SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In the week following Han Kang’s historic Nobel Prize in Literature win, South Korean bookstores reported a remarkable 40% increase in sales, with older readers leading the buying surge. According to data analyzed by BC Card, major bookstore chains, both online and offline including Kyobo Book Centre, saw their sales [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of books written by Suzy Lee, who became the first South Korean to win the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Awards (HCAA), shot up more than 150 times after her award earlier this week, a local online bookstore said Wednesday. Lee was named the winner of the illustration section [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 1-trillion-won (US$823 million) art market is driving consumers to read more books about art investment. Yes24, a leading online bookstore, reported a 549 percent increase in art investment book sales last year, after they fell by 56.4 percent in 2019 and then grew by a mere 5.6 [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of fiction and poetry books at Yes24, a leading online bookstore, have continued to grow this year, as people spend more time at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company said Tuesday. The sales volume of novels, poetry and dramas have risen 8.3 percent year-on-year so far this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Interest in Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is quickly spreading. The idea was brought to the spotlight with WEF President Klaus Schwab’s visit to Korea this month, and sales of books related to future forecasts and upcoming business trends are soaring. Online bookstore Interpark Books saw a [...]