publishing industry

Korea’s government is funding translation support for roughly 40 domestic web novel publishers and platforms in 2026, offering up to 15 million won in reimbursed costs per company, an initiative …

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 …

Naver’s web novel platform Series has pulled ahead of longtime rival Kakao Page in Korea’s domestic web fiction market, according to 2026 usage data, as Kakao Page’s monthly active user …

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, …

Korea’s webtoon industry, built on a foundation of web novels adapted into serialized visual form, has officially crossed into the 2 trillion won revenue tier, but the growth curve that …

Korea’s web novel industry is getting a financial boost aimed squarely at export. The Korea Publication Culture Industry Promotion Agency, known as KPIPA, opened its 2026 web novel translation subsidy …

The Locus Awards, one of the most respected prizes in science fiction and fantasy publishing, added a Translated Novel category for the first time in 2026, and Korean authors immediately …

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 …

The webtoon adaptation of “Got Dropped Into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work” launched on KakaoPage on June 5, 2026, and immediately set the platform’s highest-ever hourly and daily transaction …