The New Korean Book of Mormon is here! Nov 10, 2005.

11/10/2005. The new edition Korean Book of Mormon, copyright 2005, softcover, catalog # 34407-320 is out! The Salt Lake Distribution Center has it, www.ldscatalog.com

This new edition has the newer footnotes, which I assume correspond to the footnotes in the English edition. The text is in two columns and the footnotes are in three columns like they have been in the English edition. Also in the new edition is the Guide to the Scriptures, or Guide to the Study of the Scriptures, I'm not sure the exact title.

This edition looks like it was printed by the church's printing division, whereas the previous edition was printed in Korea. This edition has larger physical dimensions as the text font is bigger than the previous edition.

For those who need to be told, this post is intentionally geeky. Think Steve Martin saying: "The new phone book's here!" But I do want to point out that the monumental translation effort of the church continues forward, with new languages, and creating more material in currently-served languages. Since the church doesn't publish Bibles in other languages, putting the Guide to the Scriptures (or Guide to the Study of the Scriptures) in our foreign-language editions of the Book of Mormon makes sense.