Icheon City Promotes Construction of Korea's First Children's Song Museum

Buak Park to Open at the End of 2024 on 10,000㎡... Exhibiting Over 700 Dongyo Materials

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On the 19th, Icheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it will be the first local government to promote the construction of a Children's Song Museum. A feasibility study and basic planning service will be conducted by the end of April. The site is 10,543㎡ within Buak Park (Gwango-dong), which is designated as a private park special project area. The museum will be built with a total area of 1,843㎡, consisting of one basement floor and two above-ground floors. The project operator of Buak Park will invest 6 billion KRW to build the museum and donate it to the city. The city will spend 1.5 billion KRW to equip the museum with a children's song performance hall, a children's song distribution recording studio, and a children's song karaoke room. The scheduled opening date is the end of 2024.

The exhibition hall will display over 700 items related to children's songs, collected by the Seohui Youth Culture Center. The Seohui Youth Culture Center preserves and exhibits framed sheet music and lyrics of Yoon Geuk-young’s “Bandal,” Korea’s first original children's song (1924), music textbooks and children's song magazines from the 1920s onward, children's song LP records, and a pump organ used in elementary schools in the 1970s. A city official stated, “Since 2010, we have been dedicated to promoting children's songs by annually hosting the 'National Chick Creative Children's Song Festival,' the only creative children's song contest for preschoolers nationwide, in Icheon. Once the Children's Song Museum is completed, it will firmly establish Icheon as the hometown of children's songs.”

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