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The City of Islands and Stories,Tongyeong of South Gyeongsang Province

The City of Islands and Stories,Tongyeong of South Gyeongsang Province   2019.06.10     Sometimes there are words you try to avoid using because they are tired clich?s, but at times you have no other choice but to use them. So you take these 'dead phrases' out of the drawer, shake the dust off with a disdainful look on your face. One of these situations would be when people use "yehyang (a location from whence many artists have hailed)" as a prefix for the city of Tongyeong.   There, the 'Jaengi' lived Tongyeong of South Gyeongsang Province. This was the location where Admiral Yi Sun-sin led the Battle of Hansan Island, attempting to fend off enemies from the Korean Peninsula. In honor of his memory, the city's name was Chungmu until 1995, Yi's posthumous name. The city's current name was derived from a phrase that referred to a naval command that had jurisdiction over the three provinces of Gyeongsang, Jeolla and Chungcheong. When looking at the bigger historic i...
  • VOL.12 / 2019.06
[INTERVIEW / KOREAN AUTHORS]

Author Jeon Min-hee

Author Jeon Min-hee Publishing Abroad Requires Faithful Translation and Cultural Understanding   2019.06.10   Author Jeon Min-hee is a fantasy novel writer who started her career with the serial novel The Stone of Days in the late 1990s on Nownuri, a now-defunct internet platform in South Korea. Since then she has penned novels like the Children of the Rune series, the Archeage Chronicles series, The Stone of Days (Jeu Media) and Tower of the Sun (Jeu Media). Among these, Children of the Rune and Archeage Chronicles have been adapted into PC games called “Talesweaver” and “Archeage”.The original Children of the Rune is divided into two main parts, with the first book (Part One. Winterer) telling the story of a young boy, Boris Jineman, who is tasked with protecting a sword called the 'Winterer', a family treasure, on a barren territory called the Mortal Land following the collapse of great ancient kingdoms. The second part, titled 'Demonic', is the tale of a genius b...
  • VOL.12 / 2019.06
[REPORT / INTERVIEW]

Bookpal

Bookpal The possibility of South Korea's web fictionMake your stories shine! Meet Bookpal   2017.7.28   South Korea's web fiction market has been growing quickly. As businesses dealing with the Internet and mobile platforms develop, web fiction, or web novels in the country's publishing industry have been receiving more attention. 'Bookpal' is the leading web fiction website in South Korea which mainly focuses on romance novels. The following is an interview with Bookpal, which is also aiming to look beyond South Korea.       Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) Hello, thank you for sitting with us in ak-book trends interview. Could you provide us with an introduction?   Bookpal Hello. We are Bookpal, a company currently dreaming of becoming one of the top companies in mobile contents. Our business currently operates a web fiction series platform that deals mainly with text - which is the start of all contents. Currently there are thousa...
  • VOL.2 / 2017.07
[NEWS / PUBLISHING INDUSTRY]

South Korea's publishing industry

South Korea's publishing industry The offline distribution status of South Korea's publishing industry   2017.7.28   From publishers to large-scale bookstores, regional bookshops and second-hand bookstores, South Korea's offline book distribution structure is detailed as it is diverse. This is a close look into South Korea's offline publication distribution structure and the issues surrounding it.   Differences in growth per bookstore size   According to a biennial survey carried out by the Korea Federation of Bookstore Association, there were 2,116 offline bookstores in South Korea as of 2015. This was 38 percent less than a decade ago when the country had 3,429 bookstores in 2005. The decline was mainly driven by smaller bookstores closing down, whereas the number of larger bookstores over 330 square feet rose 8 percent over the same period from 262 to 283. This outlined the trend that although the headline number of bookstores is on the decline, the physical siz...
  • VOL.2 / 2017.07
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