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2nd Week, May 2022

Best Sellers   2nd Week, May 2022 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.06.07   In May 2022, the five-year term of President Moon Jae-in came to an end. As he took office under nationwide attention, books about him and his term were published, and four of them ranked in the integrated list of bestsellers for the 2nd week of May. For example, Moon Jae-In’s Consolation, Top 100 Speeches of President Moon Jae-In, Five Years of President Moon Jae-In (2 volumes), and The Fate of Moon Jae-In (2 volumes) are all books that were published after the end of his term. Their ranks show how much Korean readers are interested in their now former president. In particular, Moon Jae-In’s Consolation is an essay where the former president candidly talks about his feelings going back to an “enlightened citizen” from a president, which ranked first in the integrated list of bestsellers.While books about former president Moon Jae-In have taken th...
  • VOL.47 / 2022.06
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2nd Week, April 2022

Best Sellers   2nd Week, April 2022 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.05.02   The entire world, not just Korea, has been eyeing a particular work throughout April. It is “Pachinko,” a drama produced by Apple TV+ in the US. Taking a painful moment in history as background, it tells the story of Koreans who immigrated to Japan. The drama is based on an original novel with the same title written by Lee Min-Jin, a Korean living in the US, whose work has become a bestseller chosen by New York Times in 2017. The growing popularity of this weekly drama has made the Pachinko series rank 1st and 2nd in all four major online bookstores in Korea. Beginning with the sentence, “The history has ruined us all, but it doesn’t matter,” Pachinko narrates the lives of Koreans who immigrated to Japan, who could not blend with the locals and belonged nowhere. While the book and the drama have become hot tickets, people around the world have ...
  • VOL.46 / 2022.05
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The Comeback of Best-selling Books is Thanks to Youtube

Topic   The Comeback of Best-selling Books is Thanks to Youtube   2022.03.07   “Try this.”It’s not some random street vendor tempting tourists to try Dalgona using Squid Game’s popularity. Winter Bookstore, one of the most popular BookTubers (Book + Youtuber) with 230K subscribers, posted a video introducing a book. Her influence is truly colossal.The book she introduced was Why Fish Don’t Exist, a non-fiction book written by US science journalist Lulu Miller. Let’s go back to the starting point to see how it became popular. The book was published on December 17, 2021, and it did not gain much popularity in Korea at first. Lulu Miller was a new science journalist and a writer just introduced to Korean readers. Though the book contains excellent writing and exciting stories, the one-person publisher, Gom Books, did not have the marketing power to make the book popular. Why Fish Don’t Exist was reviewed in major newspapers several times, but the public did n...
  • VOL.44 / 2022.03
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2nd Week, March 2022

Best Sellers   2nd Week, March 2022 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.04.04   March in Korea also means “a new start” to many. New season spring comes in March, and the new semester begins in March, too. So, most Koreans clean up and make changes to parts of their houses and organize the winter clothes piled up in the closet. The publishing industry saw changes as well, just like how nature changed its clothes from white snow to green sprouts, popular books that have made makeover changes to the cover page catch our eyes on the bestsellers’ list for this month. The cherry blossom edition specially produced to mark the sales record of 400 thousand copies of the book Uncanny Convenience Store by Kim Ho-Yeon – a beloved writer among Korean readers – grasped readers’ attention. Also, I am Thankful for Myself, an essay published in 2016, went through a total makeover of its cover page and content. Meanwhile, ...
  • VOL.45 / 2022.04
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Deep Insights into the World from the Great Scholar Lee O-Young’s Viewpoint

Special Project   [Korean Scholars ➁] Deep Insights into the World from the Great ScholarLee O-Young’s Viewpoint A creative life led by the trinity of reading, writing, and thinking   2022.02.14   A well-educated individual is called a scholar. Today's intellectual, professor Lee O-Young is a representative figure as a scholar. A literary critic, journalist, professor, and the first minister of culture, Lee O-young left a strong impression when he first appeared in the literary world. When he was a university student, literary pieces of Yi Sang, now known as a revolutionary writer, were not welcomed. Professor Lee drew attention in the literary world by announcing Theory on Yi Sang, which interprets Yi Sang's pieces from a new perspective. When authoritarianism was at its peak, he harshly criticized peers who idolized existing literary circles in a publication celebration. His criticism was written as an article Destruction of an idol and was published on a pa...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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2nd Week, February 2022

