VOL.69/2024.04

 

#2022 K-Book Copyright Market

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2023.01.02

 

Hostages Trial

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Hostages Trial
Author | Park Eune-woo
Publisher | GOZKNOCK ENT
Publication Date | 2017-10-20
ISBN | 9791188504169
No. of pages | 403
Dimensions | 145 * 210

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Seung-il Yoon
Email | gozknock@naver.com
Phone | +82-2-6269-8166

 

3. Book Intro

 

The Masquerade
At Mount Cheonggye, the third-generation heir, Jo Seong-ju of the powerful J Group is throwing a party. Not only the thirty or so guests, but even the host and the staff are all wearing different kinds of masks. During the party, a bartender in a fox’s mask pulls out a gun and points it at the people. The party is over, and now begins the hostage situation.
The Start of a Hostage Situation
The police arrive at the scene to find a van in front of the mansion gates loaded with huge explosives. The hostage negotiator Heo Wan starts talking to the captor who calls himself “The Master” and says that he is holding some thirty people captive.
The Release
In the second negotiation attempt, The Master reveals the details of 15 hostages in return for a ransom of diamonds worth 5 billion won. The next day, the family of the hostages bring the diamonds they have bought and have the police hand them over.
The Master releases ten women who agreed to sneak the diamonds out. He releases twenty-five people over four different times but even after two days, seven people are still held hostage.
The Trial at Cheongye Mansion
The Master announces that he will put the seven remaining hostages on trial. He broadcasts through the Internet the trial to the whole country. The trial is about the gang rape and murder of a high school girl named Min Ji-yeong that took place nine
years ago. It looks as if the perpetrators are finally revealed, but The Master claims that only five are guilty. He reveals the shocking truth about the heinous crime.
Meanwhile, the police decide to use force.
Two hostages get killed in the process, but five are rescued with only injuries. The Master is found dead shot in the head.
The Judgement is Not Over
A few days later at the SNU hospital, the surviving hostages are hospitalized in VIP wards. At 3 am, when everyone is asleep, from the morgue in the hospital basement, a wheeled bed is moved into the ward of Jo Seong-ju, the megacorporation heir.

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Intimate Stranger

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Intimate Stranger
Author | Jung Hanah
Publisher | Munhakdongne Publishing Group
Publication Date | 2017-10-13
ISBN | 9788954648523
No. of pages | 256
Dimensions | 133*200

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Kate Han
Email | rights@munhak.com
Phone | +82-31-955-2635

 

3. Book Intro

 

One day, a novelist who has not written a novel for seven years stumbles upon an interesting advertisement in the newspaper. A portion of a novel is printed on the front page next to the phrase Searching for the author. After reading a few passages, the novelist is dumbfounded. The piece in the newspaper had been submitted anonymously to a literary contest by the novelist long before his debut, and he had all but forgotten about his work.
The novelist contacts the newspaper and asks that they no longer carry the ad, and he receives an unexpected call soon after. The call comes from a woman named Jin, searching for her husband who went missing six months prior. Jin explains that her husband pretended to be the writer of the novel in the ad. But that was not his only lie: Jin’s husband was in fact a woman and lived a life of lies before meeting her. Lee Yu-mi, the person in question, worked as an editor at a university where she failed to be admitted. Never having set foot in a music college, she served as a professor at the piano department, and she even practiced medicine without a license. The novelist becomes increasingly fascinated with the life of Lee and tries to track her down in hopes of writing a novel again using Lee as a sort of muse.

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Mr. Something Special

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Mr. Something Special
Author | Jin Sookyoung
Publisher | A thousand hope
Publication Date | 2018-12-05
ISBN | 9791187287902
No. of pages | 44
Dimensions | 215 * 256

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Song Soohyun
Email | song_soohyun@hanmail.net
Phone | +82-31-955-5243

 

3. Book Intro

 

Mr. Dajeong (meaning kind and sweet in Korean) is a 30-year-old man working in a company that manufactures scissors. He is of average height and has an average face. He wears ordinary clothes and shoes. The one and only special thing about him is that his hair is pretty long. His long hair causes many difficulties for him in his life. People stare at him as if he were a weird person and the CEO of his company criticizes him. Nevertheless, he overcomes all such obstacles to give his hair to sick children. Perhaps what’s so special about him is not the long hair that people can see. Rather, it’s the warm heart of someone who cares about children in need. Mister Something Special tells a heart-warming story about Mr. Dajeong, a special man who goes against stereotypes and gives his hair to children with cancer.
On the last page of the book, there is detailed information about hair donation (how to donate hair to sick children, how donated hair is used, etc.) to help those who would like to grow their hair long and donate it like Mr. Dajeong.
In this book, what makes Mr. Dajeong special is that he has long hair, despite being a man. There is a common stereotype that men should have short hair, and women should have long hair. This stereotype is expressed through the CEO of Dajeong’s company. Just like him, we often make the mistake of thinking that people who are different from us are wrong. But men working in offices can have long hair and express their individuality with various hair styles. The author hopes everybody will care less about gender stereotypes and express their own special individuality.
Like Mr. Dajeong, we all are ordinary, yet special. We all have our own special, attractive points. Even if these are not like Mr. Dajeong’s long hair, which anybody can notice at a glance.
The author also hopes this book will give you a chance to think about your own special individuality.

