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Special Project [Book × Plant] Korea is Now All About Plants! 2024.04.01 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. Childhood dreams inspired by the beauty of plants My first dream in life was to be a botanist. I was only 6 years old - a kindergartener. It was thanks to my mother, who loved to grow plants, and my father, who loved nature so much that he took me on trips whenever he could. The fact that I grew up in the countryside and was always around plants was also one of the reasons why I wanted to be a botanist. Ho...

VOL.69 / 2024.04

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Starting Life With Books, Bookstart Korea

Publishing Policy Starting Life With Books, Bookstart Korea 2024.02.19 Initiated in the UK, “Bookstart” is a worldwide program that has now spread to around 40 countries.Starting in 2003 in Korea, it celebrates the 21st anniversary this year. Bookstart Korea is run by more than 300 libraries in about 72% of local governments with about 1,000 partner organizations.Giving bags full of picture books as a gift for babies, the babies and parents read them together in joyful laughter. Bookstart Korea is a program that gives happiness and joy! Six Objectives of Bookstart Korea • Providing social support for childcare • Providing communication tools between parents and babies • Helping babies get familiar with books • Giving parents tips for childcare • Supporting cultural welfare for local communities ...

VOL.67 / 2024.02

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New Approaches to Education in the Korean Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry New Approaches to Education in the Korean Publishing Industry “It will work out somehow, as we’ve started!” 2023.01.02 The Foundation of the Book Publishing Industry in Korea There are a great many publishing houses in Korea. The number exceeds 70 thousand or falls to 2 thousand depending on how you approach the term “publishing.” Either way, the number is still quite a lot. The reason for this is that Korea has a very simple procedure for setting up a publishing company. All you have to do is declare your company type as “publishing” when registering it. As of the end of last year, the number of firms that reported their type as “publishing” to the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism was 71,319, including newspaper and magazine publishers. Among them, 2,026 were “general book publishers (paper media publishing).”1) The number increased to 2,7112) in the report issued in 2019. Also, the Publish...

VOL.54 / 2023.01

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#School

#K-Book #School KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.03.11 School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung 1. Publication Details Title | School Nurse Ahn EunyoungAuthor | Chung SerangPublisher | Minumsa PublishingPublication Date | 2015-12-07ISBN | 9788937473098No. of pages | 280Dimensions | 128 * 188 2. Book Intro Chung Serang who has been beloved by readers for her unique imagination and heart-warming stories has published a new novel School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung. The story centers on a school nurse Ahn Eunyoung who is working at M private high school. Though neither her job nor her name is special, she is not just one of the school nurses. She always has a lot of work to do but carries out her duties as a school nurse faithfully. And at the same time, she dedicates herself to her vocation as an exorcist. Hong Inpyo, who is a Chinese character teacher and descendent of the founder...

VOL.68 / 2024.03

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Where the Children from the Book Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play

Book Trip [Into the Book ①] Where the Children from the BookChildren of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village Used to Play Mansuk-dong, Dong-gu, Incheon: Time Travel with the Book 2023.08.07 Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village The Kwaeng-i-bu-ri Village is the oldest poor neighborhood in Incheon. (...)Over the years, the village turned from a forest of pine trees into a factory townfull of smokestacks and shanty houses. Children of Kwaeng-I-Bu-Ri Village (Changbi Publishers), published in 2000, is a children’s book featuring the life of twin sisters Sook-Hee (the main character) and Sook-Ja living in a poor daldongne neighborhood. The word “daldongne” means a poor village situated on the slopes of a hill in Korea, and it is said to have deriven from its proximity to the moon. It is widely known that Kim Jung-Mi, the writer, had once run a s...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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Current Status of Publications for Seniors in Korea

Topic Current Status of Publications for Seniors in Korea 2021.12.06 Heightened interest in “publications for older readers” ahead of the post-aged society The United Nations (UN) defines a society where people aged 65 and above account for more than 20% of the population as a "post-aged society." Based on this standard, Korea will be entering the post-aged society in 2025, four years from now, with the aged population accounting for 20.3% of the entire population. As of 2020, the proportion of citizens aged 65 and above was 15.7%. Still, agricultural regions with a higher percentage of the older population (Jeollanam-do, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Jeollabuk-do, and Gangwon-do) are already categorized as post-aged local societies. One of the reasons for Korea's rapid aging is the low birth rate, which is the lowest in the world.Compared to other major countries in the OECD, the relative poverty rate of Korea's aged population is high. According to the sta...

