Ridibooks, which claims to be South Korea’s largest e-book vendor, announced that it has raised a $8 million Series B to improve its user experience and reach new customers. Investors include NeoPlux, ...

Pulitzer Prize work of fiction that despite a rather far-fetched plot really “operationalizes” and brings to life the social system described by Robert Collins work on Songbun. Probably one of the ...

More than a thousand ancient Korean books of academic value in a U.S. university and a Japanese library are now available on the Internet as a South Korean university has recently begun an online ...

Visitors to Koryo Books stroll about in no rush. They browse through the “Boy Group” music collection, flip through Korean language books, and scan the back of the store for souvenirs representing ...

In honor of the Winter Olympics taking place now in Pyeongchang, I visited Koreatown’s bookstores. (Don’t miss our Koreatown guide). With new, used and specialty shops stocking comic books and manga, ...

In the South Korean army, some writings of the American leftist Noam Chomsky are, literally, forbidden. Last week, South Korea’s constitutional court upheld a controversial ban on 23 books that ...

As translated fiction enters the global limelight, Korean books are being discovered by a wider audience beyond the country's borders. With the help of the massive inventory retained by DB Books, ...

The news that Amazon signed up for a big office in the Gangnam district, one of the most affluent places in Seoul, has made South Korean publishing companies nervous. It seems that the biggest e-book ...

A visit to the Gwanghwamun branch of Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookstore chain, provides many clues to the country’s present book market. Tables of test preparation books and shelves of English-language ...

Sales of Korean literature abroad more than doubled in 2024, driven by a wave of international enthusiasm and a historic Nobel Prize win by Han Kang, according to new data released by the Literature ...

What happens when the comic book evolves for the future? For decades, the comic book and even the newspaper comic strip have maintained a certain look and format. But now, with the omnipresence of ...