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New-nostalgia, the 1990s Sought in the 2020s

Special Project   [Book × New-nostalgia] New-nostalgia, the 1990s Sought in the 2020s   2024.05.07     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.     Why are the 2020s bringing back the 1990s?   The past ages do not just recede from the present over time. Some events from the past have become the underlying framework for the present. The 2020s have been through the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, and have embraced each of them one after the other. The 1990s, in particular, are often invoked in the 2020s when it c...
  • VOL.70 / 2024.05
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The Wisdom to Survive in the Ever-changing World

One-Liner Quotes   The Wisdom to Survive in the Ever-changing World Professional investor’s pick   2024.03.11   Yeom Seung-Hwan is the director of the Retail Department at EBEST Investment & Securities and has worked in securities firms and broadcasted on stock investing. He has written The 77 Most Important Questions for Novice Stock Investors (One & One Contents Group Publishing).     The first book I would like to introduce is Forecast of the Times: Era of Nuclear Individuals (Kyobo Book Center). Song Gil-Young, the writer of this book, is a “mind miner” who reads and interprets the human mind from big data, which is an accumulation of millions of people’s records. He has spent the last 20 years observing people’s daily records to understand the meanings they are looking for, and using them to predict future currents and trends.I chose this book not because of the reputation of the writer,...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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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, family, pregnancy, and childbirth has decreased, the market ...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activities and Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry   Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activitiesand Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry   2023.11.06         Libraries are public service organizations that are easily accessible to anyone in their daily lives when it comes to reading activities. The Korean Library Act also defines a library as a place that contributes to the promotion of reading culture based on library materials. After the Korean government designated 1993 as the “Year of Books,” the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and publishing organizations carried out vigorous campaigns to promote reading among the public. They pushed for the enactment of the “Reading Promotion Act (tentative title)” as a basis for more systematic and continuous promotion. In the process, as discussions progressed with the library co...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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Arts Council Korea’s Munhak Nanum Book Distribution Project

Publishing Policy   Arts Council Korea’s Munhak Nanum Book Distribution Project   2023.02.20                       Leading the development of the publishing market and promoting reading culture: Munhak Nanum Book Distribution Project The Munhak Nanum Book Distribution Project, organized by Arts Council Korea, has been putting the utmost effort into promoting publishing culture and reading opportunities by selecting and distributing excellent literary books. Among a total of 6 categories – poetry, fiction, non-fiction, review, play, children/young adult, and literature, the project selects and supports first-edition literary books (non-co-written) published within the specified period! About 500 titles are chosen each year, then distributed to various organizations such as libraries, local cultural centers, and social welfare facilities!   Selection Criteria • Creativeness an...
  • VOL.55 / 2023.02
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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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Current Employment Status in the Korean Publication Industry

Publishing Industry   Current Employment Status in the Korean Publication Industry   2022.12.05   The “2020 Content Industry Statistics (2022.3.)” report published by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism provides various statistics from the status survey conducted in 2021 on the overall content industry. With the latest statistics available today, it is the only document that shows the current situation of the publishing industry in figures, including statistics about the Korean publishing industry.   About 185,000 people are employed throughout the publishing industry, including newspapers and printing   The report shows that the number of employees in the publishing industry reached 185,444 in 2020, which is a 0.5% increase from 184,554 in 2018. This figure covers all publishing-related fields, such as publishing, printing, wholesaling, retailing, online distribution, and renting. To look at the publishing industry in more detail, this numbe...
  • VOL.53 / 2022.12
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MCST Announces the 2022-2026 Publishing Industry Promotion Plan

Publishing Industry   MCST Announces the 2022-2026 PublishingIndustry Promotion Plan Fostering K-Culture through Books and Building a Cultural Powerhouse through Publishing   2022.11.07   “Books” are the core content that has been with humanity for a long period of time. However, the domain of each type of content and the boundary between them have become unclear these days. Today, publishers are not just coming up with publishable content, but are expanding their business into e-books and audiobooks, not to mention other cultural fields such as the film, game, and music industries. As such, the publishing industry takes on different content-based roles, crossing the traditional frontier of “print books.”However, unlike the diversified channels for publishing content, readership is falling every year. People now prefer video services like TV, YouTube, and Netflix rather than books. The average annual percentage of Koreans reading books is 47.5...
  • VOL.52 / 2022.11
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The Adoption of the Public Lending Right, Requiring the Agreement of All Parties in the Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry   The Adoption of the Public Lending Right,Requiring the Agreement of All Parties in the Publishing Industry   2022.09.05   An amendment of the Copyright Act proposed last April by a national assembly member of the Democratic Party of Korea, Kim Seung-Won, garnered the attention of stakeholders in the publishing industry. The amendment was about introducing the Public Lending Right (PLR) to Korea by amending the Copyright Act. The Public Lending Right is the right to be compensated for the expected loss of copyright by owners caused by book lending from libraries, and it is known as the PLR. Thirty-four EU member states adopted the right.   A photo of a public library (Photo taken by photographer Lee Eui Jong)     Copyright Act amendment gained much attention from the publishing industry’s stakeholders   The introduction of the PLR will have a wide range of...
  • VOL.50 / 2022.09
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Trends in the Publishing Market in the First Half of 2022

Publishing Industry   Trends in the Publishing Market in the First Half of 2022   2022.08.01   People are still reeling from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has swept the world over the past three years. Korea has been rapidly taking actions to return people’s daily lives to how they were before the pandemic. Such efforts can be seen through major terms commonly used in news outlets, such as “endemic” and “post-COVID.” Also, in early June, the Seoul International Book Fair was held at COEX on a large scale after a three-year absence, attracting approximately 100 thousand visitors. What’s more, lectures and autograph signing events of writers that had halted due to the social distancing policy have begun to take place again. It also seems that publications, book sales, and book-related programs are beginning to revitalize.Books related to “endemic” include From Pandemic to Endemic (Dongasia Books), written by researchers at the Institute for ...
  • VOL.49 / 2022.08
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