Mokpo City Hosts Mokpo Literature Expo... Providing a Venue for Literary Education

Jeonnam Mokpo Office of Education and Jeonnam Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Institute Sign Business Agreement

Mokpo City signed a business agreement with Jeonnam Mokpo Office of Education and Jeonnam Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Institute on the 24th to successfully host the '2023 Mokpo Literature Expo.'

According to the city on the 25th, the agreement ceremony was held with the attendance of Mayor Park Hong-ryul, Mokpo Education Director Jeong Dae-seong, and Director Go Seok-gyu of Jeonnam Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Institute.

Mokpo City signed a business agreement with the Jeonnam Mokpo Office of Education and the Jeonnam Talent Lifelong Education Promotion Institute.
[Photo by Mokpo City]

The nation's only literature-themed literature expo is scheduled to be held from September 14 to 17 at the Mokpo Literature Hall and the Bukgyo-dong area. The city prepared this agreement to provide elementary, middle, and high school students as well as adults in the province with a place for literary education through exhibitions, events, and experiences, and to use the literature expo as an opportunity for out-of-school field education activities.

Going forward, the three organizations plan to closely cooperate on win-win collaboration for the successful hosting of the Mokpo Literature Expo, cooperation in program participation and viewing by related institution staff and students, active cooperation in student literary education exchanges and facility utilization, and information sharing and other matters among cooperating institutions.

Mayor Park Hong-ryul said, "I hope elementary, middle, and high school students and adults actively participate in the literature expo, which is held under the theme of 'A Literary Utopia Dreaming of Becoming a Writer,' and enjoy a meaningful and beneficial literary venue," adding, "Mokpo, a cultural city, will do its best to prepare so that it can leap forward as a leading literary city in Asia and the world through the literature expo."

Meanwhile, Mokpo City is accelerating preparations for the expo by incorporating the opinions of literary organizations, numerous literary figures, and citizens.

At the Mokpo Literature Hall and the Bukgyo-dong area, various events such as a young emerging writers' theme hall, cutting-edge trend media exhibition experience at the Mokpo Literature Hall, webtoon zone, independent bookstore zone, and children's literature zone will be operated, along with book talks, performances, and experiential events by various famous domestic and international writers.

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