The Seoul International Book Fair (SIBF), the country’s largest literary festival, will return to Coex in southern Seoul next ...

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 ...

The Korea Heritage Service has released 10 English-language books on Korean history and culture, making them available to domestic and international readers through major bookstores and online ...

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 ...

K-dramas to K-pop have placed South Korea at the center of the media universe. Are K-books about to join them? Most prominently, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International ...

When Ogasawara Chiaki, a Japanese woman, read “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982”, a South Korean novel about sexism, she recognised the subject matter. Like the protagonist, Kim Ji-young, Ms Ogasawara was ...

Today, I see Korean books on so many global publishers’ lists and their popularity continues to grow. But when I sold my first Korean book in 2005, little did I know that this was the beginning of new ...

A new book and exhibition trace the remarkable lives of Park Seo-Bo, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Lee Ufan, and Kim Whanki. Inside a vitrine in "The Making of Modern Korean Art: The Letters of Kim Tschang-Yeul, ...

The Seoul International Book Fair has proven to be unexpectedly “hot.” Last year, the event drew attention as early bird ...

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The new head of the Korean Publishers Association is focusing on what he calls “AI readers,” artificial intelligence systems that read books and interact with their content, as the industry adapts to ...