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The Era of High Exchange Rates and the Korean Publishing Market

Topic The Era of High Exchange Rates and the Korean Publishing Market Readers ultimately respond to good content 2025.04.07 The structure of the Korean publishing market and translation-oriented publishing in the 1990s I vividly remember the days when the Asian Financial Crisis hit Korea. The value of foreign currencies jumped one day. I waited for it to fall, but things didn’t go as expected. The value of foreign currencies continued to skyrocket, and the value of the Korean won plummeted. This was the situation in 1997. Until then, the Korean publishing market had been heavily dependent on importing translation rights to titles that could compete in Korea from overseas markets, mainly Japan and the English-speaking countries. In this climate, Korea was hit by the era of high exchange rates. By the time we had to pay the advance for a title contracted at 800 won per dollar, the exchange rate had nearly doubled to 1,600 won per dollar, which we had ...

VOL.81 / 2025.04

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A New Chapter in Korea-China Literary Exchange

Export Case A New Chapter in Korea-China Literary Exchange Folio Culture’s Korean Book Localization Strategy 2025.03.10 Folio Culture (Beijing) has consistently focused on introducing and localizing Korean books in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and literature. In recent years, we have successfully brought several Korean works to the Chinese market through precise topic selection, cultural adaptation, and innovative promotion strategies, sparking widespread discussions on the social media platform Xiaohongshu. Below, we share our experiences in four key areas: topic selection strategy, localization practices, promotion strategy, and future plans. Balancing Social Issues with Literary Value, Grounded in Shared East Asian Emotions, to Create a Dialogue Space for Chinese and Korean Youth Capturing Social Resonance Points in Korean Literature In recent years, Korean literature has shifted from grand narrati...

VOL.80 / 2025.03

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Poetry Collections: The Trend of the Era and the Compass of the Heart

Topic Poetry Collections: The Trend of the Era andthe Compass of the Heart 2024.12.02 The rise of Korean poetry and its global takeoff There have been a number of “unusual” scenes in Korean literature in recent years. If I told you that Korean poetry is at the center of it, would international readers believe me? The proportion of readers in their 20s and 30s buying poetry books is increasing. The share of teenagers is also increasing, not to mention the number of poetry books being published. It is no longer strange or unfamiliar to see people transcribing poems. There are even bookstores in Korea that sell only poetry books. It’s a curious thing. Haven’t we all moved on to YouTube, TikTok, and Netflix? The thing that’s being “unlocked” should be smartphones, not poetry books, isn’t it?The year 2024 is poised to be a monumental year in Korean literary history. It is 100 years since the publication of Chu Yo-Han’ first poetry collection Beau...

VOL.77 / 2024.12

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Bringing Korean Voices to French Readers

Export Case Bringing Korean Voices to French Readers 2024.12.02 Korean literature and Editions Picquier have a long story. We began publishing books from Asia nearly 40 years ago: Korea and its literature, virtually unknown in France at the time, have fascinated us from our earliest days. The first works we published - Kim Won Il’s Mr Lee’s Travel, KIM Song Dong’s Mandala, Yun Hung Kil’s The Mother - almost went unnoticed; it was challenging to bring readers into contact with a literature that was far removed from the habits and preoccupations of French readers. It was a literature that gave pride of place to cultural traditions, to the earth, to history. We thus decided to publish anthologies of short stories and essays to give French readers some reference points. This had a pedagogical purpose, establishing a foothold in Korean literature and presenting a more organized history to readers. More than 30 years ago, what was being published in France wa...

VOL.77 / 2024.12

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Globalizing Korean Literature: The Journey of Kim Hye-jin and Her Works

Export Case Globalizing Korean Literature:The Journey of Kim Hye-jin and Her Works 2024.11.04 I am writing this a day after Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The first in history for a writer from South Korea. It is, without a doubt, a huge milestone for South Korean literature and a debt that was long overdue. Some may even feel that this is the ultimate goal for the internationalization of Korean literature.Korea has an incredibly rich and diverse literary culture that has conquered the world in recent years, and I feel that this is an interesting moment to stop and think about how authors and authorships are managed. The most important ‘ingredients’, which are talent and key resources such as translators, grants, and promotion programs, are already there. The support is truly impressive. But how can we best promote a...

