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Sun, May 27, 2018 | 16:37

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Historical books on demand with box office hits

Historical books featuring stories of current box office hits such as “Dunkirk,” “The Battleship Island” and the upcoming “A Taxi Driver” are receiving renewed attention. As the three biggest highly anticipated films for this summer happen to deal with modern historical events, people are reading the books about these topics as the popular movies. The book “Dunkirk,” by Edwar...

Books | 2017-07-31 18:13

GKL Foundation launches literature translation award

The Grand Korea Leisure (GKL) Foundation has created a new translation award called the "Global Korea Literature Translation Award." The foundation was established in 2014 by the public corporation Grand Korea Leisure Co. Ltd, an affiliate of the Korea Tourism Organization that operates foreigner-only casinos in the country, and is funded by the GKL Co. Ltd.

Books | 2017-07-28 16:59

Limited editions exclusively available at samll, independent bookstores

Mimumsa, one of the largest book publishers in Korea, has released two special edition books only available at small independent bookstores. The publisher announced Saturday they will sell “Record of a Journey to Mujin,” by Kim Seung-ok and “No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai, at some 130 small bookstores nationwide for the first time. The two special editions cannot be purchase...

Books | 2017-07-24 19:24

“Women are more likely to be rich”: Yoo

Yoo Soo-jin, 42, celebrity asset manager and author, has earned popularity by giving “spot-on” lectures on becoming rich, especially for young female office workers, on local variety television shows. Her book “Rich Sister, Rich Lecture: How an ordinary office worker can become rich,” first published in 2015 and whose 19th edition was released in June, has met with a strong r...

Books | 2017-07-21 16:42

Ansan Media Library helps community learn English

ANSAN -- A woman in her 30s surnamed Kim visits a nearby library three times a week with her two daughters, ages five and six. At the library, located in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, she spends time reading English books with her children. “In this hot weather, I feel lucky to have this library near my home. Outside it’s hot, but we can stay cool here and I can narrate stories f...

Books | 2017-07-20 17:39

Understanding the North Korean regime

I am anxious to read any book or monograph that will help me understand the incomprehensible North Korean regime. How many people in the world can understand the totalitarian country ruled by one family over 70 years since 1945? Under that family rule, many people have starved to death, as the government funded heavy arms development programs, from those for nuclear warheads ...

Books | 2017-07-14 16:50

'Jokbo' exhibition reveals diverse family trees

Most Koreans are familiar with the "jokbo," or genealogy, of their own family. Though the well-known, commonly seen family trees only document male members of the family and are criticized for being patriarchal, an exhibition at the National Library of Korea (NLK) sheds light on various types of jokbo, such as early ones that included both men and women, and a directory of oc...

Books | 2017-07-07 16:55

TV show sheds new light on ex-minister Rhyu's 'On Ways of Living'

Riding on the popularity of tvN’s new show “Dictionary of Useless General Knowledge,” politician-turned-writer Rhyu Si-min’s book “On Ways of Living” joined the top 10 bestseller list this week. Rhyu wrote the book in March 2013 when he became a full-time writer. It did not gain much popularity then. But it has grabbed attention four years later when the former environment mi...

Books | 2017-06-30 19:49

Urim Books CEO to lead CBA Korea Organization

Leading Korean publishing executive Noh Kyung-tae, CEO of Urim Books, was named the new director of CBA Korea. CBA President Curtis Riskey commemorated his new position during UNITE 2017, CBA’s international convention, in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29. The position has been vacant since 2014, and Noh recognized the need for leadership among Christian publishing and retailing com...

Books | 2017-06-30 16:51

Media startup CEO challenges newspaper industry

At a time when traditional media companies are struggling to create revenue and produce quality content at the same time, there's a startup that's doing both _ PUBLY. The media startup, which was established two years ago and officially began operations last year, is rapidly gaining a reputation and ferociously expanding _ both in the number of projects it initiates as well a...

Books | 2017-06-27 16:35

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