Gusan-dong Village Municipal Library

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“A yearning wish to become reality”
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Neighborhoods and villages are similar but different. A neighborhood is a place where people live, and a village is a place where many houses live. If the former is just a collection of houses, the latter gives the impression that the houses are gathering and interacting with people is taking place.
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'Gusan-dong Library Village'. This is the space to introduce. When I first saw the name of this building, I had a question, and that was the word 'village' attached to the building. I was curious as to why the word was used for a building that did not refer to a specific site, and this question was naturally resolved by walking around and seeing the process of the creation of the library displayed everywhere.
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Narrow lobby, cluttered shelves, and insufficient seating for a library. This was my first impression of this space. The size and number of necessary rooms were insufficient compared to the buildings built a long time later than the surrounding buildings, and the space composition did not look neat to be called a new construction.
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Yes. This is a building made by demolishing and repairing 8 houses and 3 villas. The old house was demolished to become an open plaza and parking lot inside the building, and the villa's rooms and living room were renovated and transformed into an office and a cute reading room. The alleyway that connected different buildings has become a library corridor and bookshelves, allowing you to pick up books and imagine the old days of this place.
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In fact, not only the space but also the background of the library is unique. If you look around Gusan-dong, residential areas are densely packed, but parks and public buildings are not easily seen. Residents who have endured such inconveniences for a long time have personally signed a signature campaign to establish a library, and plan and practice various activities to receive various budget support. The result of the efforts of the residents was 'Gusan-dong Library Village'.
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Thanks to this, it has become a special place where people gather in Gusan-dong, Eunpyeong-gu, where there were no public facilities, rather than the usual library, to form a community, interact with each other, and enjoy leisure. Therefore, this was a small 'village' where various activities between people took place, and for that reason, the word 'village' was given to the library, not just a library or neighborhood.
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Because there was a library that was created through the efforts of the residents and a background that cannot be seen anywhere else, the inconvenience of seeing this place from the eyes of others was just a cute foolishness. I could be sure it had been established.
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This is 'Gusan-dong Library Village'.
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#A space that gives you a good _experience
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29-23, Yeonseo-ro 13-gil, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul
Weekdays: 09:00~22:00
Weekends: 09:00~18:00