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Special Project [Book × Plant] Korea is Now All About Plants! 2024.04.01 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. Childhood dreams inspired by the beauty of plants My first dream in life was to be a botanist. I was only 6 years old - a kindergartener. It was thanks to my mother, who loved to grow plants, and my father, who loved nature so much that he took me on trips whenever he could. The fact that I grew up in the countryside and was always around plants was also one of the reasons why I wanted to be a ...

VOL.69 / 2024.04

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Why We Read Fiction

One-Liner Quotes Why We Read Fiction Pharmacist’s Pick 2024.04.01 Park Hool-Ryung is a pharmacist and writer who runs “A Bookstore That Is Yet Dependent.” With the goal of “Book & Fun,” which means that the fun of reading books shouldn’t be missed, the writer grows with readers and customers. (Instagram: @a_dok_bang) Most countries in the world today are deeply concerned about their aging populations. It is ironic that while we are living in an era of prosperity, benefiting from industrialization and advanced technology, the number of young people who will take the lead in the country is shrinking. This is also true for Korea, a country with a rapidly aging population. This often leads to conflicts between the young and the old, as they have different goals. This uncomfortable reality makes me wonder what it would be like if it were fiction. The world of fiction either nakedly shows reality or distorts it. This is why we r...

VOL.69 / 2024.04

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Recent Status of Korean Webnovels

Knowledge Recent Status of Korean Webnovels 2024.04.01 The size and the current status of the market The webnovel industry, which was officially recognized in 2013 with the NAVER Webnovel Contest, has nearly doubled every year since then - expanding to a market worth 1 trillion won by 2024. It has firmly established itself as one of the pillars of the Korean content market alongside webtoons. Media mixing is actively taking place through the content value chain centered on Kakao and Naver, and this potential has attracted many creators to take on the challenge of writing webnovels full of dreams.According to the “2022 Status Survey of the Webnovel Industry” published by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) in 2023, the number of webnovel users in Korea was estimated at 5.87 million, and th...

VOL.69 / 2024.04

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Warm Hope in a Cold City

Book Trip [Into the Book ⑧] Warm Hope in a Cold City Jongno-gu, Seoul: What’s still with us today 2024.03.11 One Hundred Shadows As I thought Mujae was somehow looking shady when he said, “Don’t follow shadows,” I strained my eyes and looked again, and there was a sunshower falling like a spider’s web. Hwang Jung-Eun’s first full-length novel, One Hundred Shadows (Changbi), is the story of Eunkyo and Mujae, two characters working in an electronics store in the center of the city. The cold cityscape and the old, desolate electronics mall are the backdrop of the novel, but the two protagonists’ youthful love story is what makes this novel so appealing, with just the right amount of heaviness and lightness. Also, the story of “shadows” in the title is not to be missed - the unrealistic occurrence of shadows rising up on their own is v...

VOL.68 / 2024.03

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#Memory

#K-Book #Memory KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.11.03 Your Garden 1. Publication Details Title | Your GardenAuthor | Na HyunjungPublisher | GloyeonPublication Date | 2021-06-24ISBN | 9788992704847No. of pages | 58Dimensions | 209*308 2. Book Intro Breathing a story into a dry, empty path.A story of bricks in the city sidewalk, with varying shapes and colors. Although the author brings the sidewalk’s life into a place, not of grand creation, but still just a simple path we walk on. Mundane things, a ball, a piece of grass, a cat, and a sewer cover are all things we usually see, but as the writer focuses on these objects, they become more than just objects, but characters with stories and life. The black-and-white pictures drawn with a scratchy pencil are like a potion that leads the reader on a story...

VOL.88 / 2025.11

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#Tradition

#K-Book #Tradition KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.10.02 A Round of Tightrope Walking 1. Publication Details Title | A Round of Tightrope WalkingAuthor | MinhaPublisher | GloyeonPublication Date | 2022-11-25ISBN | 9788992704724No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 165*280 2. Book Intro A Picture book that depicts our tightrope walking through synaesthesia.Korean tightrope walking, which is listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, is regarded as a comprehensive art, beyond just showing acrobatic talent like tightrope walking in other countries, but through the jokes and interactions between the tightrope walkers and the clowns, and the performance of Six Samhyeon Instruments. ‘A round of tightrope walking’ captures these characteristics of our tightrope walking in a picture book whilst taking into the mo...

VOL.87 / 2025.10

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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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#Economy

#K-Book #Economy KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.09.04 The Hidden Economics of Convenience Stores 1. Publication Details Title | The Hidden Economics of Convenience StoresAuthor | Goyangi Dabang (Cat Caf?); Jeong YeonsookPublisher | Bear Books Inc.Publication Date | 2023-06-30ISBN | 9791158364113No. of pages | 120Dimensions | 165*220 2. Book Intro The Hidden Economics of Convenience Stores is an educational book designed to be easy and engaging and aims to introduce young readers to the economic concepts hidden within the familiar setting of a convenience store.The story revolves around Baeknyangi, a white cat with a profound love of convenience stores. Whether it’s just to gaze at the salmon roll cake that he longs to buy or to complete a school assignment, Baeknyangi has made it a habit to stop by the convenience store every day. His frequent visits l...

VOL.86 / 2025.09

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Summer, Between the Ideal (isang; 理想) and the Abnormal (isang; 異常)

Best Sellers Summer, Between the Ideal (isang; 理想) andthe Abnormal (isang; 異常) Bestseller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of July, 2025 2025.08.04 Summer in Korea is a time when weather extremes intersect, with heat waves followed by rainy seasons. This is why summer vacations are a time when people look forward to escaping both the heat and the rain. We all dream of perfect vacation plans and ideal (isang; 理想) summer days, but with the escalating abnormal (isang; 異常) climate events, expecting weather similar to the past may be more of a fantasy than a reality. In between the ideal and the abnormal, we have compiled a list of the top travel books of July, along with some of the overall bestsellers ahead of the summer vacation season.While the overall top 10 bestsellers in July remained largely unchanged from last month, Choi Tae-Sung’s Korean History Exam 2025: Advanced (Levels 1, 2, and 3) Vol. 1 and 2 rose t...

VOL.85 / 2025.08

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#Vacation

#K-Book #Vacation KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2025.08.04 The Summer of a Mole 1. Publication Details Title | The Summer of a MoleAuthor | Kim SangkeunPublisher | SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.Publication Date | 2022-08-05ISBN | 9791160949599No. of pages | 56Dimensions | 221*247 2. Book Intro A friendly saying by grandma opens the beginning of the summer in a long time. In the forest where a mole family lives, many animals are ready for the summer vacation. The mole also leaves his boring work ? digging the ground- behind, and heads towards somewhere for vacation. Then, he meets his first destiny under the shade of a tree. He thinks he is sitting on the ground, but it turns out to be the back of a turtle. The sweet mole has decided the sea is today’s destination as the turtle is accompanying him to help him...

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