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Knowledge Recent Status of Korean Webnovels 2024.04.01 The size and the current status of the market The webnovel industry, which was officially recognized in 2013 with the NAVER Webnovel Contest, has nearly doubled every year since then - expanding to a market worth 1 trillion won by 2024. It has firmly established itself as one of the pillars of the Korean content market alongside webtoons. Media mixing is actively taking place through the content value chain centered on Kakao and Naver, and this potential has attracted many creators to take on the challenge of writing webnovels full of dreams.According to the “2022 Status Survey of the Webnovel Industry” published by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) in 2023, the number of webnovel users in Korea was estimated at 5.87 million, and the estimated revenue of the entire webnovel industry was w...

VOL.69 / 2024.04

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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-S...

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, family, pregnancy, and childbirth has decreased, the market ...

VOL.66 / 2024.01

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Today and Future of Korean Digital Publishing

Publishing Industry Today and Future of Korean Digital Publishing 2023.08.07 The COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 has also brought about major changes in the digital publishing industry. Most importantly, it accelerated the AI digital textbook project, which nobody knew when it would gain a boost. It was also the trigger that facilitated digital transformation and digital convergence in the publishing industry.The digital publishing industry in Korea has been developing for the past decade through continuous transformations. The iBooks Store - an e-book distribution market launched by Apple and Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s self-publishing service opened a full-fledged e-book publishing market in Korea. Many digital publishing start-ups joined the industry. There, major issues in the publishing industry were ...

VOL.61 / 2023.08

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Book Pricing Strategies in Korea

Publishing Industry Book Pricing Strategies in Korea 2023.07.03 Average list price of books sold in 2022 was 17,869 Korean won In Korea, books are usually sold at a fixed price. It’s because the “fixed book price policy” is implemented as the book price policy in accordance with the Publishing Industry Promotion Act. According to the Korean Publishers Association’s statistics, the average fixed price of books in Korea in 2022 was 17,869 won, 4.4% up from the previous year (17,116 won). This isn’t a sharp increase considering the international pulp prices and domestic labor costs that have been driving prices up in recent years because publishers sell books at a “competitive price” as they fiercely compete with multiple titles in the market.In the Korean publishing market, the hardback, paper...

VOL.60 / 2023.07

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Korean Book Publishers Eye Webnovels and Webtoons

Publishing Industry Korean Book Publishers Eye Webnovels and Webtoons Why is Dasan Books starting an entertainment business? 2022.04.04 With the global mega-hit of “Squid Game” on Netflix in 2021, the world began to take a greater interest in Korean content. Other webtoon-based dramas, including “Hellbound” and “We Are All Dead,” are seeing good records as well, and Korean webtoon platforms such as Piccoma, Line Manga, and Tapas are rapidly growing in the global market. Now webtoons are rising as the next driver of Korean content, or K-content, which has been represented by K-pop.Korean book publishers are also greatly interested in webtoons and webnovels. General publishers such as Woongjin Thinkbig, Dasan Books, and Wisdom House have shown a clear movement in this regard. It also seems that those that have not yet started a relevant business are paying heed to the webnovel and webtoon business, the newly emerging field in the content industry. ...

VOL.45 / 2022.04

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Facilitation of Sub-rights and Their Markets

Publishing Industry Facilitation of Sub-rights and Their Markets Plays, Films, Merchandising Goods, Etc. 2021.09.06 As Korea’s soft power expands, more people in the world are taking an interest in Korean culture. The best leaders of Korea’s soft power are BTS, director Bong Joon-Ho who has presented various movies including “Parasite,” and actress Youn Yuh-Jung’s achievement through the movie “Minari.” The values of Korean pop culture are growing, and many people worldwide are sharing Korean culture. Such a phenomenon implies that the opportunities and spaces for sharing Korean culture worldwide develop simultaneously at a rapid pace. It was, therefore, a natural result that people began to pay more attention to Korean publishing content – the source of the OSMU (once source, multi-use) – in addition to the phenomenon. All this means that it has become a reality that the number of different usage cases of sub-rights based on Korean publication c...

VOL.38 / 2021.09

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Book Funds and Publication

Book Funds and Publication 2021.07.05 From support and cooperation to investment and profit It is impossible to trace the origin of book funds. They would have existed from the infancy stage of the publishing industry as one of the various ways of publication. Certain stories could be deemed good stories necessary for the world, but for them to be published in the market as a product called books, you need capital. Funds might have been used as a means to raise money. Indeed, the nature of funds in the past would have been closer to support and cooperation (of course, I cannot look into what those fund-raisers had in mind), whereas funds today are more focused on investment and profit-sharing (people might have different thoughts as well but most of the funds I participate in are supportive and cooperative).In the Korean publishing industry, book funds only account for a small proportion, both in terms of attempts and size of investments. It was the early 21st cent...

VOL.36 / 2021.07

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Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers

Audiobooks in Korea: Users and Service Providers Service and Content Providers in Busy Days with Market’s Growing Interest in Audiobooks 2021.04.05 In the previous March edition, we talked about the audiobook industry's current status in Korea and its prospects in 2021. Consumers and service providers play a pivotal role in expanding the market and business opportunities. Furthermore, it is meaningful to witness how they interact with each other in the audiobook ecosystem contributes to the industry’s healthy growth and maturity. In this April’s edition, let’s find what behaviors audiobook consumers have shown to the market. Recently-made audio content enabling interaction among provider and users, providing a new-level of “experience”. As the pandemic is not showing any signs of abating, more people are enjoying audiobooks at home instead of going to bookstores or libraries. In the previous edition, we introduced how “Wela...

VOL.33 / 2021.04

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Korea’s Audiobook Industry Ready to Fly in 2021

Korea’s Audiobook Industry Ready to Fly in 2021 The ongoing rapid evolution and development of the audiobook industry in Korea 2021.03.08 The most striking news in the new year was Influential, the operating company of an audiobook service platform ‘welaaa’, succeeding in winning 25 billion won worth of Series C sole investment from UTC Investment. This is after another mega-investment in 2020, where it attracted 13.5 billion won worth of Series B investment. Such a fast and massive investment implies that the future of the audiobook industry in Korea is rosy indeed. The domestic e-book industry says that the audiobook market's size has reached 30 billion won in 2020 and is likely to hit 60 billion won in 2021, which is nearly double the size. The audiobook market in Korea was formed in the early 2000s, but its size was trivial, with 10 billion won worth volume even until 2018. Given that situation, it is worth paying attention to the movement th...

VOL.32 / 2021.03

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