The Sejong Books program, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea, is a national project aimed at encouraging the publication of quality books in the domestic publishing industry and fostering a reading culture among the public. 'Next-Generation Semiconductors' (Pluto, December 2023), authored by Professor Changhwan Shin of the Korea University School of Electrical Engineering, has been recognized as a book contributing to the enhancement of the nation’s reading culture and selected for the 2024 Sejong Books in the Academic Category.