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The Battle of Tooth Kingdom

 

Title | The Battle of Tooth Kingdom
Subtitle | Jini Bini Children’s book Series
Author | Lee Soul
Publisher | SANGSANGBOX
Publication Date | 2011-01-20
ISBN | 9788995640654
No. of pages | 42
Dimensions | 225 * 270

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Oh Junwoo
Email | book@ssbbook.com
Phone | +82-31-911-5055

 

3. Book Intro

 

This picture book is designed to help form proper tooth-brushing habits. It teaches children of the importance of brushing their teeth through cavities, who fly in a UFO, and a toothbrush space battleship. Above all, the sight of Jini and Bini fighting with the Chika-chika army makes children who read this book understand that they have to brush their teeth themselves in order to protect them.

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Tasty Philosophy

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Tasty Philosophy
Subtitle | Stories of Philosophy Found in Everyday Dishes
Author | Oh Sumin
Publisher | NEXUS Co., Ltd.
Publication Date | 2019-12-06
ISBN | 9791161658209
No. of pages | 248
Dimensions | 128 * 188

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Hyejin Chung
Email | copyright@nexusbook.com
Phone | +82-2-330-5529

 

3. Book Intro

 

This book is a philosophy book that starts not with concepts, but with food. Watching bungeoppang (fish-shaped buns) being baked nice and brown, smelling the scent of Delimanjoo in the subway station, frying “backroom” chicken instead of ordering fried chicken… the writer discovered philosophical elements and wrote of philosophical concepts and philosophers in line with such experiences. No matter what the filling, the buns baked in the bungeoppang pan are all bungeoppang. Here, the writer recalled what Kant refers to as “reason,” the ability to know. A person’s ability for scientific knowledge is accepting the world through a “pan” that already takes a certain form. Does that mean that we cannot experience the raw world as it is, yet to be molded by this “pan of reason”? Is it impossible for a world to exist outside this cognition framework, this bungeoppang pan?
It’s all right if we cannot answer this question. As ideas continue one after the other, readers will familiarize themselves with philosophical thoughts and suddenly feel much closer to difficult philosophers.
The writer began to discover philosophical concepts in all aspects of her every day life after she began studying philosophy. In her daily life, she thought that food, which we eat every day, was a good subject matter where we can encounter philosophy. She talked of philosophy through a dish of food, and as she tasted the food, which resembled philosophical concepts in some ways, she realized how fun philosophy was and how close it was to our lives. She began writing to share the joy of discovering such elements.
Philosophical concepts are difficult. But it would be all too regrettable if we missed the opportunity to contemplate philosophy and enjoy it as we do food. Readers will come to know “tasty philosophy,” which they can freely ponder over and interpret, a philosophy that they can recall anytime, anywhere with this book.

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Everyone Knows, No One Knows

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Everyone Knows, No One Knows
Author | Jung Mijin
Publisher | atnoonbooks
Publication Date | 2017-05-23
ISBN | 9791195216192
No. of pages | 228
Dimensions | 127 * 188

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Bang Junbae
Email | atnoonbooks@naver.com
Phone | +82-10-7210-1978

 

3. Book Intro

 

A girl lost her memories of being kidnapped for 49 days. After 20 years, the memories of those days begin to return to her.
A kidnapped child named Yeonu returns to life in 49 days, but she has lost all of her memories of being kidnapped. The police failed to find the culprit, and the kidnapping case has remained unsolved.
Time has passed since then, and Yeonu, who has migrated to another country, returns to Korea. But upon arriving at her home country, she notices a surprising change; the memories of those 49 days begin to come back to her. As the memories that she had been unable to recall come back to her, a wave of fear washes over her.
But she is not the only one who was kidnapped 20 years ago; her classmate Yousin was also kidnapped around the same time. Just like Yeonu, Yousin came back alive after being confined for 49 days, remembering nothing. And now, after 20 years have passed, the memories of those days have begun to rise to the surface of her consciousness, along with a headache. What are the secrets behind the kidnapping case that stirred the country?

