ASIA Publishers


ASIA Publishers is a Seoul-based book publisher best known for producing multi-volume series of translated Korean literature in bilingual format, generally at novella length and usually featuring a short biography of the author, a background of the social and historical setting of the work, and a brief collection of Korean critical response to the works.

History

ASIA Publishers was started in 2006, by publisher Kim Jae-Boom, publishing its first collection/magazine ASIA,which is a quarterly magazine of Asian literature. The magazine collects and publishes short stories, poetry, recent issues in Asia, essays, and book reviews. In 2012 ASIA Publishers began publishing series of Korean fiction in both English and Korea in a 5 collection to be 7 collections eventually series intended to cover all of "early modern" Korean fiction. These volumes, titled the “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” were sub-grouped by theme, with collection #1, for instance, focusing on Partition and Division, Industrialization, and Women in Korean Society. The authors were a broad range and generally well known including, Kyoung-sook Shin, Park Wan-so, Kim Won-il,, and Hwang Sok-yong.
In fact, the publication of these works was considered significant enough to be noted on the Cheong Wa-Dae website.
Currently, ASIA Publishers is printing a "K-Fiction Series", which is intended to appeal to a younger audience. This series includes authors Park Min-gyu and Son Bo-mi, who represent the cutting edge of contemporary Korean fiction. The current book titles include: Dinner with Buffet ; Arpan ; My Clint Eastwood ; Dishonored ; and, Hot Air Balloon, with more to follow.

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