United by One Book! ... Gijang-gun Conducts Voting for 'Gijang-gun Book of the Year' Selection

Gijang-gun Book of the Year Promotional Poster.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Gijang-gun will conduct an online and offline survey on residents' preferences from April 25 to May 8 to finalize the selection of the ‘Gijang-gun Book of the Year’.

Now in its fifth year, the ‘Gijang-gun Book of the Year’ is a reading lifestyle campaign where the local community reads one book together and participates in reading activities to realize Gijang as a city of reading culture.

Since February, Gijang-gun has reviewed 30 books recommended by literary award winners and reading-related organizations through an internal selection committee composed of librarians from the Gijang County Library and a meeting of the hub library council consisting of reading-related organization officials, selecting 10 books.

Among the 10 selected books, a selection committee of reading experts including children’s authors, literary critics, and professors deliberated and chose four final candidate books.

The final candidate books are ▲ Suddenly Crocodile Dad (Soyeon / Biryoungso) ▲ Long Long Night (Ruri / Munhakdongne) ▲ The Child Everyone Wants (Wi Haejun / Woongjin Junior) ▲ The Seventh Yellow Bench (Eunyoung / Biryoungso). One book will be selected as the Gijang-gun Book of the Year through online and offline resident voting.

Online voting will be conducted on the Gijang-gun Integrated Library website, and offline voting can be done using ballots placed at the Gijang County Library, Eup/Myeon Administrative Welfare Centers, and local elementary schools.

Once the ‘2022 Gijang-gun Book of the Year’ is selected, various reading culture events centered around the book, such as meetings with the author and reading essay contests, will be held to engage local residents.

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