Collège de France Digitizes Ttakchibon Book Collection

A new online platform showcases these early 20th-century Korean pocket books.

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The Library of Korean Studies at the Collège de France has launched a new website to showcase its collection of Ttakchibon, Korean paperback books primarily published during the first half of the 20th century.

Emerging in the early 1910s, thanks to new printing technologies like modern movable type presses, Ttakchibon made books more affordable due to their extremely low price. The library's collection includes classic and modern novels, heroic tales, love stories, family sagas, and allegorical narratives, as well as practical works.
To promote this collection in the digital age, the library has launched a website that will be progressively enriched. Its aim is to present the collection online.
Based on information from the official source: Collège de France (13/11/2026)