The Whole Family Book Festival

The Whole Family Book Festival is a representative reading culture festival of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, held every autumn since 2013 at Jeongdok Library. It creates a space where families and neighbors can come together and connect with one another through books, and is designed to let people experience the joy and value of reading in everyday life through a variety of hands-on activities, performances, and exhibitions. In particular, it has grown into a collaborative festival by bringing together libraries and lifelong learning centers, local bookstores, school reading clubs, and other institutions to run programs in which citizens and students take part directly. A wide range of programs are offered — an awards ceremony for families who read together, cultural performances, creative hands-on activities linked to books, and eco-friendly and traditional culture experiences — so that people of all ages can enjoy it. It is a meaningful event that offers an opportunity to feel that reading is more than a simple activity, but a source of everyday joy and a value shared by the community.

This is Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's long-running autumn reading festival, held at Jeongdok Library every year since 2013. It brings together families, neighbors, local bookstores, and school reading clubs for book-themed hands-on activities, performances, and an awards ceremony honoring families who read together, plus eco-friendly and traditional culture experiences.

Jeongdok Library sits in Hwa-dong, Jongno-gu, in the Bukchon area of central Seoul, so no intercity travel is needed. Take Seoul Subway Line 3 to Anguk Station and walk north through the Bukchon Hanok Village streets toward Bukchon-ro 5-gil; the venue is also reachable by local bus routes serving the Jongno-gu/Gyeongbokgung area.