Namyangju City and Gyeonggi-do Hold 'Outdoor Library Together' Event

Seeing Books? Culture? Nature

Namyangju City held the "Outdoor Library Together" event on the 2nd in collaboration with Gyeonggi Province at the cultural park in front of the Jeong Yak-yong Library. Photo by Namyangju City

Namyangju City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Joo Gwang-deok) announced on the 4th that it successfully held the 'Outdoor Library Together' event on the 2nd in collaboration with Gyeonggi Province at the cultural park in front of the Jeong Yak-yong Library.

This event, themed "Books? Culture? Seeing Nature," was designed as a special space where visitors could read books in nature while enjoying cultural performances and exhibitions.

About 400 citizens participated in the event, spending enjoyable time reading books on the comfortably arranged lawn with bean bags, camping chairs, and mats, and watching a bubble show performance with their families. In particular, a special exhibition of author Han Kang, a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, was held, attracting great interest with digital original illustrations of the work "The Boy is Coming" and the author's published works on display.

A citizen who participated in the event said, "I listened to a lecture by author Han Kang at Jeong Yak-yong Library last year and was deeply impressed," adding, "I was even more delighted by the news of the author's Nobel Prize in Literature, and it was great to be able to see Han Kang's works collected together with the outdoor library in Namyangju City."

In addition to the outdoor library, the city operates various programs to promote reading culture, including author invitation lectures, receiving great responses from citizens. Currently, the city is conducting the "2025 Reading City Namyangju Slogan Contest." For more details, please visit the Namyangju City Library website.

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