On June 20, World Refugee Day, a human library will be held with refugees who identify as refugees and live in Korea. It will take place in Seoul and Jeju Island together with visual arts activist Jeram, and Kim Young-ah, Executive Director of Migration to Asia Peace (MAP), will join as a consecutive interpreter.
On June 16, a human library with three people, Kim Min-hyeok, Eden and Rostami Reza, will be held at Ihoo Books in Mapo-gu, Seoul. We will listen to their stories as if reading them as books, and share our conversation.
For three days, June 19, 20 and 21, a human library with three people, Munu Nure Justin, Yasmin and Majun, will be held on Jeju Island. It will take place with children, teenagers and adults at various venues. With children, through a drawing workshop, we will talk with the human books about the people they like most, happy memories, sad moments and precious objects, and try drawing them. For teenagers and adults, we will listen to the human books’ stories through a book talk and have a conversation.