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#K-Book #School KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.03.11 School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung 1. Publication Details Title | School Nurse Ahn EunyoungAuthor | Chung SerangPublisher | Minumsa PublishingPublication Date | 2015-12-07ISBN | 9788937473098No. of pages | 280Dimensions | 128 * 188 2. Book Intro Chung Serang who has been beloved by readers for her unique imagination and heart-warming stories has published a new novel School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung. The story centers on a school nurse Ahn Eunyoung who is working at M private high school. Though neither her job nor her name is special, she is not just one of the school nurses. She always has a lot of work to do but carries out her duties as a school nurse faithfully. And at the same time, she dedicates herself to her vocation as an exorcist. Hong Inpyo, who is a Chi...

VOL.68 / 2024.03

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1st Week, December 2023

Best Sellers 1st Week, December 2023 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea 2024.01.02 It is the first week of December, 2023, and diligent readers in Korea seem to be preparing for the coming year already. Some popular self-help and humanities titles, such as Trend Korea 2024 and Sayno Love, continue to dominate the integrated bestseller lists with their insights on life, wisdom and wealth.In the meantime, the new titles by Korean literary legend Jo Jung-Rae - Golden Paper 1 and 2 - have been ranked in the top 10, filling the hearts of Korean fiction fans with excitement. Described as a “victory of the writer’s spirit,” Jo, who has devoted his entire life to literature, sharply examines the human desire for money. He captures the raw reality of our society, where people live and die for money, and raises a warning against the dehumanization of the world due to materialism. How about taking a look at the new novels ...

VOL.66 / 2024.01

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Hyeon Jeong Lee

Korean Translator Hyeon Jeong Lee 2024.01.02 PROFILE Hyeon Jeong Lee (she/her) is a freelance translator based in Champaign, Illinois, USA. She studied English Literature at Seoul National University and received her PhD in English at the University at Buffalo, USA. She was awarded a translation grant from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea for her English translation of Uhye Song’s White Bird, which she co-translated with Cynthia M. Childs. Lee also co-translated Sung-hee Yoon’s short story “The Duty of Loneliness” with Childs and published it in the Tammy Journal. Currently, she is writing a Korean-American history textbook with members of the Midwest Korean School Association. Lee’s major translation interests include literary fiction, academic pieces on Korean history or society, and literary criticism. CONTACT ? ...

VOL.66 / 2024.01

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#Winter

#K-Book #Winter KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.01.02 Snow 1. Publication Details Title | SnowAuthor | Yoon Jane, Oh SeungminPublisher | NURIMBOPublication Date | 2018-01-17ISBN | 9788958762157No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 210 * 260 2. Book Intro One snowy day, kids hurriedly run outside with excitement. But the main character from Snow only looks out the window. She has a disability and cannot walk. The grandmother in the story empathizes with her granddaughter and relays a story from her childhood about what she did on a snowy day.After the opening in Snow, we are immediately taken to the Grandmother’s childhood days; a story of one snowy day in the 1950s unfolds with beautiful pictures and text. As the granddaughter listens to her grandmother’s story, she slowly opens up her heart. She says she wan...

VOL.66 / 2024.01

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#Flower

#K-Book #Flower KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.12.04 A Flower, You Are as I Am 1. Publication Details Title | A Flower, You Are as I AmSubtitle | A Song of Flowers that think about PhilosophyAuthor | Dae-Youn, ChoPublisher | BOBBOOKPublication Date | 2021-06-23ISBN | 9791158587888No. of pages | 143Dimensions | 140 * 225 2. Book Intro This book titled A Flower, You Are as I Am is a beautiful collection of poems containing philosophical thinking of the poet for flowers. He wrote the poems with poetic words easy to read through a lyrical flower song by breaking the prejudice that philosophy can be regarded as difficult. The poet begins to draw his poems thinking ‘why did flowers come to us?’ When he sees grass flowers blooming that make the world beautiful and fragrant, he thinks that flowers tell ...

VOL.65 / 2023.12

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K-pop and the World!

Special Project [Book × Music] K-pop and the World! K-pop Seen in Books and the Changing Trend of Korean Popular Music 2023.08.07 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. K-pop, which has almost settled as a common noun like English Pop music, is defined as “young popular music of Korea since the 2000s,” or “music with an international appeal or global popularity.” K-pop is the ultimate composite of terms like “teens,” “dance music,” “overseas expansion,” and “idols.” While we can see the influence of J-po...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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Korean Theatre Director’s Pick

One-Liner Quotes Korean Theatre Director’s Pick 2023.05.02 The first book I would like to introduce is For Teenagers Asking About Peace and Reunification (Seohaemunjip), by Jung Wook-Sik. Writer Jung is a peace activist that studies a nuclear-free world and peace by establishing a peace network and spreading its values. The illustrations were drawn by illustrator JUNO.I have been making original plays based on history. I believe that you can find grounds for problems that remain unresolved today through history, and find clues for the future. In particular, the division of the Korean peninsula is one of the issues that I want to touch upon as a creator. In this context, this book provides easy explanations about things that we know vaguely about, or have no knowledge of, by starting with a question, “Can we become happier if the two Koreas are reunited?” Being familiar with something or things being obvious...

VOL.58 / 2023.05

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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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2nd Week, May 2023

Best Sellers 2nd Week, May 2023 Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea 2023.06.05 Books that deeply observe others’ lives and experiences caught the eyes of readers in May across various genres. First up, in the midst of the self-help book craze, writer Song Hee-Gu, who drew attention with the Story of Department Head Kim, Who Has a House in Seoul and Works at a Large Company (Seosamdok) series, returned with a new title My Rich High School Friend. Featuring a story where the protagonist reunites with a successful friend and gets a glimpse into the secrets of success in his life, the book freshly took the format of a novel while being a self-help book. Meanwhile, the book Lee Ji-Sung’s 10,000 Kilometers is non-fiction that talks about the journey of a North Korean defector, which is not commonly known among the public. This book tells the story of North Korean defectors’ harrowing escapes from their country through the eyes of ...

VOL.59 / 2023.06

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#SF

#K-Book #SF KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2023.04.03 The 2035 SF Mystery 1. Publication Details Title | The 2035 SF MysteryAuthor | Cheon Seonran et alPublisher | NabiclubPublication Date | 2022-01-14ISBN | 9791191029406No. of pages | 308Dimensions | 128 * 188 2. Copyright Contact Name | Bae Jeongeun - Greenbook Agency, Foreign RightsEmail | jeongeun@grb-agency.comPhone | +82-02-2676-2201 3. Book Intro A convergence of science fiction, a genre that contemplates the future of humankind at the forefront of the era, and a mystery that studies the depth of humanity. The project stemmed from the idea to have writers representing each of their fields imagine the near future where the aftermath of COVID-19 has come to an end. At its basic themes, the book illustrates what could happen if factors such as human clones, refugee accommodat...

VOL.57 / 2023.04

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