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Oh Sweet, Sweet, Sweetness

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Oh Sweet, Sweet, Sweetness
Author | Yun Suknam, Han Sungok
Publisher | SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.
Publication Date | 2016-02-02
ISBN | 9788958289463
No. of pages | 64
Dimensions | 210 * 300

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Kang Hyun Joo
Email | kanghjoo@sakyejul.com
Phone | +82-31-955-8600

 

3. Book Intro

 

In this picture book, Yun Suknam describes the sweet and tender minds of the people whom she has met throughout her life. The life with her husband, a daughter who does not want to marry, a single mom who raises her children alone, old ladies whom Yun met by chance—Yun captures the tender and touching life moments of these sweet people.
Warm and delicate sketches of mothers show “motherhood” in various moments of life, evoking sentiments of caring.

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Thinking People

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Thinking People
Author | Jeong YoungSun
Publisher | SANZINI
Publication Date | 2018-05-24
ISBN | 9788965455158
No. of pages | 280
Dimensions | 148 * 210

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Kang Sugeul
Email | sanzini@sanzinibook.com
Phone | +82-051-504-7070

 

3. Book Intro

 

North Korea is the only place in the twenty-first century where there is no freedom of movement. However, there are people who have crossed the border into the South, as in this book in which North Korean defectors serve as the subject. Through the stories of children like Suji, who came to the South looking for freedom, and Changju, who wants to make money playing soccer, we get a glimpse into the lives of children from North Korea, who not only suffer from loneliness and isolation but are also under constant duress of having to prove themselves in order to be accepted by South Korean society. In a society driven by neorealism, their freedom is limited, and the label of “North Korean defector” is a constant stranglehold. These children do not have the strength to tell their stories, and they aren’t allowed to live their own lives in a space where they are not dictated by ideology or a system.

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Bad luck does not discriminate

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Bad luck does not discriminate
Author | Jung Mijin, So-ra Kim
Publisher | atnoonbooks
Publication Date | 2019-11-12
ISBN | 9791188594092
No. of pages | 60
Dimensions | 190 * 228

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Junbae Bang
Email | atnoonbooks@naver.com
Phone | +82-10-7210-1978

 

3. Book Intro

 

This book talks about the hope, that if bad luck in life exists, good luck will also follow. The protagonist wakes up from an ominous dream. He leaves the house with a foreboding of bad luck that something bad will happen today. As expected, the moment he steps out of the door, the protagonist’s misfortune continues.
Small, large, trivial, heavy, misfortunes of different sizes, weights, and colors fill the daily life of the protagonist, no matter what.
What awaits at the end of the winding alley where the main character is walking? When will the series of misfortunes end like fireworks exploding?

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Korean Palaces

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Korean Palaces
Subtitle | always been here
Author | Park soo hyun, JO EUNJI
Publisher | BARAMGIL
Publication Date | 2019-03-22
ISBN | 9791196078638
No. of pages | 128
Dimensions | 200 * 200

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | PARK SOO HYUN
Email | baramgilbooks@naver.com
Phone | +82-10-4435-6449

 

3. Book Intro

 

Palaces are a space which were protected by people over over 500 years in the Joseon era. There are five palaces in Seoul: Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, Changgyeonggung Palace, Deoksugung Palace and Gyeongheegung Palace. Korean Palaces is a story with a different perspective, featuring the people and buildings of the Joseon Dynasty rather than focusing on the architectural characteristics of the palaces.
Korean Palaces is an easy travel book introducing the five palaces in Seoul. As the subtitle, “always been here”, says, these palaces have lived in this world for more than 600 years and remember the time they spent with Korean ancestors. Over the course of time, the palaces were burned, disappeared, and were restored, and in that sense, palaces are a history of Joseon. Understanding Joseon through these palaces will help people understand the future of Korea. The stories about buildings in this book feature quotes from the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty. In the case of Gyeongbokgung Palace, it was burned down during the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592 and was left as a ruin for 273 years until King Gojong rebuilt it. Changedeokgung Palace and Gyeongheegung Palace undertook the role of main palace until it was rebuilt and later, when the Korean Empire was declared, Gyeongungung Palace (Deoksugung Palace) acted as the main palace. Through stories of what happened, who was born, who died and what kind of political order was in place, readers will be able to understand the 519 years of the Joseon Dynasty. The palaces are shown in water paintings rather than photographs, generating the sensation of reading a picture book, and “Giwa”(tile) and “Dancheong”(multi-colored painting on wood) are colored with a modern interpretation rather than their original colors. This book helps the reader to understand the history of Joseon and its palaces, perhaps making them feel a little closer to the old buildings.

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