'Midnight Readers' Featuring Kim Joonghyuk and Jang Hangjun Live Every Wednesday

Korea Arts & Culture Education Service Humanities 360° Website
Every Wednesday at 9 PM until February 28

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Arts Council Korea announced on the 3rd that they will live stream "Midnight Readers" every Wednesday at 9 PM until February 28th through the Humanities 360° website, official YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms.

'Readers in the Midnight' Poster [Photo by Korea Arts & Culture Education Service]

Humanities 360° is a comprehensive digital platform for humanities and spiritual culture that supports humanities program operations, learning and follow-up activities, various humanities content and information, and humanities archiving.

"Midnight Readers" features various prominent figures from the cultural and arts sectors as readers who personally select and read aloud sentences from books that comforted them. They also receive stories from the public and engage in sincere real-time conversations to communicate.

Readers appearing in January include writer (and lawyer) Jeong Ji-woo, poet Park Jun, poet and singer-songwriter Siwa, and film director Jang Hang-jun. In February, a total of eight people, including actress Lee Seol, travel writer Choi Gap-su, novelist Kim Jung-hyuk, and YouTuber Kim Gyeoul, will appear in a relay format, each participating in one episode.

The theme of Season 1 of "Midnight Readers" is "Sentences that Comfort Me." This theme emphasizes the connection between people, aiming to create empathy with the public through emotional moments of understanding and supporting each other.

An official from the Arts Council said, "'Midnight Readers' hopes to establish itself as a humanities communication content that embraces and comforts the daily pressures, isolation, and numerous psychological challenges faced especially by young people in modern society, going beyond simple entertainment or humanities derivative content." They added, "We will continue to do our best to spread humanities and spiritual culture using the Humanities 360° website."

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