Incheon Office of Education Supports Local Bookstore Reading Culture... Operates Neighborhood Bookstore Exploration Classes and More

Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] The Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education is actively promoting a local bookstore reading culture support project to revitalize neighborhood bookstores.

On the 10th, the Office of Education announced that it will implement neighborhood bookstore exploration classes, the Book Neighborhood Walk project, and the Baedari Book Culture Street creation project by linking the public, private, and academic sectors.

The newly established neighborhood bookstore exploration class is a visiting reading experience program connected with subject-specific curricula and creative experiential activities.

Together with 63 elementary, middle, and high schools selected through a public contest, involving 100 classes and clubs, activities such as creating classroom libraries with books chosen at bookstores, making neighborhood bookstore exploration maps, and writing with authors will be conducted.

The Book Neighborhood Walk project allows participants to experience local bookstores, small libraries, and cultural spaces as if traveling, through four institutions: Buk-gu Library, Seo-gu Library, Southern Education Support Office, and Early Childhood Education Promotion Institute.

Programs include ▲Buk-gu Library's 'Bupyeong Bright Book Path: Art & Book Map' ▲Seo-gu Library's 'Stamp Tour' ▲Southern Education Support Office's 'Making Our Village Fairy Tale Book' and 'Baedari Book Neighborhood Walk' ▲Early Childhood Education Promotion Institute's 'Book Culture Space.'

Programs are also prepared to develop the Baedari Used Bookstore Alley into Incheon's book culture street.

Centered around Hwadogjin Library, schools in Dong-gu district, Baedari bookstore keepers, and the Dong-gu Village Education Community plan a book festival featuring events such as ▲Connecting Baedari Authors ▲Baedari Love One-Day Currency ▲Baedari Village Photo Exhibition, involving local residents.

Additionally, the Office of Education encourages schools and public libraries to prioritize purchasing materials from local bookstores and plans to support various reading clubs, including online book clubs, to utilize bookstores.

Superintendent Do Seonghun stated, "I hope students will have opportunities to grow as lifelong readers through diverse programs," and added, "We will actively support the blossoming of a reading culture throughout the region, including Baedari Used Bookstore Alley."

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