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Winter Book Curation “However Cold the Winter: The Recovery” to Be Held

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will operate the winter book curation exhibition, “However Cold the Winter: The Recovery—Staying by the Side of a Slow Recovery,” at the City Hall Open Library (Deullak Nallak) from today (the 12th) through February 28, 2026.

This winter book curation is designed to allow visitors to explore emotions and memories at their own pace and to expand reflection through exhibitions and experiences that trace the emotional process by which loss during a cold winter leads to recovery.

Book curation refers to a newly coined term combining “book” and “curation,” meaning the selection and recommendation of multiple books organized around a specific theme for readers.

Experiential programs based on the exhibition books include, for children, play-oriented activities centered on emotional recognition and expression—such as an emotional photo zone featuring a mother polar bear and baby polar bear, as well as formative art and writing activities that creatively reconstruct emotions and memories. For adults, reflective programs are provided, including the “Sentence of Light Collection (Writing a Calligraphic Sentence),” which helps participants organize their personal emotions and relationships.

Visitors can view the exhibited books in each book curation space and express the emotions and thoughts evoked by scenes from the books through various linked experiences, including play, objects, records, and sentences. Busan Metropolitan City expects that visitors will be offered an opportunity to personally experience the emotions of wintertime recovery that progress through the stages of “pause–gaze–transition–recovery.”

This program goes beyond a simple exhibition and is operated as a participatory reading culture model that combines “empathy through books, experience through play, and reflection through recording.” A common theme of “emotional recovery” is applied throughout the exhibition space so that all citizens can explore their inner selves through books and share emotions with one another.

Kim Gwi-ok, Director of the Youth–Industry–Academia Bureau of Busan Metropolitan City, stated, “This winter book curation was planned to allow citizens to look back on loss at their own pace within the deep emotions of winter and prepare for a new beginning,” adding, “We hope it will be a time for citizens to enjoy a new reading culture experience in which books, experiences, and people are naturally connected.”