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In the last 10 years, Korean literature has drawn substantial attention from the global book publishing industry, with “K-Literature” and the “Korean Wave in Literature” entering the lexicon. Since Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook won the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011, many Korean novels have won internationally renowned literary awards one after another, with an unprecedented amount of publishing rights sales to markets across the world. This indicates that Korean literature has shown potential as a new type of content for the Korean wave, and has entered the arena of international literature, shedding the tag of local literature. This study examines the Spanish translations of Korean literary works that have led the shift and the characteristics of their publishing in order to understand the changes in the translation of Korean literature into Spanish. Based on the analysis of the data from Overseas Translation Support Program (2001-2021) of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, a government-funded program for promoting translation and publishing of Korean literary works, this study identifies three major characteristics in the translation of K-Novels in Spanish-speaking countries: a) change in the role and status of English as an intermediary language for literature, b) change in translators, and tentatively, c) the potential for a system in which the works of a specific writer are translated by the same translator.