A Grand Memorial to Essential Korean Literary Saga
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The Taebaek Mountains Literature Hall opens next month in Boseong-gun, South Jeolla Province, where the epic saga "The Taebaek Mountains" is set. The novel, which was made into a film by Im Kwon-taek, follows the lives of a group of ordinary people in the run-up to the Korean War.
Boseong-gun is holding the opening ceremony on Nov. 21. Ground for the W4.5 billion (US$1=W1,269) project was broken in October 2005. The aim is to turn the Beolgyo area, the main background for "The Taebaek Mountains", into a tourist attraction and to shed light on the saga's celebrated author Jo Jeong-rae, who hails from the province.
On the first floor, an exhibit lays out the four years of research and six years of writing that went into the novel. Some 16,000 pages of manuscript on square writing paper will go on show. On the second floor, a Writer's Room and Book Café will reflect Jo's literary world.
A huge mosaic mural showing settings from the work including Mt. Jiri will line the retaining walls of the hall facing north to symbolize hope for the unification of the two Koreas. Some 3.5 tons of pebbles have been collected around Mt. Jiri, Jeju Island, and Mt. Seorak since last year and will be arranged into an 8 m-high and 81-long mural.
Boseong-gun Mayor Jeong Jong-hae said the result will be "a composite artistic structure harmoniously blending literature and visual art".
Boseong-gun is holding the opening ceremony on Nov. 21. Ground for the W4.5 billion (US$1=W1,269) project was broken in October 2005. The aim is to turn the Beolgyo area, the main background for "The Taebaek Mountains", into a tourist attraction and to shed light on the saga's celebrated author Jo Jeong-rae, who hails from the province.
On the first floor, an exhibit lays out the four years of research and six years of writing that went into the novel. Some 16,000 pages of manuscript on square writing paper will go on show. On the second floor, a Writer's Room and Book Café will reflect Jo's literary world.
A huge mosaic mural showing settings from the work including Mt. Jiri will line the retaining walls of the hall facing north to symbolize hope for the unification of the two Koreas. Some 3.5 tons of pebbles have been collected around Mt. Jiri, Jeju Island, and Mt. Seorak since last year and will be arranged into an 8 m-high and 81-long mural.
Boseong-gun Mayor Jeong Jong-hae said the result will be "a composite artistic structure harmoniously blending literature and visual art".
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