As an aspiring designer, there clearly isn’t enough published information about Korean fashion, which really hinders the growth of the industry and general awareness of Korean fashion.
When the book gets published I’ll recommend my university library to stock up on it as an academic reference for Korean fashion. As currently despite the university offering a course in fashion design, there aren’t any books about Korean fashion in the library system

There is a book (by Phaidon?) on Japanese street fashion. No words at all. Just photos of kids on the street. Very popular here in the US, I see it everywhere.

Your project sounds ambitious, and you can do what you want, but my advice is stick to the pictures. They will knock people out.

If you’re going to self-publish, take a look at Createspace, which is owned by Amazon. That’s where you’re going to sell the most copies, and if you go with Createspace the book will automatically get listed there.

I like the idea, but I bet you would have a hard time selling 1000 copies without it being on Amazon. Especially at that price. Sorry, that’s just the way it goes. I have some experience in this arena.

You have my email address. Email me if you want to talk about it more.

Keep the feedback coming! It’s appreciated!

I live in the United States at the moment and I would definitely want to order one! However, the best way to market this would be to work something out with Amazon.com to make purchasing it easier (or at least another shopping website). If not, you should at least try to contact forums pertaining to Korean entertainment and culture (ex. Soompi, BoAjjang) and try to spread the word about it there. And of course, last but not least, there’s always word-by-mouth publicity through Facebook, MySpace, etc.

I’m looking forward to seeing more of this project of yours, and keep up the good work! I admire your articles and coverages of the fashion week, as well as the superb photography.

Are you going to be making anything else,
Like maybe a calendar? It’d look good and keep track of my days, lol.

I totally think you should go for it.

Bekah: It wouldn’t be like a fashion magazine, with specific tips or content that would be more temporary. We want all the content to be something that would be still interesting 1, 10, or 50 years from now. So, pictures of a tattoo trend in 2008 would still be interesting 50 years from now, as a record and an interesting piece, but where to find colored stockings and a list of stores would be something more for a fashion magazine and too temporary-style content. Know what I mean?

Sandra: We’d make one per season, meaning a copy could come out twice a year. Like fashion weeks. So, even though this is S/S 2009 for fashion (which looks ahead), our book would be F/W 2008 because it would cover the previous 6 months and the most recent fashion week. It’s partially a digest of stuff from the site, along with brand-new material for the book, plus coverage of the most recent fashion week. We think it would be photographically stunning, given all the material we ALREADY produce here, combined with all the major shooting we do in the one week of Seoul Fashion Week.

Catherine: Don’t know exactly how many pages, but it would hefty. Thick. And since it’d be on good paper, you would feel sturdy. We’re leaning towards very thick softcover instead of hardback since we want a photo book that is high quality, but easy to look through again and again, as well as easy to lay flat on a table. We have a couple photo books we’re looking at as a model for the cover quality, size, and thickness. We are sure if we had something similar out, it would be well-received.

Haj: The price is indeed not the same as many other books you might have purchased at such a young age (but considering the price of textbooks these days and the fact that you’re getting near college age, THAT’S gonna change soon!) but art and photo books generally range from $50-150, so ours would be on the lower end of that range, and even judged against normal books, you’d instantly see the quality difference and wouldn’t hesitate to buy it once we had samples of it up. We’re sure of that!

Thanks for the expressions of interest. Any more questions? Anyone else want to chime in about whether you’d buy, what you’d like to see, etc?