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Korean Literature in the American Market

Export Case   Korean Literature in the American Market   2024.04.01   I began translating Yun Ko-eun for a literary translation workshop in 2015, as an undergraduate at Princeton University. Little did I know at the time that ten years later, I would still be translating Yun’s work. The Disaster Tourist (Minumsa), her first novel to be published in English, came out with Counterpoint Press in 2020. Her short story collection Table for One (Munji Publishing)–Yun’s debut publication, which was released in Korea in 2008–will come out in English with Columbia University Press in April of this year. I’m now working on a third book translation of Yun’s forthcoming novel Art on Fire (EunHaeng NaMu Publishing), and I hope to continue working with her for years to come.   Korean (left) and English (right) covers of The Disaster Tourist     The publication timeline for my translations was affected by the ...
  • VOL.69 / 2024.04
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Warm Hope in a Cold City

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 very familiar in the novel’s worldview. The separa...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Winning and Nominated Works for International Literary Awards in 2022

Publishing Policy   Winning and Nominated Works forInternational Literary Awards in 2022 Korean Literature Recognized Worldwide for Its Literary Value   2023.09.04                           With growing global interest in Korean literature, books are being published in translations in a variety of fields.Here are the Korean literary works that have been recognized internationally for their literary value in 2022!   Counterattack at Thirty (written by Sohn Won-Pyung, published by EunHaeng NaMu Publishing) - Winner of Japan’s Booksellers’ Award for Translated Fiction - A novel centered on a thirty-year-old protagonist who struggles to cope with the contradictions of institutional authority and exploitative structures in everyday life.   ...
  • VOL.62 / 2023.09
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Korea’s Writing Platforms

Publishing Industry   Korea’s Writing Platforms   2022.07.04   In the book Writing Space, Jay David Bolter says that writing technologies realize the writing space. In other words, the writing tools, materials used, cultural selection, and social customs significantly impact the writer’s writing style and content. As a result, changes in writers’ works will be more evident in a different environment in the long run. After the Digital Revolution, people write about their daily lives more on screens than on paper, and people are moving from offline to online at an astoundingly fast pace.With changes in writing space, the pathway to publishing books is also changing rapidly. In the past, writers won literary awards, submitted to publishers, or were recommended by acquaintances before publishing their works in paper books. In contrast, writers nowadays increasingly publish their writings on online writing platforms first, get found by editors, and ...
  • VOL.48 / 2022.07
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K-Literature: The Winners of Major International Literary Awards in 2021

Publishing Policy   K-Literature: The Winners of Major International Literary Awards in 2021   2022.02.14                       We introduce to you some of the Korean literary works that won major international literary awards in 2021.   United Kingdom, The CWA Dagger - Crime Fiction in TranslationThe Disaster Tourist (Minumsa Publishing) by Yoon Ko-EunAuthor Yoon Ko-Eun’s The Disaster Tourist won in the Crime Fiction in Translation category of the CWA, UK, for the first time in Asia.Join the bizarre adventure taking place at the center of a disaster and reconstruction zone.   United States, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkYi Sang: Selected Works by Yi Sang Yi Sang: Selected Works by poet Yi Sang, a famous poet among Koreans, won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, US.The book includes fresh and experimental works that ...
  • VOL.43 / 2022.02
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Literary Awards of Korea

Publishing Policy   Literary Awards of Korea   2021.11.01                             We introduce the major literary awards and award winners that will become sales points for exporting publication rights abroad.     Adult Literature Awards:   Today’s Writer AwardSince 1977, Today’s Writer Award has been providing a wider range of opportunities to younger writers as it is given to the debut publications of writers of Korean novels. • Recent Award Winners: 2020. You-won by Baek On-Yu (Changbi Publishers) 2019. If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-Yeop (EAST-ASIA Publishing Co.) and Juliana Tokyo by Han Jung-Hyun (swimmingkul)   Daesan Literary AwardThe most significant Korean literary award is given to works of literature published within...
  • VOL.40 / 2021.11
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Current status of each field in the Korean publishing market ⑫ Publications of Children’s Books/Teenage Books

Current status of each field in the Korean publishing market ⑫ Publications of Children’s Books/Teenage Books   2021.01.04       One of the most active publishing areas in almost any country is children’s books. Many of the children’s books in Korea (for preschoolers and elementary schoolers) have long been focused on education, learning, or cognitive development for its expected roles. However, they are undergoing evolution today as a tool for delivering necessary knowledge and wisdom for kids to actively cope with the world while nurturing their boundless imagination with entertaining elements. Meanwhile, the publishing market for teenagers, which is relatively smaller than children’s books in terms of titles and size, is growing its influence in the market with more various and absorbing topics, not to mention the facilitation of reading education conducted in schools. The teen market is breaking out of the narrow frame of a “generation stuck between child...
  • VOL.30 / 2021.01
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Minjeong Jeong

Korean Translator   Minjeong Jeong   2024.02.19   Profile   She pursued Latin American Literature at Korea University, completed her translation studies at the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, and also finished her PhD coursework in the same field at Korea University. She earned the Daesan Literary Award for her Spanish translation of Byung Mo Koo’s La panadería encantada, a collaborative effort with Irma Zyanya Gil Yáñez. Additionally, she co-translated Hyejin Kim’s Sobre mi hija for publication in Argentina and Spain. Currently, she serves as a Spanish Lecturer at Dongguk University. Her translation interests primarily focus on contemporary fiction, academic texts in the humanities, and literary criticism.   Contact   • Email: yoakaori@naver.com   Achievements   ...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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#Winter

#K-Book   #Winter KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.01.02   Snow 1. Publication Details   Title | SnowAuthor | Yoon Jane, Oh SeungminPublisher | NURIMBOPublication Date | 2018-01-17ISBN | 9788958762157No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 210 * 260   2. Book Intro   One snowy day, kids hurriedly run outside with excitement. But the main character from Snow only looks out the window. She has a disability and cannot walk. The grandmother in the story empathizes with her granddaughter and relays a story from her childhood about what she did on a snowy day.After the opening in Snow, we are immediately taken to the Grandmother’s childhood days; a story of one snowy day in the 1950s unfolds with beautiful pictures and text. As the granddaughter listens to her grandmother’s story, she slowly opens up her heart. She says she ...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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South Korea's Imprint System in Publishing

South Korea's Imprint System in Publishing   2019.10.07   Most well-known South Korean publishers have several imprints (independent brands under the same publishing house). This number can go up to double-digits for large publishing houses, while smaller publishers' number of imprints is usually in the single-digit range. Imprints are a way for publishers to expand their publishing range as well as the size of their business and improve profits. Around 2005, the number of imprints grew rapidly in South Korea, and this trend was led by Woongjin Thinkbig, which managed more than 30 imprints at one point. They had a publishing system where they would recruit well-known people from the industry, like directors or editors, give them high wages and place them in charge of imprints. After looking at their performance for two years, the company would decide whether to extend their contract or not. In addition to Woongjin, Minumsa, 21st Century Books and Wisdom House, which...
  • VOL.16 / 2019.10
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