VOL.77/2024.12

#Celebrity’s Essay

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

2021.06.07

 

It’s Not Over Yet

1. Publication Details

 

Title | It’s Not Over Yet
Author | Kim Yeonkoung
Publisher | kayun
Publication Date | 2021-03-12
ISBN | 9788968970870
No. of pages | 280
Dimensions | 140 * 210

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Kang Hun
Email | 2001nov@naver.com
Phone | +82-2-858-2217

 

3. Book Intro

 

A world-class volleyball player whose top-level skills are acknowledged by everyone, Kim Yeon-koung has created a sensation in the Korean volleyball world with her overwhelming performance in attack and defense, which is made possible by her outstanding physical attributes. Kim has captivated people with her witty talk and girlish charm. This book talks about how Kim Yeon-koung has been able to grow into the only global star in the history of Korean women’s volleyball. Looking back from the moment she first started playing volleyball, she also tells an honest story about her own path to success.
Kim says that, whatever dreams you have in your heart, you have to challenge yourself. She adds that you have to be confident that you can do what you set your mind to, even when you’re faced with countless difficulties and obstacles. Confidence comes from believing in the person you are and trusting your hard work.

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To Us, Who Live as Women

1. Publication Details

 

Title | To Us, Who Live as Women
Author | Yozoh
Publisher | Munhakdongne Publishing Group
Publication Date | 2019-10-30
ISBN | 978895458355
No. of pages | 288
Dimensions | 124 * 188

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Lee Young-eun
Email | yelee@munhak.com
Phone | +82-31-955-2694

 

3. Book Intro

 

Here, there are two very different women like a “Camel” and a “Penguin.” One woman is honest and cool. The other woman thinks that she has a lot of pretense about what she says and does externally.
However, these two women are fun and interesting to each other. They start writing an “exchange diary” like young girls with a friendship no one else could invade. The two women who exchanged diaries that recorded everything they saw, felt, and experienced in their lives as female adults, were Yozoh and Lim Kyung-sun.
Lim Kyung-sun, is a vetran “author.” She began living as a writer since 2005, and she has published her 20th book including a revised version. And Yozoh, is a woman who connects stories and herself in many ways, ranging from musicians, writers, host of book podcasts, and owner of bookstore “All-Right”.
How did these two women’s secret stories end up in a book beyond the fence of chatter? What made them continue recording their own chats about ‘living as a woman, laughing and crying and laughing again after crying?’
The book started out from a project on Naver Audio Clip called the “EXCHANGE DIARY BETWEEN LIM AND YOZHO,” which two writers exchanged and shared their recording diaries. Recently in Korean publishing industry, audio-book production and distribution are becoming increasingly more active, but the two authors boldly chose to produce audio contents first and then publishing it as a book.
With Lim’s low and hard voice and Yozoh’s slow and soft voice, they created a dialogue of friendship and sympathy, which gathered many positive responses from women who actively listened to them, even though they didn’t have time to read a page during their busy lives.
While the two authors released the series of exchange diary on the Naver Audio Clip, audiences repeatedly asked them to upload a script. There were many good phrases used and it was difficult for listeners to write them all down. Six long texts were added to the 30 recorded files, which finally became a book.
From work to love, life, menstruation, sex, travel, money, freedom and the daily pains and battles they had to endure to get all of these, their writing as women without boundaries finally released to the world.

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My Way is the Best

1. Publication Details

 

Title | My Way is the Best
Author | Mina Sohn
Publisher | HANBIT MEDIA, Inc.
Publication Date | 2019-06-14
ISBN | 9791157843374
No. of pages | 296
Dimensions | 154 * 191

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Woo Seob Shin
Email | wsshin@hanbit.co.kr
Phone | +82-2-2180-8790

 

3. Book Intro

 

Traveling writer Mina Sohn, who used to present heart-throbbing tour stories, has returned to her self-improvement book this time. The book contains all the secrets of the author, who made surprising choices on every crossroads of life, including a travel writer, a startup CEO, a Huffpost editor and a life school principal, KBS announcer. There was a time when the author wandered on the road. A good university, a good job as an announcer, a lot of popularity, she constantly retorted on the road that seemed to be extremely good to others. ‘Is this really what I wanted?’ And in fact she realized that what she really wanted was something else. So she jumped into a new path. People around her dissuaded her, but she walked to the place where her heart was headed. And she realized that this was the way to find happiness.

