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South Korea’s Key Publishing Related Organizations

South Korea’s Key Publishing Related Organizations   2019.07.08   In South Korea's publishing industry, there are many private organizations. Inside these organizations are members who work for competing businesses, but inside the groups they seek interests and order for the greater good. They also help pass on voices from inside the industry to a larger audience. The following are organizations key to South Korea's publishing industry linked to production, distribution, sales and research. The most representative of publishers' groups would be the Korean Publishers Association, founded in 1947. Inside the group are all kinds of publishers, big and small. So far the association has worked towards creating an order for distribution within South Korea as well as resolving several issues related to the publishing environment. It has also been a driving force for projects aimed at developing the industry on a whole. The association has acted as a window for book de...
  • VOL.13 / 2019.07
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A Diagnosis of South Korea's E-book Market Amid Subscription Competition

A Diagnosis of South Korea's E-book Market Amid Subscription Competition   2019.06.10   On May 9, the Korean Publishers Association held a seminar on current issues that affect the digital publishing industry called 'The Attack of Netflix, Fixed Price System for Books Challenged'. Participants at the seminar debated whether e-book subscription services and the fixed price system for books can co-exist in South Korea. Subscription services refer to online services where members can read an unlimited number of books online after paying low monthly fees, like Netflix. Meanwhile, South Korea's fixed price regulations for book sales prevent bookstores from lowering prices beyond what publishers demand in order to protect small-to-medium sized bookstores and publishers. With the rise of these monthly subscription services, worries have been growing they may shake up the entire fixed price system altogether.The seminar kicked off with an introduction from Chung Won-ok, a senior...
  • VOL.12 / 2019.06
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Publishing Strategies Targeting the MZ Generation

Topic   Publishing Strategies Targeting the MZ Generation   2024.02.19   Disappearance of books and/or readers   Is it the disappearance of books, or is it the disappearance of book readers? Or is it both?According to the National Reading Survey released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in South Korea in 2021, the “annual comprehensive reading rates (the percentage of people who read or listened to at least one paperback, e-book, or audiobook)” for adults aged 19 and older was only 47.5%. That is, 1 in 2 adults did not read or listen to a single book during the year. The belief that literacy is proportional to the amount of reading has become a myth. With a basic illiteracy rate of 1%, Korea boasts the highest literacy levels in the world, but the number of books read is plummeting year after year. In other words, it is the age where people no longer read books.However, despite the pessimistic outlook for the publishing ...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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AI is Changing Our Everyday Life

Special Project   [Book × AI] AI is Changing Our Everyday Life   2024.02.19     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.     A new era is open with AI: What are the jobs newly born, and how should we make use of the technology?   47 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know     There are books with a table of contents that just make you want to read the rest of the story. One such book is 47 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know ...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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2nd Week, October 2023

Best Sellers   2nd Week, October 2023 Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2023.11.06   In October 2023, books in the fields of economics, business, and self-help dominated the best seller lists of Korea’s largest online bookstores, indicating that readers are preparing for the year ahead. For example, in addition to Trend Korea 2024 and Sayno Love, already on the best seller list, Forecast of the Times: Era of Nuclear Individuals joined the ranks. The book Forecast of the Times: Era of Nuclear Individuals by Song Gil-Young, who reads and interprets the human mind through big data, predicts the future based on the data accumulated so far, and, as the title suggests, focuses on “nuclear individuals” as the main keyword. If you are curious about who nuclear individuals are and what choices we should make for the future, this book is a good read before the year ends.Meanwhile, another keyword to look for in October’...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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The Most Korean is the Most Global

Export Case   The Most Korean is the Most Global   2024.02.19   It is the era of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. Korea’s soft power - movies, dramas, cuisine, literature, and more - is shaking up the world. Following the movie “Parasite,” “Squid Game” and “Pachinko,” which were released on global OTT platforms, global curiosity about Korea expanded. Korea is now one of the major tourist destinations frequented by people from all over the world, and Korean food such as ramen, kimbap, and tteokbokki are considered hip and trendy, and have gained immense popularity around the world. People around the world looking to understand Korea a little better are now seeking to read Korean literature and share Korean sentiments. In response to this demand, major publishers around the world have been actively scanning Korean titles for their markets. The enthusiasm could be felt firsthand at the Korean Pavilion installed at the Frankfurt Book Fair held last Oct...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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Yoojin Lee

Korean Translator   Yoojin Lee   2023.11.06   Profile   Yoojin Lee is a Korean-English translator. She received her bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Ewha Womans University. She earned her master’s degree in translation studies from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Ewha Womans University. She won the Commendation Award in fiction for translating the novel Boy Meets Girl by Kim Do-eon at the 39th Korean Literature Translation Award held by the Korean Times. She embraces a wide range of subjects, and particularly has a passion for literature, humanities and social sciences, and children’s literature. • Contact: krazylois@naver.com   Education   • Earned M.A. in translation studies, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Ewha Womans University ...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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The Jolly Shelter and Home of the Mangwon-dong Brothers!

Book Trip   [Into the Book ⑦] The Jolly Shelter and Home of the Mangwon-dong Brothers! Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul: The Harmony of the Old and the New   2024.02.19   Mangwon-dong Brothers       Being invited to someone’s house is like being invited to see the real inside of them.(...) Years passed, and we ended up living together in an 8-pyeong room on a rooftop.     Mangwon-dong Brothers (Namu Bench) is the first novel by writer Kim Ho-Yeon, who made readers in Korea and abroad both cry and laugh with her book The Uncanny Convenience Store (Namu Bench). It won the Excellence Award at the 9th World Literature Award and was later made into a play, proving both its literary value and popularity. The book Mangwon-dong Brothers is a full-length novel about four impoverished men who start an unusual live-in relationship in a rooftop room in Mangw...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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Korean Picture Books Today

Topic   Korean Picture Books Today Closing the 2023 Korea Picture Book Award   2024.01.02   In November 2023, the winners of the first Korea Picture Book Award, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), were announced. Eight titles and publishers were honored in the grand prize, special prize, and rookie prize categories for fiction and nonfiction. Considering the size of the prize and the diverse range of winning titles, it was a good start for a new award system. The “picture book” genre is not yet fully established in the Korean publishing industry. For example, in large bookstores, “picture books” are placed in a subcategory of the pre-school category. However, the fact that we were able to clearly recognize “picture books” as a single artistic genre and reach a consensus in the screening process to organize an “award for picture books” is thanks to the strong growth of th...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature

Export Case   Enjoy the Taste and Scent of Korea With Genre Literature   2024.01.02   February 11, 2024, will mark exactly 30 years since Korean writer Djuna uploaded his first short story to an online SF community on the PC communication service “HiTEL.” The story was titled A Butterfly that Traveled Back in Time, and it was Djuna’s first official release. Since his debut in 1994, Djuna has published a total of 170 novels, and it is almost 200 if you count his unpublished works as well. He is the most prolific and longest-running science fiction writer in Korea. Djuna is like a cornerstone of Korean SF, with many SF writers confessing to being his fans, saying that they were greatly influenced by him. However, it was only recently that Djuna was introduced to the international audience. It was in 2019 that the short stories The Second Nanny and The Bloody Battle of the Broccoli Plain were published separately as ebooks, audiobooks, and paperbacks in English-s...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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