Farmers' Literature Memorial Hall

The Peasant Literature Memorial Hall is a space for collecting, organizing, storing, and exhibiting data on peasant literature that embodies our rural reality and the joys and sorrows of farmers, as well as for meeting and sharing with authors of peasant literature. The birthplace of Nocheon-ri, Maegok-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, of novelist Lee Dong-hee, who won the 1st Muyoung Literary Award for his full-length novel “Land and Soil,” has been restored and has simple earthen walls and a roof. On the first floor, the creation room and exhibition room face the garden, and on the second floor, there is a data room, a study room, and a seminar room. Pits and Hwangaksan Mountain can be seen from the south window. On the second floor, Gwigyeongjae contains materials on the lives and works of peasant novelists including Lee Moo-young, Yoo Seung-gyu, Oh Yu-kwon, and Park Gyeong-su, and local poets such as Kim Yong-ho, Gu Sang, Kwon Woong, and Eom Han-jeong, as well as materials on the works of peasant writers, materials on the works of writers from the Yeongdong region of North Chungcheong Province, published works that provide an overview of the literature and life of writer Lee Dong-hee, books, manuscript galleys, creative notes, interview notes, and photo tapes. In addition, lecture notes, textbooks, It consists of maps, papers, literary journals and fanzines from North and South Korea, and materials on works by North Korean authors. The Peasant Literature Memorial Hall opened in 2005 and develops peasant literature that expresses the ideals of farmers and rural realities with unique Korean sentiments, putting into practice the belief that the most Korean literature becomes world literature.

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