When the Machine Reads Your Book 2026.08.16 Insight AI, COPYRIGHT & NEW TECH /news/when-the-machine-reads-your-book Global 6 MIN CO.MINT Editorial AI has become a new party at every rights table. Here is what the courts have settled, what they haven't, and — from Naver Webtoon's studios to the EU's disclosure rules — what it means for the people whose stories are being learned from. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/ publications/ce8eaa5f/ai-in-litigation-series-an-update- on-ai-copyright-cases-in-2026 https://www.stlpr.org/npr/2026-07-27/authors-have-mixed -feelings-about-the-1-5b-anthropic-copyright-infringement-ruling https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/22/1114874/ generative-ai-south-korea-webcomics/ https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture /2023/12/135_362478.html https://thenewpublishingstandard.com /2026/01/28/korea-ai-act-webtoon-creators/ https://manuscriptreport.com/data/ai-copyright-lawsuits AI & Copyright Every rights conversation now has a new party at the table. It does not sign contracts or attend book fairs, but it has read — or wants to read — almost everything. The large language models behind today's AI were trained on vast bodies of text and image, and a great deal of that material was made by the authors and artists that agencies like ours represent. What that means for copyright is still being worked out, in courtrooms and negotiating rooms at the same time. It is worth setting out plainly where things stand. Start with the question that dominated the headlines: is it lawful to train an AI on copyrighted work? Across 2025 and into 2026, courts in the United States began to draw a line — but not the one either side expected. In the most closely watched book case, a group of authors sued Anthropic; the court found that training a model on works the company had lawfully acquired could be a transformative, fair use, but that downloading and storing pirated copies to do it was not. The case then settled for roughly 1.5 billion dollars — an amount tied directly to the pirated sourcing, with reported payouts of around 3,000 dollars per work. A parallel suit against Meta reasoned similarly: training on the books could be defended as fair use, while claims tied to how the files were obtained were allowed to proceed. Around these sit a whole field of disputes — from the authors' class actions naming writers such as Sarah Silverman, to Getty Images against Stability AI over image training, to The New York Times against OpenAI. These rulings are narrow, several are under appeal, and courts elsewhere may reason differently. But the signal is clear: the decisive question turned out to be not whether a machine may learn from a work, but how that work was obtained. Provenance is now the threshold that matters. That threshold does not sit at the same height everywhere — and nowhere is the contrast sharper than within Asia. Japan's copyright law contains a broad exception permitting works to be used for information analysis, which extends to much AI training and has made the country notably permissive. Korea has moved the other way. After a wave of creator protest, the Korea Copyright Commission issued guidance in late 2023 urging AI developers to seek permission from rights holders before using their works for training, to state the purpose, scope, and duration of that use, and to pay fair compensation. Two neighbours, two philosophies — which is precisely why a rights position has to be read market by market rather than assumed from a single headline. A second question runs the other way. If a machine generates a story or an image on its own, can anyone own it? Here the answer has been consistent: copyright requires a human author, and courts have repeatedly declined to recognise an AI system as one — a position the top of the US judiciary let stand in 2026. The most instructive case for our field involved a comic. When an artist sought to register a graphic novel whose images were produced with an AI image generator, the US Copyright Office split the work in two: the human-written text and the human selection and arrangement of the panels were protected, but the individual AI-generated images were not. Purely machine-made output, with no meaningful human hand, tends to fall outside copyright altogether. The human contribution has not become less important in the age of AI. If anything, it has become the thing the law is looking for. None of this is abstract for the creators we represent, because in Asia the tension arrived first not in court but on the page — in front of readers. In May 2023, readers of the Naver Webtoon series The Knight King Returns with the Gods flooded it with one-star ratings after spotting that portions of the art had been refined with AI; the same series drew accusations that AI had been used to trace another studio's designs. The studio eventually pledged to stop, and re-drew episodes. The following month, webtoon artists mounted an online protest against