Busan Education Office, "Books Chosen by Students, Let's Read Together"

Operation of ‘Book of the Month We Choose’ Selected Directly by Students

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education (Acting Superintendent Choi Yoon-hong) will operate the ‘Book of the Month We Choose’ program starting this year to promote a student-led reading culture, where students directly recommend and vote for books to select one book each month.

This program is part of the Reading Change (體仁智) initiative, along with the ‘Starlight Library (school library open in the evenings and on weekends)’ and ‘Our Home Book·Mol·I (20 minutes of deep reading),’ and is one of the major tasks of the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education for 2025.

The selection of the Book of the Month will be conducted through the Citizen Library website, where elementary, middle, and high school students directly recommend candidates for the children’s and youth categories. A voting panel of 600 students, consisting of one student per school, will vote to select one book per category. The student voting panel will be composed of 300 children (grades 4?6) and 300 youths (middle and high school students).

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education plans to operate various programs linked to the selected books, such as meetings with authors, book curation, and writing classes, and will expand both online and offline promotions using notices, SNS, and mobile messengers.

Acting Superintendent Choi Yoon-hong said, “Since the books are selected by students’ direct votes, we expect that they will enjoy reading more and increase their reading volume. The ‘Book of the Month We Choose’ program, along with the Starlight Library and Our Home Book·Mol·I Challenge, which are major initiatives of Busan education in 2025, will greatly contribute to the activation of reading education programs and the spread of a reading culture.”

Books chosen by students, let's read together.

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