VOL.74/2024.09

 

#Book Fair

KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform

2023.11.06

 

Five-Dog Night

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Five-Dog Night
Author | Chae Young-shin
Publisher | EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.
Publication Date | 2021-07-20
ISBN | 9791167370433
No. of pages | 276
Dimensions | 140 * 210

 

2. Book Intro

 

Se-min, a child suffering from albinism, and Hye-jung, a mother who has to protect Se-min from the world. This novel heavily depicts the road to tragedy for Se-min’s family, plagued with bullying and violence. School violence, tragic family history, and the atrocities of religious cults seeking a ‘savior’ for the world—this novel endlessly throws questions about pain that we cannot avoid. “Where are you now?”, “Where is your place now?”
- Winner of the 7th Hwangsanbeol Youth Literary Award

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5711

 

 

Karma Police

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Karma Police
Author | Hong June-Soung
Publisher | EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.
Publication Date | 2021-04-09
ISBN | 9791191071528
No. of pages | 380
Dimensions | 135 * 205

 

2. Book Intro

 

The backdrop of the novel is an imaginary city, Bimoe-si. The history of this city, governed by Queen Thorn, is a short version of the history of mankind to the present. So, in a way, it is a kind of natural history museum. The story begins with a bat flying high into the air. The bat had survived by eating bookworms in a corner of an antique bookstore. But the day the store closed, he was dragged out into the world. And that very day he was killed by a peregrine falcon. A man selling medicinal herbs discovers the bat’s carcass and sells it for medicinal purposes. Mrs. Glass, who boiled the bat and drank the water, bears 42, a baby resembling a bat. These scenes, which at first glance seem insignificant, fit into a larger story through a chain of events that fall like dominoes as the novel progresses.
42, born in this manner, is one of the few survivors of the Great Flood. The Great Flood refers to a disaster that occurred when a dam, constructed as a major civil engineering project that Queen Thorn promoted to stop inflation, collapsed. The name 42 comes from the serial number given to him, a flood survivor. He was put in an orphanage, but due to his facial resemblance to a bat, he gets the opportunity to go to the palace. How will the life of a child, with a number instead of his own original name, develop?
As the reader can guess from the title, Karma Police, which is also the title of a song by the British alternative rock group Radiohead, this novel tells all the stories of the world surrounding 42 instead of a simple story of one character. Throughout the story, the novel reminds readers of the universal history of all times and places, and doggedly delves inside to see how the lives of the people are closely connected and affect each other like dominoes.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5663

 

 

I Became a Weak Character in a Dark Fantasy

1. Publication Details

 

Title | I Became a Weak Character in a Dark Fantasy
Author | Seohong
Publisher | RS Media
Publication Date | 2021-11-04
ISBN | 9791168391000

 

2. Book Intro

 

The character he was training was in essence a totally weak character impossible for getting to the ending. 〈Character deletion has been rejected.〉 Not impossible, but rejected? He was flustered for a while, but soon he opened his eyes in a strange swamp in the middle of nowhere as the weak character he was training. “… I shouldn’t have downloaded illegally in the first place.” A dark age headed toward destruction. A survival story of a completely weak character for a safe return.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=7329

 

 

Comic Webtoon Artist Review 50

 

Title | Comic Webtoon Artist Review 50
Author | The Animation Society of Korea
Publisher | Communicationbooks
Publication Date | 2021-04-30
ISBN | 9791128808135
No. of pages | 100
Dimensions | 128 * 188

 

2. Book Intro

 

The Korean Animation Association mobilized 30 webtoon experts to complete this series over 5 years. The series compiles and analyzes webtoon writers from the 1950s to the 2010s, writers who are representative of almost all genres, including romance, comedy, action, adventure, horror, drama and much more. As webtoon is a medium that is characterized by the reader-writer interaction, the series aims at facilitating the access to Korean webtoon writers and their works.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5702

 

 

Secret Circus

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Secret Circus
Author | Jin Yeom
Publisher | Woojunamu Publishing
Publication Date | 2021-02-26
ISBN | 9791189489182
No. of pages | 40
Dimensions | 230 * 285

 

2. Book Intro

 

Bologna2021, Illustrator of the Year
A picture book without words that tells a rich story with only pictures. Unbeknownst to the mother and the father, the child puts on a circus performance of his own life. This work is a picture book without text. In the living room, the child plays ball with the dog, and the ball goes into the tent. A child enters the tent to find a ball and meets a fantastic animal circus. The child goes to the theater with them, prepares for the circus and participates in the performance. This picture book embodies a child’s imagination and fantasy world with a stable composition and meticulous description, so it tells a rich story without words, only with pictures. It’s also entertaining to see a lot of unique and attractive characters.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5538

 

 

