Meeting Lee O-young's Lecture Podium Again Through His Handwritten Notes

The Yeongin Literature Museum announced on April 21 that it will hold its spring special exhibition, "Lee O-young at the Lecture Podium," from April 25 to May 31. Following last year's "Lee O-young as Editor," this year's exhibition focuses on highlighting Lee O-young's role as a scholar and educator.

Professor Lee Oryong lecturing at Ewha Womans University in the 1970s. Yeongin Literature Museum

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This exhibition looks back on Lee O-young's teaching career, from his first classroom appearance in 1955 to his tenure as a professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University beginning in 1967, during which he mentored countless students. The museum has been re-examining Lee O-young's life and work from various perspectives through its series of exhibitions dedicated to him.

The exhibition space will provide a multidimensional look at the significance and impact of his lectures through handwritten lecture notes, memos, photographs, and records from his students.

It also captures the struggles he faced as an early professor of modern literature, born during the colonial era and having to teach Korean literature as a self-taught scholar. The museum explained that the exhibition demonstrates how the intelligence of an era is formed and transmitted.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of literary lectures titled "The Joy of Listening to Masterful Lectures" will also be held. The lectures will take place every Saturday at 2 p.m. during the exhibition period, for a total of five sessions, and will feature Kang In-sook, director of the Yeongin Literature Museum; Kim Jin-young, professor emeritus at Yonsei University; poet Moon Chung-hee; Hong Rae-sung, professor at the University of Seoul; and Kim Hyun-ja, professor emeritus at Ewha Womans University.

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