book export

The 2026 K-Book Copyright Market, held at the Lotte Hotel World in Seoul’s Songpa district, brought together 100 overseas publishing companies from 31 countries for roughly 1,850 individual rights meetings …

Requests from overseas publishers for Korean-language literature translation and publication support jumped 145.5 percent between 2021 and 2025, rising from 156 cases to 383, according to Korea’s Ministry of Culture, …

South Korea’s two major literary institutions are merging their pipelines — one that funds Korean writers at home, the other that gets their books translated abroad — into a single, …