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Topic Travelers Return After COVID-19 2023.06.05 The trend of travel books in Korea before and after COVID-19 After the Korean government lifted the bar for overseas travel in 1989, the major driver behind the growth of the travel book market in the 1990s was guidebooks, which mainly delivered information about the destination country. The introduction of the Across the World (RH Korea Co., Ltd., formerly published by Random House) series, which was the translated version of the magazine How to Walk on Earth published by Diamond Big in Japan, opened the first generation of travel guidebooks in Korea. In the late 1990s, the second-generation guidebooks such as the Centuplicate Your Joy (RH Korea) series and the Just Go (Sigongsa Co., Ltd.) series published, which the foreign rights were bought from Japanese publishers and translated in Korean. Since then, those series developed along with the revised editions and Korean writers began to actively engag...

VOL.59 / 2023.06

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Divorce Attorney Shin

Special Project [Book & Media ⑤] Divorce Attorney Shin Everyone Has the Right to a “Sacred” Divorce 2023.06.05 The protagonist becomes a divorce lawyer out for revenge.Clients consult with the protagonist in desperation.A “human” story created by two intertwined pillars. The drama “Divorce Attorney Shin,” which aired simultaneously on JTBC and Netflix in 2023, was a drama based on the webtoon with the same title. The original story Divorce Attorney Shin (book publisher: MIMESIS Co.) was a hot series recording more than 25 million accumulated views, and the decision to dramatize the webtoon was welcome news for the fans as they had been praying for it throughout the serialization. Also, drama fans have eagerly waited for the show’s premiere, as it featured a cast of Korean actors known for their excellent acting, such as Cho Seung-Woo, playing the main character Shin Sung-Han, and Han Hye-Jin, who joins him in a lead role. With mas...

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#Dream

#K-Book #Dream KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.06.05 Children of the Red Thread 1. Publication Details Title | Children of the Red ThreadAuthor | Jeon SamhyePublisher | PurplerainPublication Date | 2022-01-24ISBN | 9791191842128No. of pages | 244Dimensions | 128 * 195 2. Copyright Contact Name | Bae Jeongeun - Greenbook Agency, Foreign RightsEmail | jeongeun@grb-agency.comPhone | +82-02-2676-2201 3. Book Intro Jeon Sam-hye, in their lively depiction of young adults standing in the threshold of childhood and adulthood making their way through strange new worlds, brings us a tale of a group of superpowered outsiders whose extraordinary abilities are the source of loneliness and hurt as they deal with the tragic fate of the cosmos. Yuri, a girl who has dreams that are premonitions, is caught one day by a classmate who realizes h...

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[INFORMATION / AGENCY LIST]

Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2023.06.05 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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The Marketing Strategy for the Chinese Version of The Mummy Book

Export Case The Marketing Strategy forthe Chinese Version of The Mummy Book A Korean picture book sold more than 30K copies in a year:What was its secret to touching the hearts of Chinese moms? 2023.06.05 I remember the day I first opened the book, The Mummy Book (Korean publisher: Woongjin ThinkBig, Simplified Chinese Version Title: 我的?? (My Mom)), during the planning meeting deciding whether to publish it. On the sky blue cover, there was a round-faced young girl with curiosity all over her face, and its smooth feeling brought me back to the desk as I returned from work. I soon fell into the story. The book’s first page shows a mother and “I” lying silent on a bed and starts with a sentence that says, “A mom was born as I was born.” The beginning of the book leads readers on an adventure observing a mother from a young girl’s point of view.Many picture books under the theme of mother, such as Anthony Browne’s My Mum, a Chinese classic children’s...

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Japanese Translator’s Pick

One-Liner Quotes Japanese Translator’s Pick 2023.06.05 There’s a place that I go to whenever the spring comes after the winter. It’s my mom and dad’s graves, who passed away quite a long time ago. The graves are barren and desolate, showing how cold it was last winter. The grass has turned yellow, the leaves are thickly piled, and there are even holes made in the ground by animals from the mountain. But it’s a relief that the tall pines and yew trees surrounding the graves are green. Basking in the spring breeze, I wipe down the headstones with a mop, rake leaves with a pitchfork, firmly step on dry grass, and startle, like usual. It’s because there are fluffy balls ? pasqueflowers ? everywhere. Blooming one step ahead of the winter, pasqueflowers were bending their purple heads down.And a scene comes to mind. It’s the childhood of the two daughters. Whenever the two daughters, who have now become adult...