Best Sellers   2nd Week, February 2022 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.03.07   As of February 2022, Korean readers seem to be reading books of various genres, ranging from science to humanities, self-help, and business. Among the top 10 bestsellers jointly announced by four major online bookstores in Korea, three were fiction. The Book Uncanny Convenience Store (published in April 2021) and Dollagoot Dream Department Store (first volume published in July 2020, second volume published in July 2021) have been chosen by Korean readers ever since their publication. In particular, in the case of Dollagoot Dream Department Store, the compilation edition of the two volumes has also become a bestseller, proving its massive popularity. Also, Welcome to Bookstore Hyunamdong is a newly published title in January this year, but has been largely appraised by many readers. Moreover, as a winner of the e-book publication project led by Br...
  • VOL.44 / 2022.03
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3rd Week, January 2022

Best Sellers   3rd Week, January 2022 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.02.14   With the presidential election in March coming up, political and social books have been gaining much attention in Korean society since the first day of the new year. People’s heightened interest and expectations – or perhaps concerns – about the candidates seem to be reflected in the books. For example, Yoon Seok-Youl X File, which topped the bestsellers’ list of four major bookstores’ online markets, is a book that verifies candidate Yoon based on factual grounds. As a result, it has been at the center of readers’ attention, ranking first, even though the book is scheduled to be published in the third week of January. Also, Longing Doesn’t Happen to Anyone, an autobiography of former president Park Geun-Hye, and Goodbye, Lee Jae-Myung, a book about presidential candidate Lee Jae-Myung, joined the top 10 bestsellers.Meanwhile, the script bo...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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1st Week, December 2021

Best Sellers   1st Week, December 2021 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2022.01.03   It's already the first week of December, when winter vacation and Christmas are just around the corner. Three books from the children's genre joined the top 10 bestsellers list announced by four major online bookstores in Korea. The first one, Dalkong's Rice Cake Shop, is the fifth story of writer Kim Ri-Ri's Manbok's Rice Cake Shop series. This series has been included in a Korean language textbook for 3rd grades in elementary school and is writing a new record of children's books for elementary graders by selling more than 800 thousand copies. Also, two new books written by Hunhan Nammae (meaning "common siblings"), popular creators on YouTube with 2.26 million subscribers, put their names on the list as well. The book Common Siblings #9 features 12 episodes uploaded on YouTube through cartoons. Also, the book Common Siblings and the Win...
  • VOL.42 / 2022.01
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1st Week, November 2021

Best Sellers   1st Week, November 2021 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2021.12.06   It's the first week of November, and we're just one step ahead of the end of the year. And there's one book that has ranked first along with Trend Korea 2022, which has not conceded its place since last month – World History Read Backwards, written by Rhyu Si-Min, a bestseller writer. Since its first edition published in 1988, it has been a frequent favorite of Korean readers. This revised edition includes a complete change. The book World History Read Backwards, which has gone through a comprehensive revision since its first publication in the past century, contains events of the 20th century that could not be covered in the previous edition. As the "first edition" was created by writer Rhyu Si-Min who has "the power of story" that captivated a million readers, World History Read Backwards is still touching the hearts of Korean readers from 3...
  • VOL.41 / 2021.12
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2nd Week, October 2021

Best Sellers   2nd Week, October 2021 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2021.11.01   While literary works including the Dollagoot Dream Department Store series, I Do Not Bid Farewell, and I am a Shining, Little Star are steadily being loved by readers throughout the 2nd week of October, a new title from the field of business and money topped the bestsellers’ list. It is Trend Korea 2022, written by the Seoul National University Consumer Trend Analysis Center led by professor Kim Nan-Do. The Trend Korea series releases a new volume every second half of the year that provides an overview of the year ahead. The series, which started in 2009, has been ranking in the top tier among other bestsellers every time a new volume is released, having a significant influence on the Korean publishing industry and Korean society. The newest volume introduces the 10 keywords representing the consumption trends of the year 2022, starting with “...
  • VOL.40 / 2021.11
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