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Reportage
Ji-yeon
ⓒAllphotostakenbyPark
▲Anelectricladderandaladderwithwheelsarenotinuse.
to her explanation, Paju Bookcity is not
organized. In the Forest of Wisdom,
a residential area and the transportation
everyone keeps their eyes wide open to
is not good late at night so it is mostly
findthebooktheywanttoreadandskim
visitors staying at the Jijihyang that use
throughitbeforeitistimetogohome.
thelibraryonceinawhile.
Also,bookadviserHanSoon-dansays
ThoughSection3isopentothepublic
that though the Forest of Wisdom is the
24 hours a day, it is mostly empty from
first open library in Korea, if indiscreet
night until early morning. Unless a
acts are noticed more often, restrictions
person staying at the Jijihyang cannot
will also have to happen. “Mothers
fallasleepatnightandvisitsthelibrary,
consider this library a sightseeing
onecannothelpbutquestionthepointof
course. When I see mothers bringing
beingopenalldayandnight.
lunch boxes and talking away while
leaving their children play around the
bookshelves, I realize how people’s
library manners are still undeveloped,”
Tonotbecomea‘PaperForest’
shesaid.
A library that is not computerized
means that people can only read the
TheForestofWisdomisdifferentfrom
random books they come upon while
typical libraries in that it is open; open
browsing the bookshelves and this is all
choice of books, and open to everyone.
thatispossibleattheForestofWisdom.
However, if it doesn’t want to become
Duetothebooksbeingorganizedbythe
an‘unfriendly’librarytoo,thereshould
order in which they were donated, and
be improvements in its organizing and
with no searching service, people were
borrowingsystem,openingupthebooks
choosing books that seemed interesting
onthetopshelves,restrictingdistracting
instead of looking up the books that
activities,andopenhours.Peopleexpect
they wanted to read. “I didn’t expect
the Forest of Wisdom to have the basic
to,butIreallylikethebookIrandomly
qualifications of a library so that they
found here. It would have been better
can use it as a place where they can
if I could borrow it,” said Park So-
freelyreadbooks.
yeon. According to Lee Ju-hyeon, the
booksaren’tboundinatypicalmethod,
bloomindi@hufs.ac.kr
and unfortunately, the books are not
www.theargus.org
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