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The Current and Future Ecosystem of Published Comics

Topic The Current and Future Ecosystem of Published Comics 2023.05.02 Fast-Growing Korean Webtoons According to the Korea Creative Content Agency’s (KOCCA) “2022 Comics Industry White Paper,” Korea’s Webtoon market exceeded 1.6 trillion won in volume. It is the 4th largest In the world, following Japan (4.5 trillion won), China (1.8 trillion won), and the US (1.7 trillion won). Considering each country’s population, the Korean webtoon market is enormous. Korean webtoons show rapid share growth yearly in South East Asian countries, including Thailand and Indonesia, Japan, European countries, and North America. As of the 1st half of 2021, Kakao Japan’s Piccoma and Naver Line’s Line Manga took 70% of the digital comics share in Japan. Revenue of Piccoma was around 730 billion Won, and Line Manga’s (including e-book Japan) recorded about 800 billion Won (NEWSPIM, 2022.04.25.), competing to take the #1 place as a domestic webt...

VOL.58 / 2023.05

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Flowers of the Orient ? Bringing Korean Gems to Polish Readers

Export Case Flowers of the Orient? Bringing Korean Gems to Polish Readers 2023.05.02 Sixteen years ago, immediately after a fellow Korean Philology student and good friend, Edyta Matejko-Paszkowska, and I decided to establish a publishing house that was centered around Korean literature, people were perplexed. ‘Why?’ they asked. Few believed it was a great idea at the time, and some attitudes could now be considered mocking. However, now that the Korean wave (Hallyu) has reached Poland, they are no longer laughing. The popularity of Korean cuisine, language, dramas, and K-pop has extended to Korean literature.Up until around 2007, a total of seventeen titles of what could be classed as modern or classical literature had been translated from Korean into Polish - extremely low compared to the likes of Japan or China, which both ran into the hundreds. Several key factors explain why Korean literature translations weren’t widespread. Firstly ...

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[INFORMATION / NEW BOOKS]

I’m in Tongyeong

New Books I’m in Tongyeong 2023.05.02 I’m waiting for you in the southern land, where the cherry blossoms bloom. I’m in Tongyeong A new title by writer Ku Hyo-Seo, one of Korea's representative novelists and a beloved author among readers.Enjoy the beautiful landscape of Tonyeong, read romantic stories, and indulge in the lingering impression that the story has to offer! Novelist "Iro" discovers the special taste and history behind a dessert made by "Park Hee-Rin," the owner of the cafe "Tolo" located in Tonyeong.The story focuses on Korea in the 1980s, a turbulent period marked by democratization movements.As the past and present intertwine, and the shattered lives of the characters come together as one…….Complex human emotions ? going from hot to cold ? reveal the fate of a former police officer and a...

VOL.58 / 2023.05

[INFORMATION / #K-BOOK]

#Love

#K-Book #Love KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.05.02 Some Shape of Love 1. Publication Details Title | Some Shape of LoveAuthor | Seon Ran CheonPublisher | ArzaklivresPublication Date | 2020-07-20ISBN | 9791165508340No. of pages | 336Dimensions | 137 * 197 2. Copyright Contact Name | Choi JaechunEmail | decomma@gmail.comPhone | +82-10-3495-1125 3. Book Intro This is the first collection of novels by Cheon Seonran, who received the grand prize for full-length novels at the 4th Korean Science Literature Awards.Included in the collection is To the Desert, a story of a woman who becomes an astronaut that was written at the suggestion of Cheon’s father to write about the desert, as well as Lessi, in which an expedition to Saturn’s ice moon Enceladus to overcome the extinction of sea creatures on Earth is met with an alien encount...

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