Learning Korean Writing through Reading Materials

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Learning Korean Writing through Reading Materials
Author | Youn Namhee
Publisher | SOTONG
Publication Date | 2021-02-15
ISBN | 9791186453964
No. of pages | 184
Dimensions | 188 * 257

 

2. Book Intro

 

Recently, there has been a growing interest in integrating reading and writing in education, and efforts to implement this in practice have become more active. However, it has been difficult to find books that provide qualitative ways to combine these two skills. This book starts from this problem and presents strategic reading for improving writing skills, with a focus on natural integration between reading and writing. The book suggests learning various writing styles through reading materials and acquiring sufficient background knowledge before starting to write. Since the process of writing involves expressing and organizing background knowledge in appropriate ways, without sufficient background knowledge or knowledge of expression, one cannot write good content.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5271

 

 

Horai-Fried eggs

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Horai-Fried eggs
Author | Seo Hyun
Publisher | SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.
Publication Date | 2021-07-08
ISBN | 9791160947328
No. of pages | 116

 

2. Book Intro

 

Horai, a fried egg, used to live on a bowl of rice. But now Horai roams freely through time and space. Sometimes, Horai pretends to be a hat on top of a child’s head and other times becomes a blanket on top of dad. Also, Horai feels the breeze on top of a car while striking a pose. Look at Horai, who was squished by a child’s bum during a play date, just to be reincarnated inside a watermelon. These moments in the book are interestingly unpredictable.
Horai flies anywhere it pleases without a care. It even goes underground and visits hell like it’s nothing. Horai has been to heaven as well, after all! How different could it be? The brilliant and bizarre adventures of Horai are very fun to read. It feels like the author is extending an inviting hand to the reader by only placing one drawing and one short sentence per page, saying “There’s too much space in this picture book for me to play alone!”
Horai is a book anyone can enjoy by opening up their five senses, and going with the flow. The author creates sensory images and makes the reader look at mundane things from a different perspective.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5589

 

 

A psychological analysis of stock charts for smart ants

1. Publication Details

 

Title | A psychological analysis of stock charts for smart ants
Author | Park youngsu, Jung dongsul
Publisher | uldo nation
Publication Date | 2021-05-05
ISBN | 9791187911685
No. of pages | 260
Dimensions | 152 * 255

 

2. Book Intro

 

This book teaches methods of reading the psychology of the public hidden in stock charts. By reading the psychology of the public hidden in the chart, you can discover the position you must choose. A battle that is over leaves a trace. Such traces allow you to read the psychology. Because individual investors are weak in information and capital, they must fight by utilizing chart psychological analysis. What would happen if you could read the psychology in the charts? You will understand the past and present stock prices and will be able to predict the future. You can identify the intentions of investors and, as a result, you will establish an investment strategy. This will allow you to generate profits based on reasons, no longer worrying about uncertain external factors.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5212

 

 

The most precious thing to me was myself

1. Publication Details

 

Title | The most precious thing to me was myself
Author | Kim Insun
Publisher | Wood Pencil Books
Publication Date | 2021-01-01
ISBN | 9791187890386
No. of pages | 212
Dimensions | 127 * 188

 

2. Book Intro

 

How many stories are hidden in a person’s life? what it means to look back on one’s life; it’s about a woman’s life that has been on going for 70 years--a life full of ups and downs. She was a Korean immigrant living in Germany, a sexual minority, and the first woman to establish a hospice for immigrants in Germany. In the year of Korean War, she was born in Kyung Nam Ma San, leaving behind the poor and miserable childhood, she migrated to Germany when she was 22 years old. She studied their language, cultures to be a nurse and settled in German society. She fell in love and got married. And then a woman came to her as in destiny. She divorced to choose her. She established hospice between companion-heterogeneous culture with life insurance in 2005. Furthermore, she received a plaque of appreciation from prime minister Angela Merkel for this act. The activities of ‘companion’ have been continued by German humanism association under the name of ‘hospice between companion and heterogeneous culture.

* k-book.or.kr/user/books/books_view?idx=5518

 

 

Korea, in a Bird’s Eye View: with Oriental Painting

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Korea, in a Bird’s Eye View: with Oriental Painting
Author | Ahn Choong Ki
Publisher | EAST-ASIA Publishing Co.
Publication Date | 2021-04-26
ISBN | 9788962623703
No. of pages | 215
Dimensions | 250 * 350

 

2. Book Intro

 

Korea, in a Bird’s Eye View is a collection of pen drawings that stacks up 32 South Korean cities into one brick wall. Alongside the drawings are historical descriptions of the regions and the people living in. Having majored in history, developing passion as a painter, and working as a reporter, Ahn introduces the realest of Korea, orbiting its diverse regions and people. The first chapter covers coastline cities. The second deals with inland cities. The third introduces bits and parts of the country’s capital city, Seoul. Finally, the last chapter illustrates the continent itself.

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