Ridibooks, which claims to be South Korea’s largest e-book vendor, announced that it has raised a $8 million Series B to improve its user experience and reach new customers. Investors include NeoPlux, ...

More than a thousand ancient Korean books of academic value in a U.S. university and a Japanese library are now available on the Internet as a South Korean university has recently begun an online ...

For many Korean children, the careful rolling of "gimbap" (seaweed rice roll) or the aroma of sizzling kimchi pancakes isn’t just about food — it is a love language passed down through generations.

In honor of the Winter Olympics taking place now in Pyeongchang, I visited Koreatown’s bookstores. (Don’t miss our Koreatown guide). With new, used and specialty shops stocking comic books and manga, ...

On a quiet street in Tokyo's Jimbocho district, known for its secondhand bookstores and publishing houses, one shop stands ...

In the early 1200s, a Mongolian envoy dispatched to Gaegyeong, the capital of Goryeo, returned with 100,000 sheets of paper, ...

K-dramas to K-pop have placed South Korea at the center of the media universe. Are K-books about to join them? Most prominently, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man Booker International ...

A visit to the Gwanghwamun branch of Kyobo, Korea’s largest bookstore chain, provides many clues to the country’s present book market. Tables of test preparation books and shelves of English-language ...

Two months ago, when the Nobel Committee chose South Korean writer Han Kang as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate, bookstores across India were flooded with requests for her books. Bahrisons, a ...

Korean literature began as little seeds blown by the wind and carried across the world by devoted literary agents, talented translators, editors and publishers, none of whom were familiar with Korean ...