It is the nation's sole public-profit oriented book distribution center authorized in 1962 pursuant to the Enforcement Decree of the Small and Medium Enterprise Cooperative Act.

Established in 1958 (46 member companies with headquarters in Insa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul) with warehouse located in Paju Book City for joint sale of publications.

To protect member companies from such difficulties, the Korean Publishers Cooperativeformed a unified supply system for the joint storage, delivery and marketing.

In 2008, the cooperative signed an MOU with the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation to operate seven Happy Bookstores in subway lines 5, 6, 7 and 8.

This experience enables the cooperative to supply books needed by the state and public university libraries, schools, government offices, enterprises and research institutes.

In addition, the cooperative provides consulting services to the government offices or ordinary enterprises so they can more effectively plan, select, and buy books needed on an irregular basis.

The cooperative has built MARC Data and supplied them to all libraries operating in the nation, maintaining a more than 95% delivery rate by collecting books based on the order catalogs.