Architect Kim Won has visualized the dark modern history from Taebaek Mountain Range as a cave and spiritual court.
The Taebaek Mountain Range Literature Museum is situated 10 meters underground with a mural by artist Lee Jong-sang 8 meters high and 81 meters width in the exhibition hall. The wall-less exhibition hall on the second floor offers “The Burial Age of National History” covering the time from the liberation of the Korean Peninsula to the Korean War. The 18-meter glass “Hope for New History” tower is located on the rooftop after passing thru the dark tunnel.
Scale: 1 Building of 2 floors (total floor area: 1,375.8㎡, Land area: 4,359.6㎡, Building area: 979.7㎡) Exhibition materials: 719 contributed handwritten manuscripts, etc.
Episode 1
Writer is the Oxygen of the Age (Motivation for Writing). Four-Year Data Survey for Taebaek Mountain Range Six years of Writing Taebaek Mountain Range
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Episode 5
Open cozy reading room with a good collection of art books.
Episode 6
The only permanent exhibition in the history of world literature displays readers’ contribution of a hand-copied Taebaek Mountain Range.
The artist Jong-sang Lee’s work is 81m in width and 8m in height, covering 644 square meters.
The stone painting represents the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
The artist spent one year planning this work from April, 2007,
collecting 38,720 natural rocks from the Taebaek Mountain Range before manufacturing this magnificent mural in China.