'2023 Dongdaemun-gu Book Festival' Held

On the 4th, from 1 to 5 PM at Baebongsan Neighborhood Park Outdoor Stage, various library experience booths and a meeting with children's book author Hong Min-jeong will be held

Dongdaemun-gu (Mayor Lee Pil-hyung) announced on the 4th that it will hold the "2023 Dongdaemun-gu Book Festival" at the outdoor stage of Baebongsan Neighborhood Park.

More than 20 public, private, municipal, and school libraries, as well as the Eastern Education Support Office, will directly participate from planning to operation of the festival, offering a variety of enjoyable activities including 15 experience booths and a meeting with children’s book author Hong Min-jung (author of the original fairy tale "Cat Troubleshooter Kkamnyang").

At each experience booth on the day, various programs will be operated such as ▲making eco-friendly shampoo bars and body bars ▲receiving master postcard prescriptions and star candy medicine pouches ▲making Shrinkles bookmarks ▲separation recycling basketball game ▲future science book curation ▲solving quizzes on renewable energy to save the Earth! ▲drawing with flower stickers ▲making fabric name tags ▲meeting Da Vinci parachutes and bridge making at the library, among others. Visitors can exchange 3 used books for one free pass to use the experience booths.

An event exchanging 3 used books for 1 new book will also be held, and when new books run out, used books can be exchanged on a one-to-one basis. A stamp tour of the experience booths will be conducted where collecting stamps from 5 experience booths allows visitors to receive used books at the book exchange booth.

Meanwhile, at the outdoor stage of the event venue, pre-event performances such as balloon art will begin at 1 PM, followed by official ceremonies including commendations for library contributors and awarding certificates to reading families, and a vocal performance by the band Ossil. From 3 PM, a meeting with children’s book author Hong Min-jung will be held under the theme "How Did Kkamnyang Become a Troubleshooter?" After the meeting, a signing event will be held where visitors can get autographs on the author’s books.

This event is open to students, parents, and anyone interested. Since there is no separate parking lot at Baebongsan Neighborhood Park, visitors to the event are advised to use public transportation. However, entry may be restricted for safety if the expected number of people in front of the outdoor stage is exceeded.

Lee Pil-hyung, Mayor of Dongdaemun-gu, said, "I hope many people will come to this event where they can exchange books they no longer read for new ones and enjoy various experience booths, fostering greater interest in books and libraries and spreading a culture of reading."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.