a platform contract clause that required them to consent to their uploaded work being used as AI training data — an "AI-training right" quietly folded into the terms of publishing. This is exactly the kind of clause a rights agency exists to catch. It shows how a new use can hide inside old paperwork, and how covert use, once discovered, damages a title's standing with the very readers it depends on. Regulation, meanwhile, has moved faster than the courts — and it has moved toward disclosure. Under the European Union's AI rules taking full effect in August 2026, providers of general-purpose AI models must publish summaries of the data they trained on and set out how they comply with copyright: the first binding attempt to give rights holders real visibility into what a model has read, reaching any catalogue whose rights touch the European market. Korea, for its part, has passed an AI framework law requiring AI-generated content to be labelled, with machine-readable watermarks permitted for visual formats such as webtoons, after a grace period. The commercial logic is already visible: with a large share of Korean webtoons' overseas revenue coming from English-language readers, studios have found that "100% hand-drawn" can become a selling point, and that hiding AI use costs more trust than disclosing it ever would. While the courts sort out principle and regulators sort out disclosure, the market has been busy finding a price. The clear trend of the past two years is a shift from litigation toward licensing: rather than keep defending the claim that scraping was always fair, several AI companies have begun paying publishers for the right to use their text. The deals are uneven, still concentrated among large rights holders with well-cleared, long backlists, and by no means universal — much of the industry remains in court, and music-rights bodies such as Korea's KOMCA have stood up their own AI task forces. But a market for "training rights" is visibly forming, and that changes the calculation for everyone who owns a catalogue. So where does a rights agency stand? Four principles hold regardless of how the cases finally land. First, sourcing matters: any right we grant should never become a route to launder unlicensed or pirated use. Second, a new use needs its own named permission — an AI-training or AI-adaptation right is a distinct slice of the bundle, not something that rides silently inside a translation licence or a platform's standard terms. Third, disclosure is now part of the deal: where a work was made with AI assistance, saying so is becoming both a legal duty and a matter of reader trust. Fourth, the author's moral rights — attribution and the integrity of the work — do not dissolve because a machine is involved. A well-drafted contract already anticipates the machine at the table. The law will keep moving. Trials are on the calendar into next year, including what is reported to be the first jury trial in an AI-copyright case, and the picture will look different again by the time they conclude. What will not change is that someone has to read the rights carefully on the author's behalf, use by use, market by market. That is our work — machine or no machine. Copyright & Technology offers general information about publishing rights and copyright and is not legal advice. The legal position described here is evolving and varies by jurisdiction. For decisions about a specific work or contract, consult qualified counsel in the relevant market.

RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE A carefree summer at a country stream becomes a treasury of friendship, nature, play, and memories that continue glowing long after childhood ends. SYNOPSIS On a blazing summer morning, children gather at a country stream with large rubber tubs and no particular plan beyond escaping the heat. They search for four-leaf clovers, race across the water, chase a drifting shoe, catch snails, nap on warm sand, and eat wild raspberries before walking home beneath the evening sky. Told with gentle nostalgia and vivid sensory detail, the picture book celebrates outdoor play, friendship, community, nature, and the simple childhood experiences that quietly become lifelong memories. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Park Sung-eun is a Korean picture-book author and illustrator who hopes to transform ordinary moments into stories that offer readers quiet comfort. She received an Excellence Award at the 6th Woongjin Junior Picture Book Awards and was selected as a shortlisted illustrator at the 2023 NAMI CONCOURS. She wrote and illustrated My Summer Days and has illustrated books including Grandmother’s House, Grandmother’s Knees, and The Last Train to Silla. Her work is distinguished by an affectionate gaze toward childhood, family, landscape, and memory, often finding emotional richness in experiences that appear simple at first glance. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2018-08-03 ISBN 9791187439707 FORMAT Korean: Hardcover PAGES Korean: 40p DIMENSIONS Korean: 280 × 260 × 20 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 나의 여름날 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2018 GENRE Picture Book (Childhood Memories / Nature Play / Summer & Friendship) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS All Rights Available VIDEO RESOURCE 3D Immersive Video BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/63019574 OTHER BOOKS BY

RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE A crooked-toothed boy and perfect-toothed monster cross worlds together, discovering courage, friendship, and self-acceptance can restore wishes and protect what makes them different. SYNOPSIS Every night, tooth fairies follow the light of children's wishes to collect old teeth and help new ones grow. But fewer children believe in them, their wish-powered world is fading, and tooth monsters are waiting in the darkness. Ganghan, a boy mocked at school for his crooked teeth, meets Byeolnan, a tooth monster ashamed of having perfectly straight teeth. Each envies exactly what the other dislikes about himself. When the fairy world falls into danger, the unlikely pair must cross worlds together and find the courage to restore the lost wishes. A playful fantasy about difference, dental anxiety, friendship, bullying, and learning to value what makes you unique. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Kim Kyung-sook is a Korean children’s writer known for inventive, humorous stories that invite young readers into unusual fantasy worlds. Her books include The Great Rabbit and other imaginative works for children, and her storytelling is distinguished by playful dialogue and surprising premises. Han Dam-hee is a Korean illustrator and picture-book creator whose warm, distinctive images have appeared in The Gorilla Hair Salon, An Elephant Got Stuck, The Star Papa, and many other children’s books. In Tooth Monster, Kim’s comic reinterpretation of tooth-fairy folklore and Han’s richly imagined supernatural world combine to explore dental anxiety, bullying, difference, friendship, and the courage to accept traits that once caused embarrassment. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2025-05-15 ISBN 9791165022143 FORMAT Korean: Paperback PAGES Korean: 112p DIMENSIONS Korean: 152 × 225 × 6 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 이빨괴물 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2025 GENRE Children’s Fantasy (Self-Acceptance / Anti-Bullying / Tooth-Fairy Adventure) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS All Rights Available VIDEO RESOURCE BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/146288064 OTHER BOOKS BY

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RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE Suji secretly brings her beloved elephant to school, where classmates turn a doorway disaster into a joyful lesson about friendship, teamwork, and belonging. SYNOPSIS Suji and her enormous best friend Elephant have never been apart. On her first day of school, her mother worries that the other children will tease her if she brings Elephant along, but Suji secretly takes him anyway. When Elephant becomes firmly stuck in the classroom doorway, Suji bursts into tears. Instead of laughing, her new classmates rush to help, pulling and pushing together until he is free. They even rearrange the classroom so everyone can sit together, turning Suji’s greatest fear into a warm experience of friendship, acceptance, and belonging. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Park Jun-hee is a Korean children’s author whose books include The Gorilla Hair Salon, Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep, and An Elephant Got Stuck. Her stories often begin with recognizable childhood emotions and everyday situations, then open into warm explorations of friendship and belonging. Han Dam-hee is a Korean illustrator and picture-book artist whose lively, expressive images bring humor and emotional sensitivity to stories for young readers. Her illustrated works include The Gorilla Hair Salon, Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep, and The Rules of the Game. Together, Park’s child-centered storytelling and Han’s imaginative visual language make An Elephant Got Stuck an inviting story about acceptance, cooperation, and a child’s first steps into a new community. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2018-03-09 ISBN 9788925579085 FORMAT Korean: Hardcover PAGES Korean: 92p DIMENSIONS Korean: 253 × 248 × 15 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 코끼리가 꼈어요 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2018 GENRE Picture Book (Elementary Textbook / Sejong Book Selection) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS Rights Sold: Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Turkish, Italian, Chinese Traditional VIDEO RESOURCE 2D Animation BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/59192229 OTHER BOOKS BY The Gorilla Hair Salon Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep

