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Transcription: The Rising Star of the K-Education and Parenting Market

Knowledge Transcription: The Rising Star of the K-Education and Parenting Market 2026.04 Why Transcription is Returning to the Forefront of Education Transcription books have consistently expanded their readership within the Korean publishing market. While they once primarily served adult readers seeking self-improvement or emotional healing, recent years have seen a distinct shift: transcription books are now merging with child education to form a prominent new trend. Parents no longer view transcription as mere copying. Instead, they embrace it as a profound method of reading—one that involves slowly digesting high-quality sentences, tracing them by hand, and anchoring those thoughts within oneself. By shifting away from the fast-reading habits where content is quickly consumed and forgotten, transcription has gained new educational significance as a practice of deep focus, f...

VOL.93 / 2026.04

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Korean Publishing Market Trends in 2025 and Outlook for 2026

Topic Korean Publishing Market Trends in 2025 and Outlook for 2026 2026.01.05 Trends in 2025: A Year of Digital Transformation and Practical, Stability-Oriented Content In 2025, Korea’s publishing market underwent noticeable shifts in the ways readers discovered, selected, and consumed books, as digital transformation accelerated and social and economic uncertainty deepened. On the surface, the overall market size appeared relatively stable. Beneath that stability, however, structural changes became increasingly clear: the number of new titles grew significantly, while the average print run per title declined. As supply expanded, the actual market reach secured by individual titles continued to narrow. These changes were further shaped by the expansion of generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and intensified competition from OTT (Over-the-Top) platforms. Together, t...

VOL.90 / 2026.01

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The Third Chapter of the Korea Picture Book Award: The New Landscape of Korean Picture Books

Knowledge The Third Chapter of the Korea Picture Book Award:The New Landscape of Korean Picture Books 2025.12.01 The Introduction of the “Korea Picture Book Award” and the Winners in 2025 The “Korea Picture Book Award,” jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) and the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA), marks its 3rd year since its launch in 2023. This year, a total of 9 titles were selected: 2 Grand Prize winners (one each in Fiction and Nonfiction), 6 Special Prize winners (2 Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Awards and 4 President of the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea Awards), and 1 Rookie of the Year Award recipient. Eligible works were picture books created, published, and distributed in Korea between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. The total prize amount was KRW 112 million - KRW 85 million awarded to authors, and KRW 3 million granted to each publisher of the winni...

VOL.89 / 2025.12

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AI Reshapes the Reading Landscape

Topic AI Reshapes the Reading Landscape From technology to everyday language 2025.10.02 A “quiet revolution” in our bookshelves According to statistics from the online bookstore Aladin, out of roughly 65,000 new titles published in a single year, no fewer than 2,027 carried the keyword “artificial intelligence (AI).” Even more striking is the pace: of the 5,719 AI-related books registered with Aladin to date, fully 35.4%, more than one-third, were released in just this past year. This is no mere trend, but a market-shaking “explosion.” This surge is fundamentally unlike the period before ChatGPT. In the past, the AI section was filled with specialist texts on machine learning and deep learning for developers; now it has been taken over by practical guides and business strategy titles targeting professionals, creators, and small-business owners. The tidal surge of AI has at last broken free of specialist domains and swept into everyday life. &nb...

VOL.87 / 2025.10

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The Meaning Behind Korea’s “Copybook” Craze

Topic The Meaning Behind Korea’s “Copybook” Craze The Analog Comeback in a Digital Age 2025.05.07 The Return of Analog Sensibility with “Text-Hip” Culture Professor Kim Nan-Do, author of the book Trend Korea 2025 (Mirae Books), picked the “appeal of materiality” as one of the consumer trends in Korea this year. It is the power to make people not only appreciate content with their eyes, but also want to touch it physically. This is manifested in the “materialization of content” phenomenon. Kim explains that in the age of immateriality, where everything is digitized, people still crave something they can experience with their hands. This explains the recent craze for “transcription books” in the Korean book and publishing market. It is an era where all information is reduced to images and videos. People exposed to all kinds of digital content are now seeking the pleasure of holding a pen, touching paper, and seeing the contents of a book in ...

