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become prosperous in that most
literary market,” said Gang Kyung-seok, a
of the best sellers grabbing
critic.Thedebutsystemproducesnewcritics
attention by critics were prize-
but it can’t be their full time profession. A
winning works. For instance,
considerablenumberofcriticshaveotherjobs
“TheLastFanClubofSammi
suchasteachingatauniversity.
Superstars” written by Park
On the other hand, authors themselves
Min-gyu who won Hankyoreh
are also one of the causes for polarization
Literary Award sold about 100,000 copies.
because, as some people say, low-quality
Thebook“Style”written
byBaekYoung-ok
“Misil” written by Kim Byeol-a and “My
works affect the status of literary contests.
Wife Got Married by Park Hyeon-wuk”,
As a matter of fact, Munsa Novel Award
both of which received Segye Literary
did not select any winner. Literature of
Award in 2005 and 2006 respectively, sold
Literature Award picked a winner in only
about 250,000 copies each. However, since
the first contest in 2007 and then folded up
2007, no works of the prize winners were
withoutdecidingwhattypeofworkwouldbe
among the 10 best sellers, except for “Style”
the object of its prize. A judge for a contest
written by Beak young-ok, who received
offering 100 million won to a winner said,
Segye Literary Award. What is the problem
“It is not easy to choose a work befitting a
behind this phenomenon? The first problem
bigprize.Absentahighqualitywork,public
is that there are many literary awards being
interest and faith in literary contests will
so similar that readers become insensitive
fade.”
awards.Mostawardsthatpoppeduprecently
The last factor has to do with readers. The
were full-length novels, now looking for
Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism
‘sources’ leading to a drama or movie
found that 3 out of 10 Korean adults did not
version. The awards thus lose their influence
readevenasinglebooklastyear.Italsofound
and become unable to buy support neither
that adults read an average of 10.9 books a
for prize winning writers nor for the critics.
year,whichwasanotchlowerthanthe2008
“The critics are in charge of the ‘bridge’ to
percentage of 11.9. Furthermore, the survey
connect writers and readers, finding valuable
alsoindicatesthat,onamonthlybasis,ahalf
t h i ngs
in new works, so they are
ofKoreanadultsdon’treadanybooks.Those
an important key to
who do read last year represented 71.7%,
vitalizing Korea’s
whichwaslowerthantheydidin2008.This
figureisalsothelowestsince1994whenthe
survey was started. Said Han Gi-ho,
head of the Korean
Publishers
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