Random House Korea

On August 15, 2006, the world’s largest publishing group, Random House Publishing Group, took over the entire stake of Random House JoongAng through a mutual agreement with JoongAng M&B, and launched in Korea a corporate sole Random House Korea.

A worldwide network of various publishing contents established.

The most notable significance of the launch of Random House Korea lies in the globalization of the Korean publishing industry. In addition, Random House Korea aims at leading the cultural and industrial globalization of the Korean publishing industry by seeking ways for aggressive and direct entry into the Asian publishing market in cooperation with Random House Kodansha of Japan and Random House Beijing of China.

The launch of Random House Korea will provide opportunities to introduce the worldwide trends of the international publishing market and a variety of cultural contents to readers in Korea through the global network of Random House Publishing Group, with 170 subsidiaries in 17 countries worldwide. Moreover, it is expected to establish a bridgehead for actively introducing the excellent cultural capacity of Korea as well as writers and publishing contents to the Asian and worldwide publishing market.

The special ability to cooperate and share writers and contents between the subsidiaries of Random House Asia is expected to contribute greatly to the globalization of the Korean publishing industry. This will further the recognition of domestic writers and facilitate the Korean publishing industry’s targeting of the Asian and world markets. 

Random House Korea has revived as the leader of knowledge-based information cultural industry in Korea by actively exchanging publications at home and abroad upon the launch of Random House Korea, all of the manpower, books, and assets of Random House JoongAng were passed onto Random House Korea. Since its launch in 2004 as the first Korea-US joint publishing company in Korea, Random House JoongAng had been leading the Korean book-publishing market with many bestsellers including The Present by Spencer Johnson, The 3rd Scenario and Sal Soo by Kim Jin-myung, He says, She says by Lee Mina, etc. Random House Korea has also acquired and integrated Blue Book a nonfiction-publishing company, and Noble House a fiction-publishing brand.

Based on the success achieved so far, Random House Korea will be the best publishing company and the reader-and content-oriented leader of the knowledge-based information cultural industry in Korea by developing and promoting quality contents and writers and by publishing and introducing quality books and bestsellers.

RANDOM HOUSE INC.
Random House Inc. is a division of Bertelsmann AG, the worldwide multimedia company As the world’s largest book publisher, Random House has local subsidiaries in 17 countries around the world and has produced more than 60 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature