ANN/THE KOREA HERALD – Despite a consistent decline in reader engagement, independent bookstores in South Korea are not only surviving but thriving. “Over the last decade, we’ve witnessed a significant drop in the percentage of people picking up a book each year, plummeting from 72.2 per cent in 2013 to just 46.9 per cent in […]
Despite consistently falling reader engagement, independent bookstores are surviving and even thriving in South Korea. "In the past decade, the percentage of people reading at least one book a year plummeted from 72.2 percent in 2013 to 46.9 percent in 2021. Yet, with today's diverse avenues for accessing information, the decline of traditional book reading might not be as significant as we think,&quo.