Agencies

Almain 2 was created when he began his copyright work in 1992 at the Korea Christian Book Service, which was established on May 1, 1991, and changed his name to KCBS Inc. in 2000 and became the new name of the company, which spun off from its parent company, KCBS, in August 2007 to become an independent company called KCBS Literature Agency. (The existing KCBS continues to be wholesale and retailing theological books.) It has been established for 27 years now in 2018, and its target countries are diversified into copyright companies from various countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Israel. It is the only copyright broker in Korea that only does Christian copyright-related works. Recently, it has been brokerage of copyright affairs, including books on various topics such as management, self-development, and children's books that explicitly or implicitly contain a Christian worldview, as well as a comprehensive range of videos, DVDs, plays, and movies.

We mediate main​ly the Korean translation rights of Book/ DVD/Audio titles between proprietors and Korean publishers for the Korean publishing market.  

Topaz Agency started in this field in 2007, and has become the leading agency with a special emphasis on Comics from the scratch. The representative, Nam-Ho KIM, had previously worked as a licensing director of the leading ‘Manhwa’ (Korean Comics) publisher named Daewon C.I. Inc. for over 14 years since 1995. KIM has licensed more than 3,500 titles (almost 7,000 volumes) to the 37 countries.   We are in the position of licensing and handling almost all of the Korean Comics and the other various literary properties because of my previous licensing backgrounds.    We use our intimate knowledge and expertise in publishing to give our clients an edge in their dealings with publishers, from the initial crafting of the proposal and manu, through the negotiation of the deal, and long into the process of editing, marketing, and publicizing the book. With our network of prominent co-agents in the foreign and markets, we are aggressive advocates for our clients' work throughout the world.    Furthermore, we has a strong relationship with any kinds of business networks in domestic and  overseas in cultural entertainment industries; animation company, game company, publishers, the character licensing companies and various agency companies, etc.    In all cases the aim is to establish a life-time's business relationship and to promote all aspects of an author's writing career, even between book contracts.    The pioneer of Korean Manhwa The using of “Manhwa” as a brand name for Korean comics has reaped great success in the overseas markets. It was Kim who has tried to make an effective effort to expand the Korean word ‘Manhwa’   against Japanese ‘Manga’ which had already been popular around the world. This was just to differentiate Korean Manhwas from Japanese Mangas as the fundamental marketing strategy and it has been proved successful in the overseas markets.   The licensed territories (37 countries) We have licensed a lot of  Manhwa to the 36 overseas countries since 1995; Japan, Taiwan, China, Hongkong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Israel, U.K, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Croatia, Russia, Finland, Bulgaria, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, The Czech Republic, Serbia, Cambodia  ​

The ChoiceMaker Korea agency is a rights agency specialized in books for toddler, children, middle grade, YA, and ELT/ESL. Although electronic media and web-platforms are becoming more and more important these days, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, we still believe that one of the best ways to introduce a new book is to show it in person. Every year, we participate in many international book fairs such as Taipei Book Fair (Taiwan), Bologna Book Fair (Italy), Beijing Book Fair (China), Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany), Guadalajara Book Fair (Mexico), etc. Further, we make a business trip to 5~6 countries annually to meet with publishers. We have gone anywhere to promote our books. As a result, we have exported Korean books to 45 countries. Standing on the accumulated experience over the past 10 years, we will keep our efforts to introduce good​

With the pride of protecting the rights of intellectual properties, we've run the business to introduce various foreign children's books to Korean publishers and outstanding domestic children's books to USA, UK, Euorpe and Asia, etc. since 2001.​

Shinwon Agency started its business in 1986. We boast a longest history as a literary agency in Korea.   We work with various partners throughout the world. Not only we have successfully made deals for more than 30,000 titles, which includes magazines, videos and audio tapes, CDs, plays, movies, and TV dramas; but also we’ve represented bestselling children’s and educational books and made record-setting deals for them.    Furthermore, we are now expanding our business areas to new platforms like web-dramas, web-comics, electronic books, and audio books​

Established in 2004, Orange Agency is a literary rights agency with the devoted staff and office based in South Korea. Its agents correspond in French, German, English and Japanese and they have been selling rights to literary properties into the Asian, US and European markets. The agency has been regarded as a stable, competent, and committed company by both of its Korean and foreign partners. Orange Agency’s early beginnings were focused on representing Korean comics (a.k.a. Manhwa,) in the international markets. The agency sold over 200 Manhwa projects into foreign languages and these accomplishments were rewarded in 2007 by winning ‘Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism Citation’ for promoting Korean literature and art abroad. Orange Agency has also become a major force in representing foreign corporate publishers as well as individual artists in the Korean market. Over 250 Korean publishers, large and small, are on its client list and in the manners of weekly newsletters and regular visits in person, the agency pitches and submits high quality foreign books, from adult fictions to children’s picture books from all over the world including US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Japan.​

