ASIA Publishers was started in 2006, by publisher Kim Jae-Boom, publishing its first collection/magazine
ASIA (Now titled
Storytelling ASIA), which is a quarterly magazine of Asian literature. The magazine collects and publishes short stories, poetry, recent issues in Asia, essays, and book reviews. In 2012 ASIA Publishers began publishing series of Korean fiction in both English and Korea in a 5 collection (intended) to be 7 collections eventually series intended to cover all of "early modern" (up until about the year 2000) Korean fiction. These volumes, titled the “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” were sub-grouped by theme, with collection #1, for instance, focusing on Partition and Division, Industrialization, and Women in Korean Society. The authors were a broad range and generally well known (some in translation) including,
Kyoung-sook Shin (
Please Look After Mom),
Park Wan-so (Who Ate up all the Shinga),
Kim Won-il, (Soul of Darkness), and Hwang Sok-yong (The Road to Sampo). In fact, the publication of these works was considered significant enough to be noted on the Cheong Wa-Dae (청와대, the Korean equivalent of the White House in the United States.) website. Currently, ASIA Publishers is printing a "K-Fiction Series", which is intended to appeal to a younger audience. This series includes authors Park Min-gyu and Son Bo-mi, who represent the cutting edge of contemporary Korean fiction. The current book titles include: Dinner with Buffet (Park Min-gyu); Arpan (
Park hyoung su); My Clint Eastwood (Oh Han-ki); Dishonored (Choi Min-Woo); and, Hot Air Balloon (
Son Bo-mi), with more to follow. ==Publications==