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2nd Week, May 2024

Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea

 

2024.06.03

 

May is known as the month of family in Korea, as there are many big and small holidays, such as Children’s Day and Parent’s Day. The 2nd week of May, especially with Children’s Day, was a great time to catch up on the books people have been meaning to read. As such, the integrated list of best sellers on major online bookstores in Korea for the week was dominated by business, self-help, and humanities books.
The first book on the list is No. 3, How to LIVE Your Life, about the writer’s belief that investing can bridge the gap between the rich and poor and reduce social inequality. The book is divided into 3 chapters, covering investment strategies, methods, and attitudes. Another self-help book by football coach Son Woong-Jung, the father of football player Son Heung-Min, who has been excelling at home and abroad, entered the top 10. Featuring Son Woong-Jung’s reading notes and several interviews with poet Kim Min-Jung, I Read, Write, and Throw Out is a heartwarming and humorous book that gives life lessons. Meanwhile, Yoo Sun-Kyung, the writer who shed light on the topic of vocabulary and literacy, has released a transcribing note, as her new book. One Page a Day: A Transcribing Note for Your Vocabulary is not just a book about transcription, but a practical guide that will help you improve your vocabulary, literacy, and concentration, as you practice transcription one page at a time.

 

* K-Book Trends Vol. 49 – Go to the interview with writer Yoo Sun-Kyung

 

The No. 1 and No. 2 of the top five best sellers in the children’s category for the 2nd week of May were books by well-known writers both in Korea and abroad. For example, Magic Candy Recipe by Baek Hee-Na, No. 1, is a spin-off of Magic Candies (Bear Books Inc.), which was loved by readers around the world, featuring a story of making magic candies following the previous story of eating them. It is a book that makes readers curious and enthralled to find out what story the magic candies, which enable you to listen to people’s minds, will tell this time. The No. 2 book, Carrot Grandma, is written by Bonsoir Lune, who has been praised by readers around the world for having a brilliant sensibility of Korean picture books in her works. It is a family-friendly picture book that the whole family can read and talk about together, conveying the love of a grandmother who wants to feed her children to the fullest.

 

* K-Book Trends Vol. 26 – Go to the interview with writer Baek Hee-Na

 

* The rank of best sellers below was organized after integrating domestic best sellers in the second week of May from the four biggest online bookstores in Korea – Kyobo Bookstore, Aladdin, Yes 24, and Interpark.

 

Top 10 best sellers for the 2nd week of May

 

1위

 

Understatement
Author│Matthias Nöllke
Publisher│First Penguin
Genre│Self-help

 

2위

 

Live English Conversation with Mr. Red Cap
Author│Shin Yong-Ha
Publisher│Woongjin Jisik House
Genre│Foreign Language

 

3위

 

How to LIVE Your Life
Author│Lee Gwang-Soo
Publisher│Eden House
Genre│Business

 

4위

 

Same as Ever
Author│Morgan Housel
Publisher│Seosamdok
Genre│Business

 

5위

 

Common Siblings 16
Author│Hunhan Nammae
Publisher│Mirae N (I-Seum)
Genre│Children’s Comics

 

6위

 

I Read Brain Science When My Life Falters
Author│Yuji Ikegaya
Publisher│Hicks
Genre│Humanities

 

6위

 

Sayno Love
Author│Sayno
Publisher│Day One
Genre│Self-help

 

8위

 

I Read, Write, and Throw Out
Author│Son Woong-Jung
Publisher│Nanda
Genre│Self-help

 

9위

 

Don’t Need a Path of Flowers, My Life is a Flower
Author│Oh Pyung-Seon
Publisher│Forest Books
Genre│Non-fiction
10 

 

9위

 

One Page a Day: A Transcribing Note for Your Vocabulary
Author│Yoo Seon-Kyeong
Publisher│Wisdom House
Genre│Humanities
10 

 

9위

 

Reading Schopenhauer at Forty
Author│Kang Yong-Soo
Publisher│Uknowbooks
Genre│Humanities

 

 

Top 5 children’s books for the 2nd week of May
1

 

1위

 

Magic Candy Recipe
Author│Baek Hee-Na
Publisher│Story Bowl

 

2위

 

Carrot Grandma
Author│Bonsoir Lune
Publisher│Changbi Publishers
3

 

2위

 

The Not-So-Friendly Friend
Author│Christina Furnival
Publisher│Little Forest
4

 

2위

 

100-story House in the Swamp
Author│Toshio Iwai
Publisher│Book Bank
4

 

4위

 

I’m Happy When...
Author│Annabel Segura
Publisher│Orange Pencil

 

 

 


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