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After Corona, the demand for video content such as dramas, movies, and YouTube has increased significantly. Meanwhile, sales of paper books have also increased steadily.
Reporter Lee Joo-sang reports.
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A large reading table with a total length of 23m, this wooden table installed at the Kyobo Bookstore in Gwanghwamun, Seoul was a symbol of the publishing and bookstore world.
However, after Corona, the bookstore stopped visiting, and this table was turned into a book display stand.
It seemed that a cold wave was coming to the bookstore, but the reading population did not decrease.
[Ahn Tae-joon / Seo-gu, Incheon: I just watch mobile phones and TVs naturally, but I decided to 'see' books a little bit, so I think it's about 6 to 4, reading a book is about 4.]
[Kim Yeon-joo / Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul: video or I'm reading little by little because it's a slow way to capture what the media can't.]
In fact, according to Kyobo Books, the sales of books have steadily increased by around 7% every year for the past three years.
[Jinyoung Gyun/Kyobo Bookstore Brand Communication Team: As people are semi-compulsively at home for a longer period of time, it seems that they have chosen reading as one of the activities that they can do in a variety of ways.] The
genre was not biased toward a specific field either.
[Jinyoung Gyun/Kyobo Bookstore Brand Communication Team: It can be said that all of economics, business, humanities, science books, novels, children's books, and youth books sold well.]
As the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was recently announced, each bookstore immediately sells a separate ticket. installed.
In the case of this year's winner Ani Erno, he is a well-known writer who has translated 17 books in Korea, so it is expected that he will lead the reading fever in the fall.
(Video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)