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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising interest in pets is leading to a growing popularity of books on cats. Yes24, a leading online bookstore, reported a 2.7 times increase in the number of books on cats, going from 60 books in 2010 to 160 in 2020. This year, there have been 111 new publications [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of interior design and home organization books have marked robust growth on the back of the prolonged ‘stay-at-home’ trend resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to local online bookstore Yes 24, sales of the books that are classified as ‘interior design’ and ‘arrangement and storage’ in the [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of books borrowed by students from university libraries plunged last year. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service reported that each college student borrowed an average of four books at university libraries last year, a significant drop from the average of 8.3 [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of private investors, demand for books related to investment is also on the rise. Major online shopping mall Gmarket reported a 71 percent jump in sales of books related to stock investment between March 1 and 25, compared to the same period last year. A [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Tuesday that it will keep the current fixed book price system, which is aimed at helping local publishers stay afloat, nearly unchanged but will ease some discount regulations for customers. Under the government-led fixed price system, which was first launched in 2003 and refreshed [...]