In The Korea Herald Ahn Sung-mi reports on Voicing diversity through books, noting that while the state of bookselling in South Korea seems to be worrisome, independent publishing is flourishing.
Amazingly:
Amazingly:
The number of registered publishers has grown to 42,000 from 16,000 in 2000, while the bookstores suffered a sharp decline -- in 1994, there were 5,683 bookshops in the country, but only 1,625 remain.