SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean coming-of-age novel “Almond,” written by Sohn Won-pyung, has sold 1 million copies five years after its release, the book’s publisher said Tuesday. Changbi Publishers said it has issued a special edition of “Almond,” which was first published in 2017, to celebrate the book passing the million marker. [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of the period drama “Pachinko,” based on the namesake English novel and released by Apple TV+ last month, has fanned the sales of the Korean translation of its original book here in South Korea. The translation of “Pachinko,” published in March 2018 by local publisher Literature [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans nearly halved their spending on books over the years from 2010 to 2018 as fewer people picked up the paper medium, data showed Friday. The average monthly spending on books by a South Korean household came to 12,054 won (US$10.40) as of 2018, compared with 21,902 won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — “The Vegetarian,” a Man Booker International-winning novel by South Korean author Han Kang, will make a theatrical debut in the writer’s home country next year. The National Theater Company of Korea plans to premier the theater version of “The Vegetarian” from May to June next year at its Theater [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A best-selling Korean feminist novel topped an online sales list in China, becoming a major overseas hit after also achieving success in Japan, a publication house said Thursday. “Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982″ by Cho Nam-joo ranked atop the fiction sales list on Dangdang, China’s biggest online bookstore, on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A young adult novel on Japan’s wartime sexual slavery, which was recently translated into English, will hit the shelves in the United States and other countries this year to recount the devastation of the Japanese wartime atrocity, according to its publisher Thursday. The 248-page novel, “Trampled Blossoms: What They [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean literature attracted international attention with Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. And to add to the heightened interest, the Korea Foundation (KF), which operates under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is hosting what it calls a ‘Korean Literary Workshop for International Doctoral Program [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – “Doubting whether I could really write well was the biggest obstacle I had to overcome. I tried to remember that I was desperate to write every time I felt that way.” Han Kang, who recently won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction with her novel “The Vegetarian”, sat down for [...]