Ool Literary specialises in Picture Books, Arts, and Graphic Novels. We carefully review and select the titles before introducing them to the market.  ​

MOONDO Agency was established in 2018. As much as physical distance, cultural exchange betwen Korea and Latin America has many difficulties. Therefore, prior to the establishment of the agency, a local corporation was established directly in Chile, which serves as a bridgehead in Latin America, and  devoted itself to activities for content market research in  Latin American countries. As a specialized agency that exports Korean books to Latin America, it introduces and promotes excellent books of both cultures from various angles with an emphasis on the value of excange and communication between the two cultures through book.​

MOMO AGENCY was established in Seoul in 2003, has been representing  prestigious publishing houses and agencies from  different European countries, and also presenting Korean authors to foreign publishers. ​

Milkwood was founded in 2009 with 3 literary agents covering English, German and French literary rights. ​

Linking-Asia International Co.,Ltd (連亜国际文化传播公司) was established in 2014 as one of the leading agencies in Korea. We have built up excellent and successful cooperation and communication with publishers from all over the world and especially maintains a friendly relationship with over 400 publishers in China, Taiwan and Japan. We are handling all kinds of books, such as children’s books, business, self-help, cookbooks, health & dieting, fiction, parenting, and webtoon, webnovel, audio druma, and planning calture event,​

Korea Copyright Center Inc. (KCC) is one of Korea’s most recognized and long-established literary agency. After the succession of the former DRT International (established in 1990), KCC transitioned as Korea Copyright Center Inc. in 2002. Since then, KCC has continued to successfully build and expand its reputation in the Korean literary world.    The experienced, talented and committed team of about twenty agents in KCC has strived to introduce and license a wide range of titles, ranging from business, literature, non-fiction to art and children’s books to both foreign and Korean publishers. The dedication and expertise of the KCC’s agents have contributed in maintaining KCC’s presence in the Korean publishing industry for about twenty years.   KCC’s professionalism and hands-on service has allowed it to exclusively represent some of the world’s largest and reputable publishers and literary agencies. In addition, KCC holds an exclusive partnership with Chiara Tognetti Rights Agency for its Korean list.​​

Kong & Park is the representative of Korean agencies and publishing companies and is the distributor for overseas distribution. For the transparency of distribution, we have developed a supply Chain Management System (SCM) that is optimized for overseas distribution. Through SCM, Korean publishers, distributors in various countries, sales reps, wholesalers, bookstores, and forwarders are linked closely together to carry out their business smoothly and transparently.  ​

KL Management was founded in 2011. KL Management hadnles many kind of Korean books including Korean literature.    KL Management represents a lot of great clients: Kyung-sook Shin, Ji-young Gong, Sun-mi Hwang, Un-su Kim, You-jeong Jeong, Mi-ae-Seo, Won-pyung Sohn, Yeonsu-Kim, Joongkyun Kim, Hye-young Pyun, Ae-ran Kim, Jung-myung Lee, Takhwan Kim, Kyung-ran Jo, Bee-young Kwon, Ji-min Lee, Ho-seung Jeong, Ji-ri Park and so on.​

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The Korea’s first literary agency built in 1985 has been doing variousbusiness related to copyright and intellectual property, legal advising,rights dealing & managing, and platform developing & trading, etc.​

Imprima Korea Agency was established in 1992 and has been a top agency in Korea for more than 20 years.   We exclusively work with world best agencies and publishers and represent world-famous authors like Doris Lessing, Malcolm Gladwell, Murakami Haruki, Mo Yan and etc. In Korea.   We also proudly represent Korean Authors and introduce them to foreign publishing markets. Our authors, including Kyung-Sook Shin, Young Ha Kim, Han Kang, have attracted worldwide attention and their books have been published in USA, UK, France, Germany, and many others.​

Established in 2006, we have introduced foreign titles for adults and children to our Korean publishers and have arranged more than 1,000 translation deals. Also, we represent the brilliant Korean sci-fi/speculative writers worldwide including Kim Bo Young.  

Eric Yang Agency intermediates intellectual property and cultural contents between countries since 1995. For over 26 years, Eric Yang Agency has been working with more than 5,000 publishers of 90 countries in the world and importing the foreign titles average of 3,000 titles annually to Korea. Eric Yang Agency exports about 350 Korean titles to overseas every year.