Korean literature

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, …

Walk into a Kyobo Book Centre in Seoul this month and the crowd looks different from a few years ago: more people in their 20s, fewer of them just browsing …

Walk into a Kyobo Book Center anywhere in Korea this month and the book stacked highest at the front table is “Project Hail Mary” — a science-fiction novel by an …