Arko 'Literature Week' Opens on the 13th of Next Month.. Participation by Poet Kim Hye-soon and Writer Park Cheon-hyu

[Financial News] A literary festival where writers and readers communicate will be held nationwide, centered around Daehak-ro, Seoul, next month.
The Korea Arts and Culture Commission (Arko) announced on the 19th that the 'Literature Week 2025' event will be held from the 13th to the 19th of next month at the Daehak-ro Arts Theater Small Theater, Arko Art Museum, Artist's House, and various locations nationwide.
This year's theme, marking the 10th anniversary, is 'Help-Reach', a combination of the words 'help-run' and 'reach'. It implies that literature provides a platform to reach each other's lives through a vigorous run-up for higher or longer jumps.
Literature Week is a festival where literary figures from across the country participate to discuss and share the value and meaning of literature with the audience. This year, a total of 52 programs, including readings, book talks, performances, and exhibitions, will be presented.
On the opening day, the 13th of next month, at the Artist's House, the theme stage 'More Than Expected, As Much As Thought' will be held, featuring a lecture by writer Park Cheon-hyu of the musical 'Maybe Happy Ending', which won six Tony Awards this year.
Following this, novelist Hwang Jeong-eun, singer-songwriter Kim Sa-wol, and actress Ok Ja-yeon, celebrating their 20th debut anniversary this year, will present the opening performance 'Nobody, To Someone'.
On the 14th, the program 'Flying, Just Before' will discuss Baek On-yu's novel 'Yuwon' and the play of the same name, and on the 15th, there will be a session where the novel 'Honmono' by Seong Hae-na is newly interpreted by shaman and writer Jeong Hong-kal.
Globally acclaimed poet Kim Hye-soon will attend the 'Kim Hye-soon, Poetry - New Poetry Collection Reading' on the last day of the event, the 19th. It is a program where other poets read Kim Hye-soon's new poetry collection.
Events prepared in collaboration with other institutions by the Korea Arts and Culture Commission are also ready.
On the 17th of next month, in cooperation with the overseas guest invitation project 'K-Fellowship' promoted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Christopher Merrill, director of the Iowa International Writing Program (IWP), will give a lecture at the Artist's House. IWP is an event where the University of Iowa in the U.S. invites writers from around the world every year to connect various literatures, and Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang has also participated.
In addition, book talks by novelist Victory and Mars in collaboration with the Korea Literature Translation Institute, and book talks by poet Hwang Yu-won and novelist Lee Yu-ri in collaboration with the National Museum of Korean Literature are scheduled.
Literature Week can be enjoyed not only in Seoul but also in other regions. On the 13th of next month, 'Together' in Busan, '80th Anniversary of Liberation, Carrying Poetry to the Heart' at Nojak Hong Sayong Literature Center in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi on the 14th, and events at 'Chaekdumbong Library' in Goseong, Gyeongnam from the 13th to the 14th will be held.
During the festival, the collaboration exhibition 'Aja! Aja!' with the Modern Children's Book Museum will be held on the first floor of the Arko Art Museum. Around Marronnier Park, a 10th-anniversary event booth and a booth to directly create Literature Week goods will be set up.



rsunjun@fnnews.com Yoo Sun-jun Reporter