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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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Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2025.11.03 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...

VOL.88 / 2025.11

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A Call for an Evolutionary Level of Imagination: Replacement of Dominant Species

Publishing Industry A Call for an Evolutionary Level of Imagination:Replacement of Dominant Species Current status of author management in Korea 2024.02.19 Korea’s Greenbook Agency (CEO Toni Shi-Hyoung Kim) was one of the earliest adopters of the concept of author management. It was originally founded in 2006 as an agency specializing in the international trade of publishing rights. All of its executives, including CEO Kim, are former publishing professionals or translators, and the company has completed more than 1,000 copyright deals. In 2017, the company launched its author management business by signing an exclusive contract with Kim Bo-Young, a major Korean SF writer. Since then, it has signed award-winning fiction and non-fiction writers such as Bora Chung, Djuna, Park Seo-Ryun, Kim Hyun-Jin, Shim Wan-Sun, and Kim Joo...

VOL.67 / 2024.02

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2023 Publishing Statistics & 2024 Publishing Market Outlook

Publishing Industry 2023 Trends in the Korean Publishing Market and 2024 Forecast 2024.01.02 2023 Trends: Growth in self-help, comics, and parenting books As the COVID-19 pandemic turned endemic in the spring of 2023, travel books saw a resurgence in popularity. The popularity of anime such as Slam Dunk has led to increased sales of manga, and popular YouTubers have joined the publishing market using manga characters. In addition, books by popular writers for grown-up readers, such as physicist Kim Sang-Wook, have been transformed into children’s educational comics. * K-Book Trends Vol. 42 ? Go to the interview of writer Kim Sang-Wook In addition, despite recording the world’s lowest birth rate, the popularity of books on raising children in Korea has increased. While the market for marriage,...

VOL.66 / 2024.01

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Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2025.10.02 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...

VOL.87 / 2025.10

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A Nation of Youth

New Books A Nation of Youth Talking about our present and the future in the face of a super-aged society 2025.09.04 Half the population is elderly, the birth rate is plummeting, AI is competing with humans; and the near future is riddled with hate and discrimination. And yet, there exists a shadowed utopia - Sycamore Island, where the world’s super-rich seniors gather. Though built for the elderly, it is also a dream destination for the young. It is because working for wealthy seniors means a life of leisure. Nara, a 29-year-old aspiring actor, who hopes to make her dream come true on the island, is one of them. “To reach old age with wealth intact?that is what society calls respectable. Whether or not it deserves respect, most admired elders have met that condition.” - from the book By chance, Nara becomes a counselor at a senior welfare facility?and g...

VOL.86 / 2025.09

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2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Fiction

Publishing Policy 2020-2022 Bestsellers: Korean Fiction 2023.10.04 Bestsellers in Korean Fiction from 2020 to 2022Let’s take a look at which books were loved by readers, as well as those that were noteworthy in each year! 2020 1 Dallergut Dream Department Store 2 Almond 3 If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light 3 I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day 5 School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung ...

VOL.63 / 2023.10

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The End of Summer, or the Beginning of Change

Best Sellers The End of Summer, or the Beginning of Change Bestseller Trends in the Three Biggest Online Bookstoresin Korea for the 2nd week of August, 2025 2025.09.04 By mid-August, students’ summer vacations come to an end, and the holiday season for adults begins to wind down. People feel “a sense of reward for having endured the summer heat,” while looking forward to the cool weather of autumn. Yet with climate change and the recurring notion that “this year may be the coolest summer we will have,” the end of summer brings not only relief but also unease. The August bestsellers reflect this ambivalence, featuring both titles that hold steady in the rankings and others that signal the start of change.On the overall bestseller list, Sung Hae-Na’s Honmono continues to firmly hold the No. 1 spot. At the same time, the debut novel Grapefruit Apricot Club by Han Roro?a Korean singer-songwriter who debuted in 2022?draws attention. The novel, which explor...

VOL.86 / 2025.09

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Agency list

Agency List Agency list 2025.09.04 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 : +82-2-707-21...

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