VOL.41 / 2021.12

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Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do

Book Trip Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do The Active Role Independent Bookstores Play in Leadingthe Regeneration of Urban Culture in the Old Downtown Area 2021.11.01 Chungcheongbuk-do Province is the only province in Korea that does not embody a coastal area. However, in Cheongju, located in the central part of the inland area of the Chungcheongbuk-do Province, is Daecheong Lake, also known as the sea of the inland. Daecheong Lake, with its vastness, provides a rich supply of water, making Cheongju a city of plentifulness with magnificent scenery. You can enjoy a stroll or drive along with the scenery of Daecheong Lake that changes throughout the four seasons. Cheongju has an abundance of tourist locations such as the Cheongnamdae, the presidential villa with the name in Korean that means “Blue House of the South.” It also has a well-preserved earthen fortification representing Korea called Sangdangsanseong Fortress, and Suamgol Village with its old alleys al...

VOL.40 / 2021.11

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Food for Thought on Careers, Truthfully Portrayed in Essays

Special Project Food for Thought on Careers, Truthfully Portrayed in Essays The Second Character Outshines the Main Character 2021.10.05 Anyone can dream of many different kinds of life. This is because it’s part of human nature to struggle with wholly expressing yourself in just a single way. Recently, there has been a hot trend of second characters (a term referring to a new or different version of yourself) being used by individuals to express each of their unique, respective identities. One of the trending ways of doing this includes essays. This refers to writing and publishing essays that portray the joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure one feels in the workplace while weaving one’s work characteristics clearly into the essays. With the increasing popularity of essays in the publishing market, “career essays” on the truthful experiences and stray thoughts one has in the workplace are also booming. There’s a so-called genre of writing, “Jobssay,” ...

VOL.39 / 2021.10

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Humanitas

Korean Publishers Humanitas Going Forward with Belief in Change 2022.12.05 All individuals live in a society - the link between an individual and a community cannot be broken. Issues and relations formed among people and society cause problems and conflicts. Some cases are minor discords among individuals but sometimes become a huge problem for the community. Humanitas is a publisher that pays attention and listens to small and big societal issues that people face. Humanitas takes steps along with individuals and members of society and turns small movements into changes. Today, we met Humanitas, which has continuously explored diverse situations in Korea from a social science perspective. Humanitas’ Logo It’s an honor to have you here on K-Book Trends. Please introduce Humanitas, its mission, and the meaning of the company’s name to our overseas readers. Humanitas ...

VOL.53 / 2022.12

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Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do

Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do A City Infused with the Scent of Books 2021.04.05 Daegu Metropolitan City, located in the southern part of Gyeongsangbuk-do, is an inland basin where mountains, forests, springs, and wetlands make beautiful harmony. Being the epitome of “harmonious coexistence,” Daegu boasts a cordial mixture of fancy townscape and beautiful nature, where the past, present, and future coexist. You can also find unique streets where businesses in the same industry came together and formed their own market. The best examples are the automobile component street in Namsan, famous for its street motor show, glasses street which is one of the top 3 glasses production sites in the world, and the jewelry street where around 200 jewelry shops are lined up. And if you walk down the 100-year-old Hyangsoo road around Namsan, you will come across “Daegu Printing Street,” which shows the history and friendliness of the printing culture and gives the city its r...

VOL.33 / 2021.04

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