Gwangju Seo-gu, Recruiting 'Youth Reading Clubs' Until the 20th

Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (District Mayor Kim Ikang) announced on the 2nd that it is recruiting participants for the youth reading club ‘1318 Seo-gu Leaders Club’ until the 20th.

This project was promoted to encourage continuous reading activities among youth and to provide an opportunity to form self-directed reading habits.

1318 Seogu Leaders Club Membership Recruitment Poster
Photo by Seogu

The recruitment target is youth aged 13 to 18 who are interested in reading activities, and it will be operated with about 50 members in five teams at Sangnok Library, Children’s Ecology Learning Library, Hwajeong 4-dong, Geumho 2-dong, and Dongcheon-dong Small Libraries.

The reading club will hold regular meetings at least once a month from next month until November, where participants will read the recommended youth book ‘One Book a Month’ and share their thoughts.

Seo-gu will provide books and activity spaces for club activities and dispatch mentor instructors who are reading experts to support various post-reading activity programs.

In addition, various programs supporting reading culture will be operated, such as the ‘Visiting 1318 Reading Culture Program’ which includes author invitation book talks for selected books, reading psychology for out-of-school youth, and picture book horticultural therapy, as well as the ‘Book Street Music Concert’ at the end of the year, which exhibits post-reading activity results and hosts lectures and performances by invited celebrities.

Applications can be submitted by downloading the form from the Seo-gu Integrated Library website and sending it via email.

For more details, inquiries can be made to the Education Library and Sangnok Library teams.

Reporter Shin Dongho, Honam Coverage Headquarters, Asia Economy baekok@asiae.co.kr

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