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Special Project [Book × Architecture] The Dwelling Culture of Korea 2023.11.06 By their very nature, books are vessels of knowledge encompassing all fields. Endless topics can be written about depending on the material and message. In the [Book × _____ ] series, experts recommend Korean books in their respective fields that you’ve been curious about but had trouble discovering more about. Now, let’s jump into the infinite world of books through the collaboration of books with various fields. From hanok to apartments... Korea’s changing dwelling culture In general, the fields that study dwelling culture the most are architecture and cultural-related areas such as cultural anthropology, cultural geography, and folkloric studies. Since the 2000s, however, many books on dwelling culture have started to be published in Korea, especially in the field of architecture. The foundation for this a...

VOL.64 / 2023.11

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Agency List Agency list 2023.09.04 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 : +82-2-707-2103 / Regions : Asia, UK, USA ...

VOL.62 / 2023.09

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#Food

#K-Book #Food KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.08.07 Tasty Philosophy 1. Publication Details Title | Tasty PhilosophySubtitle | Stories of Philosophy Found in Everyday DishesAuthor | Oh SuminPublisher | NEXUS Co., Ltd.Publication Date | 2019-12-06ISBN | 9791161658209No. of pages | 248Dimensions | 128 * 188 2. Copyright Contact Name | Hyejin ChungEmail | copyright@nexusbook.comPhone | +82-2-330-5529 3. Book Intro This book is a philosophy book that starts not with concepts, but with food. Watching bungeoppang (fish-shaped buns) being baked nice and brown, smelling the scent of Delimanjoo in the subway station, frying “backroom” chicken instead of ordering fried chicken… the writer discovered philosophical elements and wrote of philosophical concepts and philo...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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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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Agency List Agency list 2023.08.07 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 : +82-2-7...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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Agency List Agency list 2023.07.03 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 : +82-2-7...

VOL.60 / 2023.07

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Where the Children from the Book Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play

Book Trip [Into the Book ①] Where the Children from the BookChildren of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play Mansuk-dong, Dong-gu, Incheon: Time Travel with the Book 2023.08.07 Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village The Kwaeng-i-bu-ri Village is the oldest poor neighborhood in Incheon. (...)Over the years, the village turned from a forest of pine trees into a factory townfull of smokestacks and shanty houses. Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village (Changbi Publishers), published in 2000, is a children’s book featuring the life of twin sisters Sook-Hee (the main character) and Sook-Ja living in a poor daldongne neighborhood. The word “daldongne” means a poor village situated on the slopes of a hill in Korea, and it is said to have deriven from its proximity to the moon. It is widely known that Kim Jung-Mi, the writer, had once run a s...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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The 2023 Seoul International Book Fair and the K-Book Copyright Market

Topic The 2023 Seoul International Book Fair andthe K-Book Copyright Market On-site Report on Hot Issues in the Copyright Market 2023.07.03 The “National Book Fair,” which began in 1954, was upgraded to an international book fair in 1995 and became the “Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF).” I joined the publishing industry in 1995 as a copyright agent, and attended the SIBF for the first time in the same year. It was named an “international” book fair, but there were a few booths from overseas publishers as well as other international publishers or agents that participated as individual guests. Time has passed since then, and this year, the SIBF marked its 29th anniversary.Hosted by the Korean Publishers Association, this year’s SIBF was successfully held in COEX located in Samsung-dong, Seoul, over five days from June 14 to 18. With a history of almost half a century, it proved itself as the hub of the Asian publishing market, and a pillar that pla...

VOL.60 / 2023.07

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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 : +82-2-7...

VOL.59 / 2023.06

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Travelers Return After COVID-19

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...

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