SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Books about the newly elected president of South Korea are selling like hotcakes, with sales of some books up fourfold as public interest in Moon Jae-in is peaking after he was sworn into office yesterday. Among the books, Mon’s autobiography “The Fate of Moon Jae-in” is proving particularly popular, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of 76 small and medium-sized bookstores are ready to open a portal online service to provide various information on books and bookstores as they are struggling to find a way out from financial difficulties, according to publishing industry sources on Tuesday. The Korea Federation of Bookstore Association [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that its advanced indoor location-based service (LBS) platform ‘Wizturn’ is bringing innovative changes to the O2O market by enabling the development and launch of ‘WingK,’ a new type of indoor-based service for Korea’s largest bookstore chain Kyobo Book Center. Wizturn (www.wizturnhub.com) is SK [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Korea in August, the Korean publishing world enjoys favorable sales of books related to the pope. Besides, a score of books on his apostolic exhortation, homilies and even his life has been published and gains the public’s attentions. According to Kyobo [...]