[Hangeul Day Special] Online Korean Storybook
Happy Hangeul Day Everyone!
To celebrate Hangeul Day (Korean Alphabet Day), Korean Cultural Center
New York is pleased to present two picture book videos for this week
[Picture book #9. Crawling along the furrow & #10. A Sty for Sale]
October 9, 2020
New video will be uploaded every second and fourth Fridays of every month on KCCNY Youtube Channel (www.youtube.com/KCSNY)
Online Korean Storybook 9: Crawling along the furrow
Written by Lee Choon Hee | Illustrated by Park Cheol Min
Crawling along the furrow is an old custom that happened the day before the Korean Thanksgiving Day in Jindo. This shows us our ancestors’ wisdom concerning children's health and the land.
Online Korean Storybook 10: A Sty for Sale
Written by Lee Choon Hee | Illustrated by Shin Min Jae
Let’s learn about the way to cure the sty which was an ordinary disease a long time ago.
The ‘GookShiGgoRengEe Village (국시꼬랭이 동네)’ series is written by Korean writer Lee Choon Hee and directed by Lim Jae Hae, about the forgotten stories from traditional Korean Culture. This series is a place where the stories of Korean children in the past are still alive with vivid traces of their laughter and tears. They may appear small and in comparison to the fancy extravagant culture at the center of all the attention, therefore the village has gathered to take notice and care for the nostalgic aspects of our culture.
Today, our children go back and forth from school to other varieties of extra-curricular activities, and play with computers and televisions. There were days when children would freely run around through the mountains and fields, eating and playing with the flowers and the grass they would pick up along the way. Their imagination did not cease to grow as they played in the evening under the moonlight by stepping on the shadows that the moon provided for them, and by counting the stars in the sky.
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Safari Book for Children:
A Delightful Expedition into the Wonderful World of Reading!
Safari Publishers is an imprint of E-PUBLIC, which was founded in 1955. Safari Book has been a pioneer in publishing quality picture books for children on various fun elements of Korean culture and way of life. Some of the representative publications are GookShiGgoRengEe Village series, Koon.Jang-I series, Korean Culture Riddles series, and Save the Environment series. Safari also publishes books for teens such as the Foundation Stone series and Masterpiece series.
For more information about the Safari publishers, please visit their website at http://www.safaribook.co.kr