Expected to Inherit the Literary Spirit of Mok Il-sin and Spread the Value of Children's Literature

On the 1st, Bucheon City held a ‘Mok Il-sin Cultural Foundation Book Donation Ceremony’ at the reopening of Simgok Library, carrying out a book-sharing event for children and citizens.

The Mok Il-sin Cultural Foundation (Chairman Yang Jae-su) has donated a total of 1,000 children's literature books, worth approximately 15 million won, to the Bucheon City Byeolbitmaru Library from 2024 to the present. This donation was arranged as part of the foundation's social contribution activities to inherit the literary spirit of Mok Il-sin and promote children's literature.

The donated books include winning works of the ‘2024 6th Mok Il-sin Children's Literature Award’—the fairy tale book Byeolhayakbang: A Secret Errand and the poetry collection I Might Just Explode—as well as winning works of the Mok Il-sin Children's Literature Award selected annually since 2019, and Mok Il-sin's own children's poetry collection, Sansinae.

The donated books were distributed to schools within Bucheon City, public and private small libraries, and major national hub libraries such as the National Assembly Library, as well as schools and mountain-area libraries in Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, the hometown of Mok Il-sin. Through this, the Byeolbitmaru Library is spreading the literary spirit of Mok Il-sin and is practicing literary sharing on a national level, beyond just Bucheon, the city of reading.

A person from a private small library in Bucheon City who received the books said, “We are happy to have received books essential for the library’s operation at a time when the budget for new book purchases is insufficient this year. We are grateful that thanks to this kind of sharing, citizens continue to visit the small library.”

An official from the Bucheon City Library said, “The book donation from the Mok Il-sin Cultural Foundation will be a valuable opportunity to convey the joy of reading not only to children within the city but also to those in mountain areas. We hope that through this donation, the literary spirit of Mok Il-sin will become widely known and the value of children's literature will spread nationwide.”

The donated books will be displayed on the 4th-floor book curation shelf to coincide with the reopening of Simgok Library and will be available for any citizen to freely browse.