Chinese section at Kyobo Books

There are many aspects of Kyobo Bookstore in Gwanghwamun that bother me. First and foremost is the decision to stop being a book store and turn into a department store that sells speakers, socks, candles, stationary supplies, bags and snacks. In addition the number of books lying on their sides (as opposed to on shelves) has increased, but the total number of books, and variety of books, has declined precipitously over the last eight years I have been coming here.

But by far the saddest part of the Kyobo Bookstore is the Chinese book section. As opposed to the English language section which includes a good stock, and a few worth reading, or the Japanese section, which is more limited, but still sufficient, the Chinese section is just four shelves in an extremely obscure corner. You would never find it if you did not ask.

The books are translations of Western (and some Japanese) mainstream works. Not a single book by a significant book by a Chinese writer is to be found.

Not sure I know why Kyobo has invested so little in the Chinese section, but it looks like a mistake granted just how important to Korea China has become.

The Chinese book section at Kyobo Books is only about four shelves and contains not a single significant Chinese book.

The Chinese book section at Kyobo Books is only about four shelves and contains not a single significant Chinese book.

The Chinese books are translations of Western and Japanese books or bland how-to books by unknown authors.

The Chinese books are translations of Western and Japanese books or bland how-to books by unknown authors.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this:
https://circlesandsquares.asia/2016/01/17/chinese-section-at-kyobo-books/
circlesandsquares.asia
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-09
61305
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:NBHTCGMU5V4E3D6YUBC45XKOGKPXBA6X
<urn:uuid:56d092b9-cb1f-4ed4-a4a7-66fa591cda1f>
2019-02-21T04:11:11Z
192.0.78.25
text/html
sha1:YORDIOQ3VEMWXFPV5U7ULYB6KJ22KLQQ
<urn:uuid:f44ff365-32a9-46c6-a4c8-9ed91c7ec07b>
https://circlesandsquares.asia/2016/01/17/chinese-section-at-kyobo-books/
response
<urn:uuid:0501373f-6b5d-4215-9be9-f2f5710a2d3c>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-171-229-147.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/