From Hemingway to Alice Munro... Gwangju Students Head to North America

Gwangju Office of Education Launches 'To the World Through Books' Project
Promoting the May 18 Democratization Movement Through Han Kang's Works

Gwangju students are embarking on a special journey to meet the masters of world literature.

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According to the Gwangju Office of Education on the 19th, the "On the Road to the Nobel Prize in Literature! Florida & Toronto Project" will take place this May. This project is part of the "To the World Through Books" program, which is operated as a "World Humanities and Classical Literature Tour." This year, inspired by the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Han Kang, a writer from Gwangju, the program will offer students an opportunity to trace the footsteps of past Nobel laureates in literature.

The Office of Education will select participants through school recommendations, targeting those who have excelled in various reading programs, including the Reading Marathon.

Participating students will embark on a 12-day, 10-night trip, visiting places such as Florida in the United States and Toronto in Canada. They will experience museums and backgrounds featured in the works of literary giants such as Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, and Alice Munro, a master of contemporary short stories and the 2013 Nobel laureate. In addition, at institutions like the University of Georgia and the University of South Florida Tampa, students will read Han Kang's "The Boy Is Coming" with local students and introduce the May 18 Democratization Movement.

Superintendent Lee Jungseon said, "I hope our students will follow in the footsteps of Nobel laureates in literature and nurture and realize their own dreams."

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