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South Korea's National Institute of Ecology - Known for publishing content acclaimed worldwide

South Korea's National Institute of Ecology - Known for publishing content acclaimed worldwide   2019.08.05   South Korea's National Institute of Ecology operated by the country's Ministry of Environment calls itself 'another little Earth' with its exhibits of various plants and animals from countries around the world, including South Korea. The institute also publishes a diverse range of books on the environment for everyone from children to experts. Recently, the institute exported publishing rights of 13 books to Vietnam and Turkey, and some of them have already been translated and introduced to the local markets there. This year, seven books including The Facts Within the Fairy Tales: Aesop's Stories of Nature will be released in Vietnam, while another called Exploring the World of Ant will be sold in Turkey. K-Book Trends spoke with the institute's publishing arm, NIE PRESS, to hear about the agency's book export cases and their passion for content.      ...
  • VOL.14 / 2019.08
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Author Kang Gyeong-su

Author Kang Gyeong-su In hopes his honest stories will reach readers   2019.11.04   The book The Stories Shouldn't Be True (Sigong Junior) was awarded a Ragazzi Award for non-fiction at the 2011 Bologna Children's Book Fair. This book, like its title, calmly tells the horrific story of some children's situations that seem like lies but are happening in reality. Explaining the motive behind the book, the author said he was incredibly shocked one day while watching a documentary to find children in terrible situations in other parts of the world that was beyond his imagination. K-Book Trends met with author Kang Gyeong-su who was compelled to tell their stories in a book.After making his name known as a picture book author through The Stories Shouldn't Be True, Kang has been continuously working on picture books, and from 2017, he has been publishing his Code Name (Sigong Junior) series. The Code Name series is a spy series loved by both children and their parents and ...
  • VOL.17 / 2019.11
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An Offbeat Trip to Jeju Island

Let’s Try   An Offbeat Trip to Jeju Island   2023.08.07   [Event]   Let’s Try introduces various useful, practical books published in Korea every month.Also, don’t miss gift events related to the introduced books!   Simply click on the link below to enter the event! Let’s Try!   The Best Jeju Trip- Written by Jang Eun-Jung, published by Vitabooks     The best Jeju travel guides written by a travel curator.Take a trip to Jeju Island like no other!   Jeju Island is one of Korea’s most popular tourist destinations for its splendid natural scenery and various things to enjoy. The Best Jeju Trip is a travel guide for travelers to find the newest information about the island more easily and conveniently. It is a compact guide featuring all the travel spots the writer has curated, covering various themes like the Jeju ocean, mountains, exhibitions, and exper...
  • VOL.61 / 2023.08
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South Korean bestsellers in August

South Korean bestsellers in August Bestsellers at South Korea's biggest online bookstores, YES24 and Aladin   2019.09.09   As of the third week of August 2019, readers' interest in bilateral relations between South Korea and Japan peaked, largely attributed to a diplomatic rift between the two countries. As a result, Anti-Japan Tribalism rose to become the best-selling book at YES24 and second best-selling book at Aladin last month. Essay collection Why Travel ticked down to third and fourth place in the bestseller lists respectively, but it showed sustained popularity. Other genres that made the bestseller lists last month included novels, essay collections, comic books for children and exam preparation books. Among August bestsellers was a book that was published almost a year ago. Im Hong-taek's 90's Kids Are Coming was released in November last year and despite it not being a new book, it rapidly rose to the higher rungs of the bestseller lists. This was thanks to So...
  • VOL.15 / 2019.09
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Export Prospects of Korean Books

Export Prospects of Korean Books KPIPA’s Choice for Supporting Abstract · Sample Translation   2019.09.09   Fantasy Fixer 1. Publication Details Imprint | BIR Publishing Co., Ltd.Title | Fantasy FixerAuthor | Kang MinjeongIllustrator | Kim ReahyeonGenre | children’s storyFormat | 130×190Binding | Hard coverPages | 232pagesISBN | 9788965483755   2. Contact Name | Claire YangPhone |  +82-2-515-2000Email | claire@bir.co.krURL | http://bir.co.kr/   3. Marketing Information Keyword | children’s fiction; fantasy fiction; mysteryTarget Readership | age 6 to 12   4. About the Author Author - Kang MinjeongKang Minjeong made her debut as a writer with Fantasy Fixer and Fantasy Fixer 2: Suspicious Creator. Illustrator - Kim ReahyeonKim Reahyeon previously wrote A Litter Bit of Change and illustrated Cleaning Out My Wardrobe on Weekends.   5. About the Book Winner of No.1 Marshmallow Fi...
  • VOL.15 / 2019.09
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South Korea Book Exports

