Busan International Children's Book Fair opens on the 28th..."To the global children's content platform"

The Busan International Children's Book Fair, the first children's book exhibition in Korea, will be held at BEXCO, Busan from the 28th to the 1st of next month.

The book fair, which will be held under the theme of [Laputa], an imaginary country from Gulliver's Travels, will feature various programs with 136 Korean children's book publishers and organizations, and 57 publishers from 15 foreign countries.More than 110 famous writers at home and abroad, including Baek Hee-na of

[Cloud Bread], Lee Su-ji, winner of the Andersen Prize, David Kali, a Swiss children's literature writer, and Lin Lian of Taiwan, winner of the 2012 Bologna La Gacha Prize, will also meet readers in person.

In addition, related organizations in Busan and Gyeongnam, such as the Busan Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Busan Library, and the Hyundai Children's Book Art Museum, will also participate to introduce various children's contents.

The Korea Publishing Culture Association said that it will develop the Busan Children's Book Fair into a global children's content platform such as the Bologna International Children's Book Fair in Italy to overcome the stagnation of the domestic children's book market.