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Korean Publishing Industry's Crisis and Its Future

Publishing Industry   Korean Publishing Industry's Crisis and Its Future   2022.01.03   The Korean publishing industry seems to be facing one of its biggest crises as the new year 2022 approaches. Last year, Korea's 2nd largest book wholesale distributor, Interpark Songin, proceeded with insolvency, and the 3rd largest bookstore Bandi & Luni's (Seoul Book Center), is to be under corporate rehabilitation. Seoul Book Center was expected to go through the procedure considering its unhealthy financial status. Nevertheless, the expectation being realized brought chaos to many partnered publishing companies. From a macro view, how should we interpret the situation faced by the publishing industry? Before we think about the current situation, let's see how big players Interpark Songin and Seoul Book Center came to crumble.   Interpark Songin and Bandi & Luni's news stirred many publishing companies.   June 2020, Korea's 2nd largest book whole...
  • VOL.42 / 2022.01
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The Current State of Subscription-Based Services of Korea’s Published Content

Publishing Industry   The Current State of Subscription-Based Services of Korea’s Published Content   2021.10.05   Mobile phones provide convenience as they can be used to write or read while on the move. There have been quite a lot of changes in how books, music, movies, dramas, games, and other content are created and consumed. There has also been an increase in the different types of content distribution models that use a variety of smart devices and social network systems. The major examples of this would be short-form content, which you can use for a short period, and subscriptions for sale, through which you can have unlimited access to content depending on the subscription period. The content industry is quickly transferring from a generation of “owning” to “consuming” worldwide. With the rapid increase of consumers of many contents due to the COVID-19 pandemic, renting content and subscribing to content has successfully settled as popular mass cont...
  • VOL.39 / 2021.10
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How Many Earths Do We Need to Live Like We Do Today?

New Books   How Many Earths Do We Need to Live Like We Do Today? The future of the world as seen through movies!   2024.12.02                     Spoiler alert!At times, movies capture phenomena more accurately and pointedly than documentaries. The future of humanity is no exception. This is a book for teenagers curious about what the future of the world will be!   The book, How Many Earths Do We Need to Live Like We Do Today? explores solutions for our future through familiar movies like “Mad Max,” “Minority Report,” and “Interstellar.” Let’s build the brainpower to think about the current state of humanity and the progress of technological advancements through 10 topics and 10 movies!This book intriguingly describes modern society through abundant sources.   “The fact that artificial intelligence reflects human bias could be an...
  • VOL.77 / 2024.12
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Agency list

Agency List   Agency list   2024.12.02   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 : +82-2-707-21...
  • VOL.77 / 2024.12
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Facilitation of Sub-rights and Their Markets

Publishing Industry   Facilitation of Sub-rights and Their Markets Plays, Films, Merchandising Goods, Etc.   2021.09.06   As Korea’s soft power expands, more people in the world are taking an interest in Korean culture. The best leaders of Korea’s soft power are BTS, director Bong Joon-Ho who has presented various movies including “Parasite,” and actress Youn Yuh-Jung’s achievement through the movie “Minari.” The values of Korean pop culture are growing, and many people worldwide are sharing Korean culture. Such a phenomenon implies that the opportunities and spaces for sharing Korean culture worldwide develop simultaneously at a rapid pace. It was, therefore, a natural result that people began to pay more attention to Korean publishing content ? the source of the OSMU (once source, multi-use) ? in addition to the phenomenon. All this means that it has become a reality that the number of different usage cases of sub-rights based on Korean publication con...
  • VOL.38 / 2021.09
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Current Status of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (BookNet Korea)

Publishing Industry   Current Status of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (BookNet Korea) Start-Challenge-Change-Global   2021.08.02   In terms of the market volume, Korea is the 6th largest publishing powerhouse in the world, following the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and Great Britain, who are leaders of the global publishing market, publishing more than 65 thousand titles each year. Various excellent K-books have been recently mesmerizing international readers alongside K-pop, K-drama, and K-movies as well.   Start   However, let’s look into the environment surrounding the distribution of publications in Korea. Information exchanges among publishers, distributors, and local bookstores are not active, hampering systematic marketing activities. The reality in the distribution part is failing to catch up with the advancement of the publishing market. Also, as publishers, distributors, bookstores, and libraries set up their ow...
  • VOL.37 / 2021.08
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The Rise of Literary Agencies

The Rise of Literary Agencies   2021.06.07   There are not many literary agencies in Korea. Most of the publishers prefer working directly with authors over cooperating with agencies. It was common for publishers to think that it is safer to pay more of an advance to overseas writers who have already finished writing their manuscript or are expected to finish them soon rather than domestic writers who have not yet completed their manuscript.The most significant characteristic of the Korean publishing industry would be “diversity.” The system in which up to 6 thousand small- and medium-sized publishers make more than 80 thousand physical titles each year has greatly diversified the types of books published in Korea, but the limited average sales of each title was an expected outcome. In such an environment, it is difficult to invest a sufficient amount of development fee for each title. Hence, even though the literary agent succeeded in discovering fine manuscripts or o...
  • VOL.35 / 2021.06
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Agency list

Agency List   Agency list   2024.11.04   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.76 / 2024.11
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Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers

Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers Service and Content Providers in Busy Days with Market’s Growing Interest in Audiobooks   2021.04.05     In the previous March edition, we talked about the audiobook industry's current status in Korea and its prospects in 2021. Consumers and service providers play a pivotal role in expanding the market and business opportunities. Furthermore, it is meaningful to witness how they interact with each other in the audiobook ecosystem contributes to the industry’s healthy growth and maturity. In this April’s edition, let’s find what behaviors audiobook consumers have shown to the market.   Recently-made audio content enabling interaction among provider and users, providing a new-level of “experience”.   As the pandemic is not showing any signs of abating, more people are enjoying audiobooks at home instead of going to bookstores or libraries. In the previous edition, we introduced how “Wela...
  • VOL.33 / 2021.04
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1st Week, September 2024

Best Sellers   1st Week, September 2024 Best seller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.10.07   It’s the first week of September in Korea, where the fall has technically arrived, yet the summer heat hasn’t entirely left. With Korean fiction dominating the top of the best seller lists, it seems that readers are eager to spend the fall with books. The book If We Look at the Same Star One Day, which topped the best seller lists of all three major online bookstores, was written by actor and author Cha In-Pyo. Featuring the story of women forced into sexual slavery, it was also invited to the 1st Oxford Korean Literature Festival. Having been selected as a must-read book at Oxford University, it has become known in Korea as a work that first became known overseas. Korean readers have recently been immersed in the book's story, which reads like a movie.Following behind were Kim Ae-Ran’s full-length novel One of Them is a Lie and Jeong Yoo-J...
  • VOL.75 / 2024.10
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