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If You Could See What I Have Seen

1. Publication Details

 

Title | If You Could See What I Have Seen
Subtitle | Actor Jung Woosung meets refugees
Author | Jung Woosung
Publisher | Bulkwang Media
Publication Date | 2019-06-20
ISBN | 9788998602963
No. of pages | 216
Dimensions | 135 * 200

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Choi Changho
Email | pepsichoi@naver.com
Phone | +82-2-420-3200

 

3. Book Intro

 

The story of the actor Jung Woosung as he meets refugees. As a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jung has visited a refugee settlement at least once a year since 2014 to learn of their plight firsthand and publicize it in Korea. These are a collection of his experiences and thoughts, and the stories of the refugees he has met along the way. He professes that he was moved to write a book about his experiences because “If anyone goes into a refugee settlement and listens to their stories, they will have no doubt as to the need to help these people and the important role the UNHCR plays around the world.”

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Ordinary Languages

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Ordinary Languages
Subtitle | Allowing Me to Breathe
Author | Kim Eana
Publisher | Wisdomhouse Mediagroup Inc.
Publication Date | 2020-05-27
ISBN | 9791190786355
No. of pages | 268
Dimensions | 137 * 194

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Julia Kwon
Email | ohappyday@wisdomhouse.co.kr
Phone | +82-31-936-4199

 

3. Book Intro

 

The author, a leading lyricist of Korea, has divided her concept into three “languages.” First, the “language of relationships” tells us that “drawing a line” with others is important and that it is not for distancing but for opening our minds and becoming closer. Second, the “language of emotions” offers a glimpse into her expressive ability to describe the unique emotions behind words. Third, the “language of self-esteem” is filled with words that make us reflect on our attitudes and ways of life. Kim’s success as a lyricist tells the story of the painstaking and harsh process of survival without any unnecessary fluff.

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Makrye Park - I Can’t Go Just Yet

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Makrye Park - I Can’t Go Just Yet
Author | Park Makrye
Publisher | Wisdomhouse Mediagroup Inc.
Publication Date | 2019-05-31
ISBN | 9791190065672
No. of pages | 344
Dimensions | 140 * 205

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Julia Kwon
Email | ohappyday@wisdomhouse.co.kr
Phone | +82-31-936-4199

 

3. Book Intro

 

Makrye Park- I Can’t Go Just Yet is the story of a woman who was named “Makrye” (meaning last in Korean) for being born as the youngest of seven sibling. Starting from the first half of her life, which can’t be read without crying, this story becomes ridiculously exciting after she becomes a Youtuber, later meeting the CEOs of Youtube and Google. It also includes behind-the-scenes story of PD Kim Yura, who brought her grandmother’s charm from behind the camera, and answers questions of many people interested in YouTube production, including fans of the YouTube channel Korea Grandma.
When you open the book, it begins with the first half of the life of Park Makrye, who was born in 1947. The youngest daughter of a farmer, she grew up doing all the house works and was not allowed to learn to read as a woman. She got married at age 20, but had to raise her three kids by herself as her husband was never home.Starting from hard labor work, she went on to work as a fruit seller, malt seller, flower seller, maid and restaurant worker. She tried her best just to live, somehow, but was scammed twice by the harsh world. After diverse hardships, she opened a small restaurant in Yongin and worked there for 40 years, starting her work every day at 4 a.m. Living hard just to make it to the next day, at 70 years old she thought she would die that way.
One day, Park Makrye was diagnosed with dementia risk at the hospital. Her sisters were all diagnosed with dementia in turn, and she did not know when her time would come. Hearing the news, her granddaughter, Kim Yura, rushed over and nagged her to travel to Australia. She also gave up her job because she couldn’t let her grandmother die like that...
Nobody knew that her trip to Australia with her granddaughter would be the beginning of the second phase of her life. “My life has turned upside down, like flipping a mattress over,” she laughed with mighty guffaw. She never imagined that fans from all over the world would like to her, that she’d be invited to Google I/O and visit Google HQ for 2 consecutive years, or meet one-on-one with Youtube CEO Susan and Google CEO Sundar. Everything in this world may seem like dumb luck, but reading this book, you will see that this 70-year-old’s hard work has finally born fruit.

