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Busan Metropolitan City Hall Open Library to Host “A Time to Reach Out to an Uneasy Heart” Program

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Busan Metropolitan City, led by Acting Mayor Kim Kyung-duk, announced that it will host the adult humanities program “A Time to Reach Out to an Uneasy Heart” for citizens at the Busan City Hall Open Library (Deullak Nallak) on May 8 and May 15.

The program has been designed in connection with the spring book recommendation exhibition “Spring, Even If It’s Not Getting Better, Is It Still Okay?” Rather than urging complete recovery, the program encourages participants to acknowledge their emotions as they are and slowly reflect on their inner thoughts through books, conversation, and writing.

Humanities and arts professionals, along with invited speakers, will participate in the program, which combines books, conversation, emotional music, and experiential activities. The event is expected to provide a space for empathy and communication where citizens can reflect on their emotions and broaden their perspectives.

In particular, the program will feature a discussion-style lecture titled “A Time to Face an Uneasy Heart,” where participants freely discuss emotions, relationships, and life based on the featured books from the exhibition. This will be followed by a writing workshop in which participants record their feelings of the day in a sentence or short poem, as well as the experiential program “A Time to Bloom the Sentences of the Heart,” where emotions are expressed through creative objects.

The first session, held on May 8, will feature cultural planner Park Jin-myung and the book “So Please Do Not Disappear,” sharing comforting words for weary hearts and offering participants a moment to gently hold on to themselves amid life’s hardships.

The second session, held on May 15, will feature broadcaster producer and photographer Kang Seong-gyu discussing “Jokes from an Old World.” Through old stories and classics, participants will revisit today’s emotions and concerns from a new perspective and reflect on their present lives in a different light.

More information about the event is available on the library website at library.busan.go.kr/openlib/index.do under the Notice Board section.

Kim Gwi-ok, Director General of the Youth and Industry-Academia Bureau, stated, “Everyone goes through difficult times in life. We hope this program will provide citizens with an opportunity to pause for a moment, reflect on their hearts through books and conversation, and offer warm comfort to one another.” She added, “We will continue to expand citizen-centered reading culture programs linked to book recommendation exhibitions and book curation in the future.”