K-Book Trends Vol.73


Book Description

K-Book Trends is a web magazine published by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA). It offers Korea’s highly informative publishing content to those in the global publishing industry, helping the Korean publishing industry build global competitiveness. We produce professional data about promising Korean books for overseas markets and share success cases of Korean publications and copyright export. We also provide those in the global publishing industry with rich information collected from Korea’s major international book fair activities, as well as the latest news on bestselling books, and an overview of the Korean publishing industry. K-Book Trends can be easily read online anywhere in the world either on a PC or mobile device. Readers can also subscribe to receive email newsletters and download the issues in PDF format. K-Book Trends www.kbooktrends.com Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea always look forward to hearing opinions related to K-Book Trends from industry experts and readers.




Dear, You're Jealous Again


Book Description

He was the rumored incompetent young master. Not only was he ugly, his legs were also crippled. Since she wasn't favored by the Xiao family, she could only jump into this' fire pit 'in place of her little sister. However, after Xiao Xinyan fell into the pit, she suddenly realized that the one she had married was actually a 'treasure man'. After getting married, she came to understand that all the rumors outside were so freaking unbelievable .... This man that didn't seem to fight or snatch anything actually had another identity hidden within him ...




Dear Husband, I was Wrong


Book Description

It was supposed to be a happy ending to the show, but Yang Zhiqin didn't expect there would be people arguing with her over a taxi in the middle of the night. Fighting for a car with a woman?! Are you a man or not? He was indeed just a top quality man with an empty appearance! Alright, she would be wronged if she could sit together with that pair of top-grade beasts.Is there a mistake? This man was actually beautiful in front of her and in her arms. Women acting out scenes that weren't suitable for children? The world was going downhill! She was just reminding him, but he actually got molested by that charming, evil man. Not only did he take away her first kiss, he even ruthlessly insulted her!In this way, she loudly cursed him for dying in a car accident within a month! He would never be able to reincarnate!What she didn't expect was that he would ignore the fact that her stepmother would force him to marry, and instead marry that perverted man who had molested her.The most surprising thing was that the pervert on the wedding day actually accepted her curse and was on the verge of death due to the accident. Oh my god! If he had known earlier that he was such a deity, he would have cursed that he would never be able to marry his wife.Thus, she chose to escape! However, no matter how much she tried to escape, she couldn't escape from his grasp! Oh god! Who could save her?!




Transmigration: Dear Farming General


Book Description

After being reincarnated into a different world, he had thought that he would be able to reach the peak of his life. However It didn't matter if he sold spicy gluten and wrote novels. What made him completely break down was, why was he not only bisexual, but also ugly scum? Sea monster, Beastman, take-out, Phoenix Only what you can't imagine, there's nothing he can't find. You are worthy of the old days when you doubted the existence of life. Helian Po smiled. Even if my equipment is lacking and I don't have many skills, I'll still carry my mother and four younger sisters to the peak of life. A certain man:




Good Luck: Dear, Come


Book Description

Ten years ago, Lin Xiaoqing was determined to sign the divorce agreement and abandon her daughter. Even when Song Beichuan asked her to visit her daughter at least once a month, she would often leave her daughter alone. Ten years later, Song Beichuan's wife and daughter were blissful and harmonious. She was full of remorse, yet she was terminally ill ... Fate gave her a chance to reshuffle her cards. Would she be able to turn the tables on her ex-husband by relying on her culinary skills?




Dear Onyang(양장본 HardCover)


Book Description

Dear Onyang is a historical fiction based on the December 1950 evacuation of the port city of Heungnam during the Korean War. From December 15 to 24, the U.S.-led UN troops carried out an evacuation by sea for tens of thousands of North Korean refugees. These refugees traveled from the North Korean port of Heungnam to South Korea. The story follows nine year-old Myeong-ho, his pregnant mother, and younger brother Myeong-nam as they make the difficult journey from their village to the port. When Myeong-ho's family finally manages to board the last ship, the Onyang, Myeong-ho's mother gives birth to their younger sister, who they name after the ship. A poignant story of life and hope, Dear Onyang encourages readers to shine a light on the dark memories of war to brighten the future before us.More than ten years after SAMTOH published the heartfelt Korean picture book Dear Onyang is the English version translated by the granddaughter of North Korean refugees who were rescued during the Heungnam evacuation.




Transnational East Asian Studies


Book Description

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.




Disdaining The Warlords


Book Description

He was a lowly man, yet he ruled the world. He was a merciful man, but he slaughtered countless lives. He was a poor man, but because of an extraordinary experience, he allowed himself to enter a new world.After entering the Cultivation Realm, his life completely changed. Within the Cultivation Realm, he met the first female confidant in his life, Xia Qing Ling, but who would have thought that his own female confidant would actually be killed by Triple Eye Long Lang.On his way to seek revenge, he met another important girl in his life. He even had many brothers in life. On his path of revenge, he achieved the glory of his life, and embarked on a path of superiority. "




The Korean War and Postmemory Generation


Book Description

This pioneering volume navigates cultural memory of the Korean War through the lens of contemporary arts and film in South Korea for the last two decades. Cultural memory of the Korean War has been a subject of persistent controversy in the forging of South Korean postwar national and ideological identity. Applying the theoretical notion of “postmemory,” this book examines the increasingly diversified attitudes toward memories of the Korean War and Cold War from the late 1990s and onward, particularly in the demise of military dictatorships. Chapters consider efforts from younger generation artists and filmmakers to develop new ways of representing traumatic memories by refusing to confine themselves to the tragic experiences of survivors and victims. Extensively illustrated, this is one of the first volumes in English to provide an in-depth analysis of work oriented around such themes from 12 renowned and provocative South Korean artists and filmmakers. This includes documentary photographs, participatory public arts, independent women’s documentary films, and media installations. The Korean War and Postmemory Generation will appeal to students and scholars of film studies, contemporary art, and Korean history.




Beautiful Boss Falls in Love with Me


Book Description

A Vietnamese blind date group composed of a clothing designer, a contractor, an engineer, a hawker, and a Peasant Workers. As soon as they entered Viet Nam, they were immediately chased and mistakenly entered the forest by the local gangs. How could the top quality handsome Tang Zixuan be turned into an extraordinary Martial Arts Master by a refined clothing designer in a month? The petite and beautiful girlfriend whom he had loved for many years suddenly threw herself into the arms of a rich second generation; the beautiful woman, who was filled with love, was being forced into the forest of a foreign country; the beautiful woman, who was passionate and wise, was being pursued relentlessly; the beautiful woman, who was also beautiful, where was she to go? Was it a fortuitous encounter or a calamity? The plot was thrilling and confusing.




Recent Books