South Korea Book Exports Time Blossom and Magic Cafe That Cooks Dreams sold abroad   2017.11.01   In this month's issue, we gladly announce two South Korean books have been successfully sold abroad. The first would be time blossom, a heart-warming story for adolescent girls going through physical and psychological changes during puberty. The second is Magic Cafe That Cooks Dreams, a fairy tale on self-development that can plant hope and courage into children and teenagers who have unlimited potential.   Kyung-sun Lee's Time Blossom Sold Into France     Cover art for Time Blossom: Girl into Woman   Kyung-sun Lee is a design professor at Hankyong National University in South Korea and her book for adolescent girls Time Blossom was sold at the Frankfurt international book fair in Germany to be translated into French. The book is a beautiful piece of work with the subtitle, 'Girl into Woman' and is the perfect gift for girls reaching puberty from their ...
  • VOL.6 / 2017.11
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South Korea's October Bestsellers

South Korea's October Bestsellers Aggregate data as of the third week of September   2017.10.10   The prolonged rule of bestsellers     Young-ha Kim's Memoir of a Murderer has topped the bestseller list for two consecutive weeks. As the film adaptation of the novel gains momentum, interest in the original novel has spiked. As a result, Kiju Lee’s Temperature of Language lost some ground, but Lee's Dignity of Words rose two spots, enjoying steady popularity. Also, books like I Have Decided to Live as Me, A Lesson in Self-Eeteem and Miracles of the Namiya General Store also inched up, enjoying more time on the bestseller list. This was seen as reflecting readers' wanting to catch up on bestsellers that are guaranteed good reads over the long Chuseok holiday.     'News Effect' from award announcements, out of print books     Han Kang's Human Acts received new interest after news the novel had been awarded Italy's Malaparte Prize while Kwang...
  • VOL.5 / 2017.10
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Haemin Sunim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

Haemin Sunim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down #1 Bestseller on Amazon UK, #3 non-fiction seller in the Netherlands   2017.9.11   The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down     Haemin Sunim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down recently stayed at #1 on Amazon UK's bestseller list for three weeks, surprising many as it is rare for a South Korean collection of essays to gain so much popularity overseas. Even the editor who was in charge of putting the UK version of this book together had been taken by surprise at the book's success. In the United States, the book sold over 30,000 copies in two weeks, as readers sought a moment of rest in their busy everyday lives.It is not an easy feat for a South Korean book to be published abroad, moreover a collection of essays. Penguin Books and Random House, both major publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively, approached Suo Books which owns the publishing right in South K...
  • VOL.4 / 2017.09
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EunHaeng NaMu Publishing

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Fun and touching books, books on the ages and the future   2019.10.07   Stories still entice people's imaginations. We live in an age inundated by images and videos, but despite this, everything circles back to stories in books made of paper and letters. This might be the reason why books are continuously being created ever since humans created written characters. And EunHaeng NaMu Publishing has a special talent for making stories that leave readers wanting for more.     Hi. It's good to meet you through K-Book Trends. We are aware that EunHaeng NaMu Publishing has made many efforts in publishing many stories in the form of novels and essays. Could you introduce EunHaeng NaMu Publishing to our readers?   After our establishment in 1997, we have published some 700 liberal arts and general education books of many genres including history, philosophy and science from inside and outside the country with the motto, 'fun and touching books,...
  • VOL.16 / 2019.10
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The Online and Digital Marketing of South Korea's Publishing Industry

The Online and Digital Marketing of South Korea's Publishing Industry Current status of online, digital marketing and actual cases   2017.8.18   Previously, marketing related to publishing was all done in-store. The most effective way to manage this was to place materials where people would most go and where their eyes would focus most inside a store. However like all other industries in this day and age, offline channels are losing their effectiveness and book reviews, which were one of the most effective ways to market books in the past, are also losing their influence in line with printed materials. As B2B, B2C out-bound marketing tactics no longer work as they used to, everyone is now thinking about what to do about content marketing. The publishing industry is no exception.The core of content marketing is to create materials that are interesting or of value to potential customers and have the customers seek them out first. The first step to this would be understanding th...
  • VOL.3 / 2017.08
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