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RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE Korean house ghosts confront foreign monsters seeking supremacy, but rivalry becomes courage when they uncover cruelty, free stolen souls, and choose coexistence together. SYNOPSIS The old Korean house ghosts have barely regained their pride when strange monsters from overseas arrive, including Manti, Pumpkin, and Hong Kong Halmae. At first, the encounter becomes a comic rivalry over who is truly the most frightening. But Manti’s ambition soon reveals a darker purpose: stealing human souls and consuming other monsters to increase his power. The boastful house ghost must finally discover real courage, cross the sea with his unlikely companions, enter Manti’s castle, and free the imprisoned souls. Blending Korean ghost folklore with international monster traditions, the sequel explores pride, identity, cruelty, empathy, courage, and coexistence. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jeong Seol-a is a Korean children’s author known for imaginative stories that mix folklore, fantasy, history, adventure, and contemporary concerns. Her books include Donghae, The Rules of the Game, The Bad Guys, The World of Iru, and the A Ghost Lives in My House series. She is especially interested in transforming familiar Korean cultural elements into fast-moving narratives for younger readers. Han Sang-hee illustrates the series with a lively visual style that gives each ghost and monster a distinctive comic personality. In the second volume, their collaboration expands the supernatural world beyond Korea, bringing local ghosts into contact with international monster traditions while retaining the series’ humor and warmth. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2023-08-10 ISBN 9791165021481 FORMAT Korean: Paperback PAGES Korean: 216p DIMENSIONS Korean: 152 × 223 × 20 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 우리 집에 귀신이 산다 2 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2023 GENRE Middle-Grade Fantasy Adventure (Korean Folklore / Global Monster Myths / Courage & Coexistence) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS All Rights Available VIDEO RESOURCE BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/121561384 OTHER BOOKS BY A Ghost Lives in My House 1

RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE José Mujica rises from hardship and imprisonment to lead Uruguay with humility, proving that justice, simplicity, and compassion can define true political power. SYNOPSIS This picture-book biography introduces young readers to José Mujica, the former president of Uruguay whose life was shaped by hardship, political struggle, imprisonment, and an enduring belief in justice. Even after becoming president, Mujica continued living simply, farming flowers, driving an old car, remaining close to ordinary people, and donating most of his salary. Rather than measuring progress through wealth or possessions, he argued for happiness, fairness, opportunity, and shared responsibility. Told with warmth, the book presents leadership as an act of humility and compassion, inviting children to consider what power is truly for. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Woo Hyun-ok is a Korean children’s author who completed doctoral coursework in children’s literature at Chung-Ang University and began receiving recognition after her story A Bicycle That Went to the Sea was selected by Munhwa Ilbo in 2007. She has also taught picture-book writing at universities and written numerous books for young readers. Kang Hye-young studied sculpture and approaches illustration as a way of placing the artist’s emotions onto paper. Her illustrated works include The Little Prince, The Happy President, José Mujica, and As a Swan. Together, their work presents Mujica’s political life through accessible storytelling and warm visual sensitivity. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2015-09-10 ISBN 9791165021030 FORMAT Korean: Hardcover PAGES Korean: 40p DIMENSIONS Korean: 230 × 210 × 15 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 행복한 대통령 호세 무히카 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2015 GENRE Picture Book Biography (Sejong Book Selection / Humble Leadership / Social Justice) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS Rights Sold: Italian VIDEO RESOURCE BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/20243766 OTHER BOOKS BY

RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE When police fail to stop a predator stalking their apartment complex, four overlooked housewives become detectives—and discover that reclaiming their identities may be as dangerous as catching a killer. SYNOPSIS Four women in a run-down Korean housing complex have spent years being seen primarily as wives and mothers. When a serial sexual predator begins terrorizing their neighborhood and the police fail to stop him, Miri, Ji-hyeon, Kyeong-ja, and So-hee form an amateur detective team of their own. What begins with tracking a flasher escalates into something far darker when violence intensifies, a severed hand is discovered, and one of the women disappears. Mixing serial-killer suspense with sharp humor, friendship, and social commentary, Salon de Holmes turns overlooked homemakers into formidable investigators determined to expose the monster hiding behind ordinary appearances. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Jeon Gunwoo is one of Korea’s leading writers of mystery, thriller, and horror fiction. Since his debut in 2008, he has built a reputation for fast-moving suspense, memorable genre premises, and stories that combine fear with sharply observed human behavior. His works include Night Storytellers, The Children’s Whirlpool, and The Twisted House, which was adapted into a feature film. Salon de Holmes further demonstrated the screen potential of his fiction when it was adapted into a 2025 television series. Jeon is widely recognized for bringing cinematic energy and popular accessibility to contemporary Korean genre writing. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: Mongsil Books PUBLICATION DATE 2020-07-01 ISBN 9791189178192 FORMAT Korean: Paperback PAGES Korean: 340p DIMENSIONS Korean: 140 × 195 × 20 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 살롱 드 홈즈 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2019 GENRE Crime Mystery / Thriller / Comic Ensemble Mystery RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS Thai Publishing; Korean Drama (ENA / Coupang Play, 2025); Korean Audiobook (Storytel, 2022) VIDEO RESOURCE BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/Product/Goods/84774601 OTHER BOOKS BY

RIGHTS INQUIRY REQUEST MATERIALS ADD TO FAVORITES MESSAGE CO.MINT LOGLINE Always overlooked as the hundredth sheep, Doo-Doo invents a new bedtime role, discovering her purpose by helping an exhausted world finally rest peacefully. SYNOPSIS Every night, baker Mr. Gong counts sheep to help himself fall asleep. Unfortunately, Doo-Doo is sheep number one hundred, and he always falls asleep before reaching her. Tired of being overlooked, she works hard to move to the front of the line, only to discover that the baker is too busy to sleep that night. Then Doo-Doo has a better idea: instead of waiting to be counted, she begins counting tired people and objects to sleep herself. A gentle, imaginative bedtime story about perseverance, creativity, helping others, and discovering a purpose uniquely your own. RIGHTS ENQUIRY Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% SEARCH FOR A TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHER, ISBN Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers Sets New Best sellers Curated sets Change the text to include your own content. Adjust the font, size or scale to customize the style. Shop Sets One of a kind designs Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Each tab can have a different height and look. Shop New Top-rated dinnerware Change the text to include your own content. Include as much or as little text as you want. Tabs grow and shrink vertically to fit your text. Shop Best Sellers OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. OVERVIEW Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. +122% PERFORMANCE Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. NEWS Change the text and add your own content, including any information that is relevant to share. Then customize the font, size and scale to make it your own. You can also drag and drop this text box anywhere on the page, or switch it out with another element. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Park Jun-hee is a Korean children’s author whose picture books are known for playful premises, warm humor, and childlike imagination. Her works include The Gorilla Hair Salon, An Elephant Got Stuck, and Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep. Han Dam-hee is a Korean illustrator and picture-book creator whose expressive images have appeared in The Gorilla Hair Salon, An Elephant Got Stuck, The Rules of the Game, and The Star Papa. In Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep, Park’s comic idea of an overlooked sheep searching for a role of her own is amplified by Han’s lively character design, creating a bedtime story about perseverance, creativity, rest, and finding unexpected purpose. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PUBLISHER Korean: BookGorae Publishing PUBLICATION DATE 2017-07-18 ISBN 9791187439431 FORMAT Korean: Hardcover; Korean eBook: PDF PAGES Korean: 42p DIMENSIONS Korean: 272 × 187 × 9 mm ORIGINAL EDITION TITLE 백 번째 양 두두 PUBLICATION YEAR Korean: 2017 GENRE Picture Book (Bedtime / Perseverance & Finding Your Purpose) RIGHTS INFORMATION RIGHTS STATUS Rights Sold: Arabic (Saudi Arabia) VIDEO RESOURCE AR Book BUY LINK https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/43837759 OTHER BOOKS BY The Elephant Got Stuck! The Gorilla Hair Salon