- Overview
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This book is about the experience of the author who explored the world's bookstores and awakens us to the nobility of books and the capability of bookstores.
- Book Intro
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Kim Eunho, a publisher who has been publishing books for about 40 years, traveled abroad eight times in 2015 to write A Tour of the World's Bookstores. He visited the bookstores with individual and independent styles in Europe, China, America, Japan and Korea and met the owners of bookstores. In this book, the author discusses the spirit of books and the philosophy of bookstores. He talks about the way that bookstores run and the spirit of publication in this era of digital civilization.
A Tour of the World's Bookstores is not an ordinary travel guide. The author investigated the philosophy of the owners of bookstores and how the individual styles used to operate their stores. The book also tells us about the intellect and culture of the country and society where the bookstore is located and introduces a variety of programs planned by the bookstores.
The publisher Kim Eunho explains his philosophy about books through A Tour of World's Bookstores, which also reflects his dedication to books. The book contains the publisher's worldview of books that are capable of beautifully transforming humans and the world. It summarizes his philosophy about books, which has grown with the publishing of 3,000 books since the establishment of Hangilsa in 1976.
- About the Author
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Kim Eunho
Kim Eunho established Hangilsa in 1976 after he was forced out of Dong-a Ilbo because of his fights for freedom of the press. Hangilsa has published about 3000 different books in the humanities, sociology, and science during these 40 plus years. The company has been planning and publishing modern Korean history classics including New Ideologies of Today and The Perception before and after the Independence based on its philosophy as follows: "A book is a beautiful bowl which contains the whole time period and social ideologies". Kim Eunho led the establishment of the Korea Publishers Society and the Paju Publishing City and the construction of Heyri Art Village.