Language & Literature

3.58 Million Copies Sold Across 40 Languages According to statistics released by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) on July 28, 2026, Korean literary works sold a cumulative …

260,000 Korean Textbooks for Overseas Schools South Korea’s Ministry of Education will distribute roughly 260,000 Korean-language textbooks to regular elementary and secondary schools overseas in 2026, alongside nine newly developed …

The Same Price Printed on Every Copy The number printed on the back cover of a book is a plain sale price, but it’s also a kind of promise binding …

Reading Without Opening a Book The word “reading” once meant, quite literally, running one’s eyes over printed characters. But for a commuter with earbuds in, listening to a novel on …

A Classroom Carrying Sejong’s Name Is Spreading Across the World In 2026, five hundred and eighty years after King Sejong promulgated Hangeul, his name has outgrown its place in a …

A Translation Is Not a Copy of the Original, But a Rewriting in Another Language The moment a translator carries the first sentence of a Korean novel into English, several …

Translation Is Not a Border Crossed, But a New Room for Reading Built When a novel written in one language is carried into another, the reader does not simply encounter …

“Roots” Is Not the Memorization of a Past — It Is the Rewriting of a Language For a Korean American child growing up in the United States, Korean often survives …

The Room Where Hangeul Is Taught Now Exists in 89 Countries A language, more often than not, crosses borders by following the people who carry it. It is there in …

First Korean Language Textbook for Overseas Korean Preschoolers It is a quiet but significant turn in the long history of Korean language education abroad: this year, the Ministry of Education, …