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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, family, pregnancy, and childbirth has decreased, the market ...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Humanities Books

Publishing Policy   2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Humanities Books   2024.01.02                                 Korean Humanities Bestsellers for 2020 - 2022Explore Korean humanities books that will inspire your life with rich knowledge and refined ideas!   2020 1 Broad and Shallow Knowledge for Intellectual Conversation: 0 2 You’re Always Right 3 When I Don’t Know What I Really Want 4 Broad and Shallow Knowledge for Intellectual Conversation: 1 5 Seol Min-seok's Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 6 A Book for Highly Sensitive People 7 Seol Min-seok'...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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Marketing in Korean Bookstores: Recovered Editions & Book-funding

Publishing Industry   Marketing in Korean Bookstores:Recovered Editions & Book-funding Faster and unlike anyone else   2023.12.04         “Faster and unlike anyone else” - this is a phrase from a popular Korean song. No item is exempt from this rule, but it is a hot topic in the Korean publishing and distribution market. Because of the fixed book price system, price competition among retailers is impossible in Korea. Shipping competition, which was fierce in the early days of online bookstores, has also faded. This is because there is not much difference in the delivery speed between bookstores. Competition for merchandise is still fierce but less so than before for various reasons, including readers’ fatigue with merchandise and rising production costs. So, how can bookstores promote their books “faster and unlike anyone else”?There are two ways that stand out - recovered limit...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Self-help Books

Publishing Policy   2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Self-help Books   2023.12.04                                 2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Self-help BooksDiscover Korean self-help books that share life wisdom and secrets to success!   2020 1 Secret of the Top 1% in Harvard 1 Reboot 3 The Having 4 Eight 4 I Start My Day at 4:30 AM 6 This One Phrase Sav...
  • VOL.65 / 2023.12
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Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activities and Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry   Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activitiesand Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry   2023.11.06         Libraries are public service organizations that are easily accessible to anyone in their daily lives when it comes to reading activities. The Korean Library Act also defines a library as a place that contributes to the promotion of reading culture based on library materials. After the Korean government designated 1993 as the “Year of Books,” the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and publishing organizations carried out vigorous campaigns to promote reading among the public. They pushed for the enactment of the “Reading Promotion Act (tentative title)” as a basis for more systematic and continuous promotion. In the process, as discussions progressed with the library co...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Picture Books

Publishing Policy   2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Picture Books   2023.11.06                                 2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Picture Books.Let’s see which books have been loved by children, and which books have caught the world’s attention!   2020 1 Magic Candies 2 The Bath Fairy 2 Carrot Kindergarten 4 Moon Sherbet 5 The Strange Mom 6 Cloud Bread 7 The Watermelon Pool 7 I Am a Dog 9 We’ll Always Be Together Again ...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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Bookshelves are Going into TVs!

Publishing Industry   Bookshelves are Going into TVs! The collaboration of picture book content andIPTV companies seen through the case of the “Digital Book Service”   2023.10.04         The background and purpose of expanding publishing content into IPTV content   The logo of U+ Kids Service serviced by LG U+     In 2017, LG U+, the company I’m working for, launched a service for children for the first time called “U+ Kids Service.” The biggest challenge we faced while preparing the service was the difference between what children want to watch and what parents want to show them. In fact, when I interviewed customers, I often heard, “When we started raising children, we got rid of the TV at home and put a bookcase in the living room in place of the T...
  • VOL.63 / 2023.10
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2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Fiction

Publishing Policy   2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Fiction   2023.10.04                                 Bestsellers in Korean Fiction from 2020 to 2022Let’s take a look at which books were loved by readers, as well as those that were noteworthy in each year!   2020 1 Dallergut Dream Department Store 2 Almond 3 If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light 3 I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day 5 School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung 6 From Sisun 7 Human Acts 8 Mail from Mailbox No. 110 8 ...
  • VOL.63 / 2023.10
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Today and Tomorrow of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System

Publishing Industry   Today and Tomorrow of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System   2023.09.04         Current status of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (KOPDS)   When Song-In Books, a large South Korean book wholesaler, went bankrupt in 2017, many publishers were left in a state of chaos. Publishers suffered a lot of losses because they were unable to keep track of which books were in which bookstores, and how many copies were in stock and sold. This prompted the creation of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (KOPDS), which was built in accordance with the Fourth Five-Year Plan for the Promotion of Publishing Culture, reflecting the need to build an advanced distribution system for the publishing industry. The system was launched in Sept...
  • VOL.62 / 2023.09
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Winning and Nominated Works for International Literary Awards in 2022

Publishing Policy   Winning and Nominated Works forInternational Literary Awards in 2022 Korean Literature Recognized Worldwide for Its Literary Value   2023.09.04                           With growing global interest in Korean literature, books are being published in translations in a variety of fields.Here are the Korean literary works that have been recognized internationally for their literary value in 2022!   Counterattack at Thirty (written by Sohn Won-Pyung, published by EunHaeng NaMu Publishing) - Winner of Japan’s Booksellers’ Award for Translated Fiction - A novel centered on a thirty-year-old protagonist who struggles to cope with the contradictions of institutional authority and exploitative structures in everyday life.   ...
  • VOL.62 / 2023.09
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