First time in 70 years! Seoul International Book Fair announces next year’s theme country “Taiwan”

First time in 70 years! Seoul International Book Fair announces next year’s theme country “Taiwan”

The Korea Publishing Association announced today at the opening ceremony of the Seoul International Book Fair that the theme country of the 2025 Seoul Book Fair will be “Taiwan.” (Provided by Taipei Book Fair Foundation)

[Reporter Dong Baiting/Reporting from Taipei]The 2024 Seoul International Book Fair hosted by the Korea Publishing Association opened today (26). The organizer announced that the theme country of the 2025 Seoul Book Fair will be “Taiwan”. This is the first time in the 70 years since its establishment that the Seoul Book Fair has been invited to become a book fair. Theme country. For Taiwan, it will be the theme country of the Seoul International Book Fair for the first time next year. It will be the fourth time it has been the theme country of an overseas book fair after the 2007 Bangkok International Book Fair, the 2012 Angouleme International Comics Festival in France, and the 2018 Bangkok International Book Fair. Glory, this will also become an important starting point for the “Friendly Korea” trend between Taiwan and South Korea.

The 2024 Seoul International Book Fair announced at the opening of the conference that the theme country of the 2025 Book Fair is “Taiwan”. (Provided by the Institute of Cultural Studies)

The Taipei Book Fair Foundation stated that the Taipei Book Fair Foundation has participated in the exhibition in 2008 and has interacted with the Korean publishing industry in the form of a “Taiwan Pavilion” for 18 years. It has strengthened two-way copyright transactions between Taiwan and South Korea year by year. In 2023, the number of Taiwanese publishers visiting the Seoul Book Fair reached a peak. In addition to the film and television benefits of the works of Nine Knives and the Heo Guanghan phenomenon, the Xu Zongmao Gallery, which is famous for its rich collection of graphic and historical materials, last year exhibited the Korean historical album “Japanese Imperial Korea, 1910-1945”, which attracted a large number of people every day. Korean readers stopped by, and the limited edition of 50 hardcover copies was sold out during the exhibition, and the Korean general agent rights were negotiated during the exhibition. In 2024, the Xu Zongmao Library launched a series of three Korean historical atlases, which were grandly released in Seoul before the exhibition and were widely reported by major media in South Korea. They will continue to be a highlight during this year’s Seoul Book Fair, showcasing the editing of historical materials, as well as Taiwan’s printing and binding. .

The “Taiwan Pavilion” on the first day of the 2024 Seoul Book Fair attracted many readers. (Provided by Taipei Book Fair Foundation)

Comma Creative Editor-in-Chief Chen Xiamin claims to have become a fan at the Seoul Book Fair. During last year’s book fair, he formed an interview group with Korean teacher and translator Chen Yuru and photographer Liao Jianhua to visit Korean independent publishing houses. This year, he launched “Doing” Book People: A Visit to Ten Korean Independent Publishing Houses on How to Survive Happily.”

The Taiwan Pavilion’s diverse publication promotion activities also allow more people from around the world to get to know Taiwan’s original and excellent works. In 2023, the Cultural Content Policy Institute plans an IP translation promotion event, inviting Korean industries to participate, and strongly promotes Taiwan’s digital and paper publishing image works. , allowing LINE Webtoon, which operates Taiwan’s original digital webcomics, to have its works favored by Japanese and Korean publishers. Since 2023, the demand for Korean cultural and creative industry operators to visit the Taiwan Pavilion to inquire about works suitable for adaptation into web comics, films and TV shows has increased significantly, and it is expected that inquiries will be equally enthusiastic this year.

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Source: China