Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum to Host Public-Private Humanities Program 'Everyone's Annex'

[Financial News] The Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum announced on the 18th that it will host the public-private humanities program 'Everyone's Annex' on the first floor of the museum's annex on the afternoon of the 31st.


The program is a humanities event organized through public-private collaboration to introduce cultural content created by local humanities organizations to the public. This year, the museum will stage the event with Munhwa Yumok Jipdan Donghaeng, a professional cultural arts organization in Busan founded in 2021.
Munhwa Yumok Jipdan Donghaeng is an organization that has explored new possibilities in the performing arts through projects connecting diverse genres such as philosophy, literature, film and history, and has provided performances not only in professional venues but also close to where citizens live their daily lives. Drawing on this expertise, it has developed performance content spanning the lives of figures, literature, works and modern and contemporary Korean history, and will present it to the public at the annex of the Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum, a humanities and cultural complex.
The event will take the form of a literary concert, bringing to life through music and readings the life and creative world of 'Nalim Lee Byung-ju,' a leading Busan journalist who worked in the city and a giant of Korean literature. Lee Byung-ju previously served as editor-in-chief and chief editorial writer at Kukje Shinmun, and experienced firsthand in Busan the tumultuous period of modern Korean history.
The program will feature a selection of 10 pieces of music that appear in his representative novels, including 'Gwanbu Yeollakseon,' 'Alexandria' and 'Yenang Pungmulji.' Key selections include the Gangwon-do folk song, the Gangwon-do folk song 'Han O-baengnyeon' (from the novel 'Alexandria'), and 'Tears Flowing in Secret' (from the novel 'Gwanbu Yeollakseon'), an aria from the opera 'The Elixir of Love.'
The museum will accept registrations for 40 people on a first-come, first-served basis through its official website. Anyone can take part for free.
Museum Director Kim Ki-yong said, "Through Lee Byung-ju's works and music, this will be a meaningful opportunity to view the modern and contemporary history of Busan and Korea from a new perspective, with Lee Byung-ju having lived at the heart of that history."
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