Korean waves in Indonesian publishing
It is very interesting to observe how Korean waves wash the shore of Indonesian publishing. This year more and more publishers are turning their attention to the country of Gangnam style to find titles to publish. Recent surge of publication includes So I Married an Anti-Fan by Kim Eun Jeon, Guiyeoni's Romance of Their Own, a chick-lit best-selling titled Style by Baek Young-Ok, and Wonderful Radio by Lee Jae Ik. Among the first original Korean novels published in Indonesia are Please Look After Mom (Shin Kyung-sook), and Hyun Kyung Sohn's My Princess, both were released in early 2011. That was the beginning of K-pop influence to be seen in book publishing in Indonesia, following the fever of Korean television drama that has come earlier. Before this literary surge, Korean book translation are primarily educational comic like the wildly popular "Why?" series and other similar type of comics favorited by students. After this first batch, there was a wave of non-or