VOL.76 / 2024.11

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Promoting Korean Art Through Books

Special Project [English Books in Korea ⑤] Promoting Korean Art Through Books English editions of Korean art books for foreigners 2024.10.07 Youlhwadang Publishers, the publisher I’m working for as an editor, has three ways of utilizing English when publishing books on Korean traditional culture and arts. At the most basic level, we include an English summary at the front of the book that summarizes the content of the Korean edition, with the intent of providing the most basic information for librarians in foreign libraries with no Korean skills to categorize the books. For art collections that are mainly image-based with relatively few texts, the full text is included in both Korean and English so that it can be distributed at home and abroad as a single edition. This is also useful for artists to use as a portfolio when performing abroad. Finally, the Korean and English editions can be planned as independent books, published simultaneous...

VOL.75 / 2024.10

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A Chance to Introduce Korean Publishing Content to Global Readers!

Knowledge A Chance to Introduce Korean PublishingContent to Global Readers! Translation and Publication Grant Programs in Korea 2024.10.07 With an aim to boost the global advancement of Korean publishing content, various organizations in Korea have been running translation and publication grant programs for international publishers to help them publish excellent Korean books! (The following information is based on announcements made in 2024.) Establishing a foundation for the publishing of Korean Wave books by supporting the overseas publication of Korean publishing content!Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) 〈2024 Overseas Publication Grants〉 Qualification Overseas publishers who have imported Korean publication copyrights Supported Areas A part of the publish...

VOL.75 / 2024.10

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Yanolja CEO Sujin Lee’s Restart Advances Into the UK

Export Case Yanolja CEO Sujin Lee’s Restart Advances Into the UK 2024.09.02 Restart (Cloud 9), a nonfiction essay about Yanolja’s vision to become the “Global One Top Travel Tech Company,” has just been published in the UK. It is an autobiographical essay by Yanolja CEO Sujin Lee, who constantly writes “new legends” as he continues to establish himself as an icon of fortitude and success. The UK publisher of the book is LID Publishing, a company with a strong and unique presence at the center of global issues, which has been publishing books by various figures.Restart is Sujin Lee’s 18-year business chronicle from 2005 - the year Yanolja was founded - to 2023, and the journey of Yanolja’s expansion from the number one accommodation company in Korea to a global company that is now creating a paradigm shift in the leisure and travel market. Subtitled “An entrepreneur’s journey from motel janitor to CEO of a global enterprise,” the book was first re...

VOL.74 / 2024.09

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Books That Expanded My Horizons

One-Liner Quotes Books That Expanded My Horizons Korean-French Translator’s Pick: Korean Books 2024.09.02 As a French translator, Somi Chang has been translating modern and contemporary French literature into Korean, including Margrit Duras, Albert Camus, Françoise Sagan, Romain Garrigue, Michel Uelbeck, Hervé Guibert, and Valérie Ferenc. From the position of being an introducer of foreign books to Korean readers, I have gone the other way, introducing books by Korean authors to international readers. I browsed through my bookshelves. Adding the keyword “Korea” to my personal book selection criteria of “books that expand my horizons,” regardless of language, I picked out two books with great effort. Two books are: Leaning Against the Entasis Solumns at Muryangsujeon Hall (Hakgojae Publishers, 1994) and Music Story Collection (Franz, 2024). Leaning Against the Entasis Solumns at Mu...

VOL.74 / 2024.09

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Top 10 World Bestseller of Picture Books: Publisher BookGoodCome

Export Case Top 10 World Bestseller of Picture Books:Publisher BookGoodCome 2024.07.01 BookGoodCome is a publishing house established in 2009 by a couple – writer Lee Rury and translator Lee Soon-Young. It enters its 15th year on July 4 this year. For the past 15 years, the publishing house has published about 330 titles, and 150 of them are creative books it planned. BookGoodCome has been participating in a number of international book fairs every year since 2011, and has signed approximately 100 export contracts up to date. So, let’s take a look at world bestsellers published by BookGoodCome! * K-Book Trends Vol. 10 – Go to the interview with BookGoodCome BookGoodCome’s booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair No. 1 is the Coda the Polar Bear series. Its first volume is Coda the Polar Bear: The First Story, Black Noses, written by Lee Rury and illustrated by Bae Woory. It was exported to 3 countries, in...

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