SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Korean novels achieved record high growth in the first half of this year amid the prolonged pandemic, the country’s biggest bookstore chain said Tuesday. According to Kyobo Book Center’s analysis of best sellers and book sales trends for the first half of this year (from January 1 to June [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The presence of Korean literature is growing widely in the world as local translations have won or been nominated for multiple prizes from literature awards outside of the country. An English translation of Chung Bora’s “Cursed Bunny” published by British publisher Honford Star was chosen as one of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982″ was the most popular South Korean literary book overseas over the recent five years, data showed Tuesday. According to the data from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, the feminist novel by Cho Nam-joo was translated into 10 different languages and sold more than 300,000 [...]