200 South Korean professors to be indicted for plagiarism
It’s been a busy few months for South Korea’s Uijeongbu District Prosecutors’ Office. Since September of this year, in the process of investigating the country’s rampant problem with textbook plagiarism, the office has called… Read more »
A lot of Japanese literature gets translated, but not into English
A good book can overcome many barriers in its quest to find an audience, but the Pacific Ocean apparently isn’t one of them. This is the case for Japanese literature,… Read more »
Can digital devices be blamed for a decline in reading?
The international market for Korean literature is growing, writes Roger Tagholm in Publishing Perspectives, but surprisingly for a country as technologically advanced as South Korea, he says there hasn’t been… Read more »
South Korean bookseller sets new standard for rock-bottom ebook prices
The U.S. isn’t the only place where corporations are dropping ebook prices below levels the industry can support. South Korea’s largest bookstore, Kyobo (not to be confused with Canada’s lovely Kobo),… Read more »