VOL.82 / 2025.05

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AI Digital Textbook Policy and the Publishing Industry

Knowledge AI Digital Textbook Policy and the Publishing Industry 2025.02.17 The “AI Digital Textbook” vision: 5 million textbooks for 5 million students! “5 million textbooks for 5 million students.” This is the vision set forth by the Ministry of Education, the main policy maker for national education in Korea, in June 2023 when it announced plans to promote AI digital textbooks. AI digital textbooks are textbooks loaded with various learning materials and learning aid features using intellectual information technology, such as AI, to support a variety of customized learning opportunities that match students’ abilities and levels. They are an innovative policy focusing on the pure mission of normalizing public education through educational transformation by using textbooks that incorporate AI, the most significant topic of the era.In accordance wit...

VOL.79 / 2025.02

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Contradictions and Hopes of Life, Unfolded Through Intimate Conversations

New Books Contradictions and Hopes of Life,Unfolded Through Intimate Conversations 2026.07 Kim Hye-ri, The Books We Loved, Boogie Woogie, 2026. The Books We Loved by Kim Hye-ri, is a reflection on the truths and shadows of life examined from various angles. As a veteran film journalist, Kim has long communicated with the public through reviews and columns. She has been praised by fellow critics as a model of film criticism, delivering the sincerity, fiction, tragedy, and hope embedded in cinema through her deep and thoughtful perspective. While moving within film circles, her experience introducing movies on the radio led her to launch the specialized film podcast 〈Kim Hye-ri’s Film Club〉 in 2016, alongside producer Choi Da-eun and actress Im Soo-jung. As Kim grew accustomed to discussing cinema through spoken words rather than writte...

VOL.96 / 2026.07

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What Do Life and Death Look Like for Single-Person Households in South Korea?

New Books What Do Life and Death Look Likefor Single-Person Households in South Korea? 2026.06 Kim Su-Young, The Inevitable Loneliness, 2026. In 2021, Professor Kim Su-Young, author of The Inevitable Loneliness, launched the 〈ALONE〉 project, a two-year study documenting the lives of 109 single-person households. This book brings to light the stories of 56 participants from that research. As of August 2025, South Korea officially entered an era where single-person households exceed ten million. Recognizing that living alone is a structural landscape carved out by late-industrial society, the author conceptualizes this phenomenon as a mechanism of self-production and self-reproduction. Under the heavy shadows of an unstable labor market and a rapidly aging society, individuals in single-person households must live as the sole authors of ...

VOL.95 / 2026.06

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What If You Encountered Your Own Clone One Day?

New Books What If You Encountered Your Own Clone One Day? 2026.05 Can Hate Be Replicated?, Yoon, Hye-seong, 2026. Yoon, Hye-seong’s debut novel, Can Hate Be Replicated?, has been released as part of the "Short Series" by Safe House (Anjeongaok), a publisher specializing in genre fiction. Safe House is a production studio that creates and distributes stories for "fandoms" of genres such as SF, fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance. Author Yoon previously co-wrote the script for the K-drama 〈The Dream Life of Mr. Kim〉. While that drama offered a realistic and satirical portrayal of the lives of Korean office workers, Can Hate Be Replicated? explores a deeply human story of alienation, conflict, and the eventual downfall of a couple facing extreme suffering. The novel is categorized as a "Gyeong-jangpyeon," a format that can be described as a novella—a medi...

VOL.94 / 2026.05

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How close are we, and how far apart?

New Books How close are we, and how far apart? 2026.04 Kim Yeon-su, Hirano Keiichiro, Nearby World (2026) Nearby World, a collaborative project planned and written by Kim Yeon-su and Hirano Keiichiro, prominent novelists representing Korea and Japan, has been published. Nearby World is the first installment of the Cross series, in which two authors living in different languages and cultures select a theme, in this case, ethical dilemmas, and each complete a work to be bound into a single volume. Author Kim Yeon-su explains that the term ethical is not a binary distinction between right and wrong, but rather an attitude of contemplating each person's own truth and sense of rightness within events where the desires of countless humans are intertwined. The volume includes Kim Yeon-su's Our Failure followed by Hirano Keiichiro's The Decisive Moment, concluding w...

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