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Montage of Chan-Wook Park

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Montage of Chan-Wook Park
Author | Park Chanwook
Publisher | Maumsanchaek
Publication Date | 2005-12-10
ISBN |  8989351812
No. of pages | 299
Dimensions | 145 * 225

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Sung Hyehyun
Email | hyun@maumsan.com
Phone | +82-2-362-1452

 

3. Book Intro

 

The term montage usually refers to a composite picture for finding a suspect. It’s also used in filmmaking to refer to a technique in which a number of short shots are sequenced together to condense time and information. This, the first collection of prose by director Park Chan-wook, reveals a side of Park never before seen on the big screen. It forms a montage of Park’s charming impudence using columns, essays, written/self interviews, and production journals. Park’s journey to becoming a globally-known director and the stories that take place between the shots of a film camera are humorously told through the director’s own words.

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Thoughts on Soccer

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Thoughts on Soccer
Author | Son Heungmin
Publisher | Brainstore publishing
Publication Date | 2020-08-21
ISBN | 9791188073559
No. of pages | 312
Dimensions | 152 * 225

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Yang Eunji
Email | garam815@chol.com
Phone | +82-2-3275-2915

 

3. Book Intro

 

If one were to ask who history’s greatest soccer player in both Korea and all of Asia is, the answer would be the “Son-sational” Son Heungmin. The world-renowned Son is always in the spotlight due to his excellent skills, humanity, and fashion sense. He is indeed a superstar. Despite his fame, he is still an earnest 27-year-old young man who is always wearing his innocent smile.
Readers can hear true stories about Son behind the spotlight: strict training since his childhood by his father, a teacher who was not bound to conventional education; an arduous period during which he overcame the difficulties of living away from home and was a star player on every team he played for in Hamburg, Leverkusen, and London; his supporters and Tottenham; and the personal experiences he had as a member of the South Korean national team.

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I Always Turn Barefaced at Art Museums

1. Publication Details

 

Title | I Always Turn Barefaced at Art Museums
Subtitle | The paintings, artists, and art that enabled me to withstand long nights
Author | Lee Saera
Publisher | Tornado MediaGroup
Publication Date | 2020-07-10
ISBN | 9791158511814
No. of pages | 344
Dimensions | 140 * 205

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Park Eunhwa; Shin Haeun
Email | peh@tornadobook.com; midnightbookstore@naver.com
Phone | +82-2-332-7706

 

3. Book Intro

 

The author of this book introduces 31 artists. You may have encountered artists before at the Seoul Arts Center, the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, but some artists are probably so unknown to you that you’ve never even heard their names.
Why and how were these artists and works of art selected by the author? The artists and the works in this book deliver encouragement and consolation to those living through the current reality of COVID-19.
As you read this book, you will realize that these passionate artists who so desperately stayed true to their values are not special people with extraordinary genes. You will find that their works can still make you smile or cry even without requiring any background knowledge. You will see that art doesn’t have to be something that is elegant, showy, and tough to understand.

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Joking about Wanting to Live

1. Publication Details

 

Title | Joking about Wanting to Live
Subtitle | Her Jiwoong
Author | Lee Saera
Publisher | Woongjin ThinkBig Co., Ltd.
Publication Date | 2020-08-12
ISBN | 9788901244600
No. of pages | 276
Dimensions | 124 * 488

 

2. Copyright Contact

 

Name | Woongjin Think Big Foreign Rights Team
Email | copyright@wjtb.net
Phone | +82-31-956-7580

 

3. Book Intro

 

This book contains 25 stories that he wants to tell to those who are tired and don’t have a place to rest, as well as those who carry a heavy burden on their shoulders and struggle to remain steadfast. In this book, Her says, “Misfortune is not the villain riding in the front car of the Snowpiercer but the snow that continues to fall outside of the train.” He suggests that readers acknowledge unhappiness as an emotion to be embraced in one’s life and urges them to examine their lives subjectively.

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