Description
North Korea is the only place in the twenty-first century where there is no freedom of movement. However, there are people who have crossed the border into the South, as in this book in which North Korean defectors serve as the subject. The protagonist, Ju-yeong, goes for a job interview at a publishing company with nothing posted on the walls. There she meets National Intelligence Agent Ko, who instructs Ju-yeong to monitor comments on the internet. After the presidential election, Ko offers Ju-yeong contract work at UNIWON, a resettlement education organization that helps North Korean defectors. There, Ju-yeong meets North Korean children who have defected to the South for various reasons.
Company Information
Established in 2005, Sanzini is a publisher committed to cultural democracy and the localization of culture. Based in Busan, Korea, we are one of very few Korean publishers based outside of Seoul. Our location provides us a level of independence that fosters intellectual innovation; with an emphasis on locality, we strive find elements of the universal from the particular. Sanzini publishes a wide variety of works from literature to politics, criticism to language studies.
Category & Business Type
Other
서적출판
Main Business
In Korean, sanzini refers to an aged native Korean hawk that is known to fly the highest and endure the greatest of all birds. The publishing company Sanzini is founded upon the vision of sustaining and thriving in the poor publishing environment of Korea, like a sanzini. Since its founding in 2005, Sanzini has published over 550 covers on diverse areas including humanities, social studies, political subjects, and literature. In 2009, the company expanded under the new name of Sanzini Publishing Group, and launched an imprint, ‘Happy Book Media’, which has been publishing books on regions, arts, and culture, with a main focus on the arts and culture series.
In 2015, the company received the Grand Prize in the business management and sales category at the Korean Publishing Science Society Awards. You can be rest assured that Sanzini will continue to provide our readers with publishing contents that distinguish themselves with the environment, history, and culture of Busan.