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Fortune Arabia launched in UAE and Kuwait

Business magazine Fortune launched an Arabian edition in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, Jim Jacovides of Time and Bashar Kiwan of AWI Company announced Tuesday. Fortune Arabia will add five more local issues by 2012, seeing the leading magazine publish 13 foreign-language editions, including Fortune Korea. The Middle East editions of Fortune will be published monthly, in Arabic, through a license agreement between Time and AWI Company. They expect to raise the standard of in-depth-business journalism and become a leading title in the Arab business magazine market. “With the economic shift taking place in the Arab world and the rise of corporate Arabia, the market requires a serious, high standard business title to provide the right analysis and information,” Kiwan said in a press release. “The Middle East is an increasingly important player in global business. With AWI, we are confident that the Fortune Middle East editions will provide in-depth analysis of business news globally, regionally and by country,” Time’s international licensing and development vice presid

Jun 22, 2011By Kwon Mee-yoo

Recent Books

Discovering Korea at the Start of the Twentieth Century Edited by Brother Anthony; The Academy of Korean Studies Press: 431 pp., $28 or 25,000 won The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch was founded in 1900 by several learned scholars, mostly missionaries such as Homer Bezaleel Hulbert, James S. Gale and H. H. Underwood, who experienced dramatic changes in Korean history. They published “Transactions,” an annual journal containing articles that recorded various aspects of Korea including its history and culture. Their writings are a window to Korea and also a fundamental means to in-depth study of Korean culture. The journal offered significant insights into how Korea was seen in the eyes of the early Western scholars. Hulbert wrote in his article “Korean Survivals” that points of similarity with the Chinese are the exception and that the survival of things purely native and indigenous is the rule. George Heber Jones penned “The Spirit Worship of the Koreans” and “Introduction to the Study of Buddhism in Corea” and Mark Napier Trollope wrote “Kang Hwa” on Korean shama

Jun 17, 2011

Gyujanggak: a trove of national treasures

By Chung Ah-young Established by King Jeongjo at Changdeok Palace in 1776 as a royal library and office for servants who worked as special consultants for the king, Gyujanggak (Kyujanggak) has been a trove for national treasures that hold abundant historical and cultural meaning even today. Despite the enormous significance of the archive, there has been little systemic or comprehensive research on history easily accessible to the public. To better help the public easily understand the library’s heritage particularly, a two-volume series — “Kyujanggak: Rediscovering Its History and Culture” and “Kyujanggak and the Cultural History of Books” — has been published in English by the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. This series is designed to introduce the collection to a wider audience, offering accessible and accurate information on the collection and how it was created. For the first time, it offers an English-speaking audience in-depth access to these treasures and their cultural significance. The book series is a historical overview of the developme

Jun 17, 2011

GQ director pens bold Perfectly Imperfect words

By Chung Ah-young Aristotle once put it: “Dramas should be complete and whole in themselves, with a beginning, a middle and an end ... with all the organic unity of a living creature.” The key to creating a story is to build it logically with each scene crafted and connected and thus each progression shapes it naturally. However, “Perfectly Imperfect” (Tree of Thoughts: 292 pp., 12,000 won) by Lee Choong-keol, the director of GQ Korea, one of the most popular magazines in the country, dismantles the conventional structure of the story by focusing more on the language elements to display the modern emotions through feeble, vulnerable characters.

Jun 10, 2011

Recent books

Writing Thinking Choi Gang-hyun, Bonlivre Publishing 304 pp., 13,000 won Writing is not easy. Everyone can write, but there are only a few who can write well. Writing becomes important in everyday life not only for students but also for office workers. Though it is a tough task to write well, it is becoming a very crucial weapon you need to arm with to succeed at workplaces. This book is different from other books about writing as the author unfolds stories based on lots of his experiences in newspaper and broadcasting companies. From the first step of making a headline to constructing anecdotes into a neatly-weaved, logical story, the author, a long-time reporter, illustrates writing skills in plain words. Readers will also have opportunities to learn about some practical skills about public speech and presentation. This book — strong in examples and details — will be a valuable guide for those who have trouble writing various articles or reports at their workplaces. There is no royal road to become a good writer except reading a lot. This book is a go

