Visitors read books at the Seoul Outdoor Library along Cheonggyecheon in central Seoul on May 22. [CHO JUNG-WOO]
As Korea grapples with changing demographics and a post-pandemic tourism boom, public libraries and municipal spaces are aggressively expanding their multilingual book collections.
Driven in part by the country's ongoing "text-hip" trend — where reading is embraced as a fashionable lifestyle — the broader policy shift aims to foster a more inclusive environment for international students, expatriates and tourists by ensuring access to publications in their native languages.
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