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2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award Winner Suzy Lee's Books

Topic   2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award Winner Suzy Lee's Books Lee Suzy, Children’s Book Artist, is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award   2022.04.04   On March 21, 2022, the winner of the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award (HCAA) given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) was announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Lee Suzy from the Republic of Korea was the recipient for illustration of this prestigious award.       The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the international prize of distinction that is regarded as the Nobel Prize for children’s literature. It is the highest international honor given every other year to a living author and an illustrator of children’s books whose complete works have made “an important, lasting contribution to children’s literature.” The criteria used to assess the nominations include aesthetic and literary quality as well as the freshness an...
  • 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 ?] 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 pag...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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Art Library Of Uijeongbu

Book Trip   [Beautiful Library in Korea ①] Art Library Of Uijeongbu A Public platform serving as both library and art gallery   2022.02.14     Recently, libraries that offer more than reading experiences have been springing up across the country. Art Library of Uijeongbu, opened in November 2019, combined the different areas of library and art gallery, boasting a great deal of beauty and practicality both in the exterior and interior of the building. The library plays the roles of not just a library but an art gallery in Uijeongbu city which hasn’t run its own art gallery before. The opening was great news for residents longing for cultural infrastructure. When searching for art reference materials, residents were often reliant on reading rooms in art museums such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art, where lending and accessing books were challenging. But, the opening of the Art Library of Uijeongbu now allows anyone to borrow ...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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Yellowpig

Korean Publishers   Yellowpig Picture books are good friends for children   2024.05.07   What was the first book that you ever read in your life? You might not be able to remember its title, writer, and story, but you will know one thing for sure - the book you eagerly followed with your eyes in your parents’ arms was a picture book. For children, picture books are not just the first books they encounter in their lives, but also good friends they will keep for the rest of their lives. Through picture books, they meet, interact with, and grow with the wider world. The world of picture books has been expanding in depth and breadth, not only for children that communicate through pictures, but also for people of all ages. Yellowpig is a publisher specializing in picture books that transcend age, language, and culture - making them a good friend for everyone. Following is an interview with Yellowpig, a publisher constantly growing while publishing pictur...
  • VOL.70 / 2024.05
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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, We...
  • VOL.45 / 2022.04
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2021 Translation Grants for Publications (Results)

Info   2021 Translation Grants for Publications (Results)   2022.03.07                     The Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) has carried out the “2021 Translation Grants for Publications” to lay out the groundwork for the export of Korean publications, providing translation grants necessary for publishing books abroad.   A total of 7 languages were supported. Upon review, 35 publications suitable for the target country and the language market were selected.   Translation Grants DetailsSupported Languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Vietnamese, ThaiApplication Period: March 28 ? April 14, 2021Screening Result: 35 in total (30 publishers)Grants: Translation costs (up to KRW 15 million per title for translation and review)   The granted works signed a copyright export contract with overseas markets, includin...
  • VOL.44 / 2022.03
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Winners of the 2022 Bologna Ragazzi Award

Info   Winners of the 2022 Bologna Ragazzi Award Summer and Father’s big hands   2022.03.07                     Two Korean picture books were chosen as the winners of this year’s Bologna Ragazzi Award in Fition and Non-Fition categories at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair scheduled to be held from March 21 to 24.Author Suzy Lee’s Summer (BIR Publishing Co., Ltd.) won in the Fiction 2022-Special Mention category and THE YULU LINEN (Bear Books Inc.) was claimed the first place in the Fiction 2021-Special Mention category. Also, author Choi Deok-Kyu’s Father’s big hands (YUN Edition) was selected as the winner in the Non-Fiction 2022-Special Mention category.   * Go to K-Book Trends Vol. 37 ? Interview with writer Lee Suzy* BOLOGNARAGAZZI AWARD - ALL THE 2022 WINNERS    
  • 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 book...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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Jumping Books Publishing House

Korean Publishers   Jumping Books Publishing House The joy of jumping into books   2024.03.11   The adolescent period shines brightly because it’s a time when the doors are wide open to whatever you can dream of. And Jumping Books Publishing House, which publishes books for teenagers, has also been shining in a variety of fields, including fiction, non-fiction, humanities, and liberal arts. In addition to publishing books for teenagers, Jumping Books Publishing House is special in that it is a one-man publishing company. It is because the publisher’s CEO does not fear changes and has a love for books - as a film major, he has moved from a film company to a broadcasting station to a publisher, and from an editor to the head of a one-man publishing company. Following is an interview with Lee Hye-Jae, the CEO of Jumping Books Publishing House, who has already published 17 titles since its founding in 2021, enjoying the joy of “jumping into books,” i...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Amber Hyun Jung Kim

Korean Translator   Amber Hyun Jung Kim   2022.01.03   PROFILE   Amber Hyun Jung Kim is a freelance Korean-English conference interpreter and translator based in Seoul, Korea. She earned her B.A. in political science at Seoul National University and graduated from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Graduate School for Interpretation and Translation with a degree in conference interpretation.Amber has interpreted in over 1,500 international conferences and meetings for both public and private sector clients in subject areas ranging from policy, legal action, business and finance, IT, energy, trade, and others. For nearly 20 years, Amber has been translating fiction and literary works; she has received the 2014 Korea Times Modern Literature Translation Award Commendation Prize in Fiction as well as multiple Literature Translation Institute of Korea grants. Amber is a regularly contributing translator for institutions such as LTI Korea a...
  • VOL.42 / 2022.01
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