Jun 10, 2011

Cest Si Bon is all about friendship, music

By Chung Ah-young When elder singers Cho Young-nam, Yoon Hyung-joo, Song Chang-shik and Kim Se-hwan appeared in a special episode of MBC’s variety show “Come and Play” called “C’est Si Bon Concert” last year, no one expected the performance would start a craze for ’60s and ’70s folk music and an acoustic guitar boom. “C’est Si Bon” is the name of a music cafe which was located in Myeong-dong in the 1960s. It was home to numerous big-name singers such as Cho, Yoon, Song, Kim and Lee Jang-hee, Kim Min-gi who sang together there and spent their youth in politically and socially hard times. Their television performance in tune with acoustic guitar sounds immediately captivated the viewers; not only middle-aged fans but also those in their 20s and 30s. The singers presented the nostalgia-provoking folk music, popular back in 1960s and ’70s, and also told warm-hearted stories about their decades-long friendship. Their unfinished stories about the past are told through a new book “C’est Si Bon Era” written by Cho and published by Minumin. “I was surprised at the explo

Jun 8, 2011

Recent Books

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertation Wayne C. Booth et al; Translated by Kang Kyung-i from English to Korean: Sidae Books: 612 pp., 35,000 won For professors, students and researchers, following Turabian’s Chicago manual is the most common practice when writing a thesis, research paper or dissertation. But in Korea the manual has not been widely introduced so far despite its importance in international academic circles. The recent Korean publication of Turabian’s manual will help Korean students, researchers and professors make a breakthrough in writing English theses. Since it was first published in 1937, it has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. Kate L. Turabian first wrote the manual as a small leaflet to help students then, and it was published as a book in 1955. As time passed, the manual became a must-read book for many university students in the United States. Turabian passed away in 1987 when the fifth edition of the manual was released. The Korean version is the seventh edition, which extends the scope of the content supple

Jun 3, 2011

Goguryeo annals translated into English

'Goguryeo played fundamental role in makeup of Koreans today' By Chung Ah-young “Samguk Sagi” (The History of the Three Kingdoms) is the oldest extant history of the Silla, Goguryeo (Koguryo) and Baekje kingdoms, and the Unified Silla era of Korean history. Among others, the history of Goguryeo is the hottest subject as it has become a contested ground of Korean and Chinese nationalism. To help better understand Goguryeo’s role in East Asia, the English version of “The Koguryo Annals of the Samguk Sagi” has been published by the Academy of Korean Studies. The book was translated by Edward J. Shultz and Hugh H.W. Kang with Daniel C. Kane and Kenneth J. H. Gardiner. As dean of the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shultz who has a great interest in Korean history said that there is a lack of primary sources on Korea in English, and the work is in line with efforts by a number of Western scholars who have translated major sources such as “The Sourcebook of Korean Civilization” which was published in 1993. “Continuing with that tra

Jun 3, 2011

Kyobo Bookstore marks 30th anniversary

By Chung Ah-young Kyobo Bookstore, the nation’s largest and most famous bookstore, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Established in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, on June 1, 1981 Kyobo Bookstore opened while the nation was going through dramatic changes in social, economic and political fields. Since its inception, the bookstore has sought to become a cultural space in which visitors can freely read books and enjoy diverse learning events by shedding its old and conventional image. Currently, it has 10 stores in seven cities but the main and most popular one is the Gwanghwamun store. The Gwanghwamun store attracts some 15 million visitors a year and about 10 million books are sold annually. In 1991, the main store was renovated to standards of a world-class facility and in 2010 the bookstore was once again transformed to become an innovative cultural space by offering offline and online services as well as customer-oriented corners. Most notably, the bookstore has been a meeting place between Nobel Prize winners in Literature and other influential figures

Jun 1, 2011

Workshop tackles literature in digital era

By Chung Ah-young Books shape the imagination and thoughts of human beings and help them interact with literature as a container for ideas of an inspiring story in various literary forms such as the novel. However, the development of digital technology has brought a change in the conventional publishing industry and reading culture, and replaced the function of conventional forms through various channels such as blogs, e-books and social networks. To cope with the advent of digital media, authors, translators and experts will share

May 27, 2011
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