Culture, Sports and Tourism Appoints Lim Joon-yeol as New Director of the National Korean Literature Museum

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Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young said he appointed Lim Joon-yeol (pen name Lim Heon-young), a literary critic, as the director of the National Museum of Korean Literature as of the 8th. The term of office of the new director is three years.

Lim Joon-yeol, the new director, has been active as a literary critic for a long time, studying Korean literature through numerous papers and publications of books and publishing more than 15 reviews. In particular, he has a broad understanding of the literary world as a whole by working for various literary organizations such as the Korean Literature Critics Association, the World Korean Writers Association, the Korean Writers Association, and the Korean Headquarters of the International Pen Club.

Founded in 2019, the National Museum of Korean Literature is an institution that promotes various projects for the collection and preservation of Korean literature materials, exhibition, research, and popularization of literature. With the aim of opening in the first half of 2027, the facility is being built in Jingwan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul.

Minister Choi Hwi-young said, "I hope the new director will work hard to increase the reliability of the operation of the National Korean Literature Center based on communication with the literary world and publicity, and to create the literature center as an open literary space where writers and the people are the owners."

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