investment. Such a fast and massive investment implies that the future of the audiobook industry in Korea is rosy indeed. The domestic e-book industry says that the audiobook market's size has reached 30 billion won in 2020 and is likely to hit 60 billion won in 2021, which is nearly double the size. The audiobook market in Korea was formed in the early 2000s, but its size was trivial, with 10 billion won worth volume even until 2018. Given that situation, it is worth paying attention to the movement th...

VOL.32 / 2021.03

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Korea’s Training Programs for Publishers Today and Tomorrow

Korea’s Training Programs for Publishers Today and Tomorrow 2021.02.08 1. The early establishment of educational organizations for cultivating talented publishers The paradigm surrounding planning, editing, producing, and marketing in the publishing market is changing with the rapid transformation of the publishing environment. With the coexistence of the old and modern trends in the market (e-books & paper books or audiobooks, analog & digital, and traditional media & smart media), “publishing” has become a key medium for developing and bridging new content. As we are living in the era of a cultural economy based on knowledge-intensive industries that create original content for the cultural content industry, cultivating talented publishers that are capable of understanding the attributes of content and consumers’ desires has become a key factor in developing the publishing industry. Considering this trend, the importance of train...

VOL.31 / 2021.02

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Tax & Accounting Issues in Korea’s Publishing Industry

Tax & Accounting Issues in Korea’s Publishing Industry 2021.02.08 Recent trend in the Korean publishing market Looking at the overall trend in the history of the Korean publishing market, paper books had been taking the center for a long time. However, e-books or the “e-book market” emerged, and today, publishers are having a greater interest in exporting copyrights of publications. This phenomenon has led to reduced demand for physical facilities, spurring the establishment of single-person publishers and small-sized publishing companies. This article covers tax and accounting issues related to the publishing industry in Korea. Tax structure related to publishing in Korea The types of tax imposed on publishers running a business in Korea are as follows: 1. Value-Added Tax (VAT) Publishing companies are primarily VAT-exempt business entities. However, more publishers are expanding their business to selling products ...

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