SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With quarantine restrictions being lifted for incoming vaccinated travelers to South Korea, more people are gaining interest in books about foreign travel. Kyobo Bookstore reported a 28.5 percent sales increase for books about traveling overseas between February 25 and March 24. The government lifted quarantine restrictions on incoming travelers [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Heightened interest in earning extra income through side-jobs is resulting in a growing number of related publications. Books about smart stores or generating profit on social media, in particular, are gaining popularity. Yes24, a leading online bookstore, reported that among books about secondary jobs, 36.3 percent were books that [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the number of South Koreans who buy more than 100 books a year is increasing. According to Kyobo Book Center, South Korea’s biggest bookstore chain, the number of readers who bought more than 100 books last year was up by 9.5 percent compared [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are borrowing far fewer books at libraries following the coronavirus outbreak. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service conducted a survey of 433 universities across the country, which showed that each enrolled student borrowed an average of 2.3 books between March 2020 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms are stepping up to allow employees to read more books by offering subsidies for buying books or opening up company libraries. Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division, began offering coupons to thousands of management employees that give unlimited access to e-books. Kyung, himself [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean adults and students both spent less time reading books last year, a survey showed Monday. The survey on the reading habits of South Koreans conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism showed that adults read an annual average of 4.5 books over the past year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 40 percent of South Koreans read works of literature such as poetry, novels and essays last year, with each person reading an average of two books. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted a survey of 2,000 citizens over 15 years of age, which showed that the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum has been reported to contain false information about South Korea, a civic group said Wednesday. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) revealed that page 259 of Kaplan’s AP Human Geography Prep Plus 2020 & 2021 contains serious errors about the South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education and the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said Tuesday that they will jointly launch a new service using artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend books on the basis of an analysis of students’ reading history and activities. The ‘Book Fruit’ service employs an AI recommendation [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the deepening of economic and academic gaps resulting from the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap in reading competency is also widening, a local research institute said Monday. According to a survey conducted by the Books & Society Research Institute of 3,000 respondents over [...]