Information that you listen to in an unnecessary way or over your shoulder may cause you to “Oh, my!” while traveling. The booklet meets a book that introduces Switzerland, one of the “bucket list destinations,” from a cultural and artistic perspective, and a book that guides the author, who served as an art teacher, directly from Europe in the textbook.
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It’s like an art book, but a travel guide book
a Swiss art trip
Written by Yoon Seo-young, 30,000 won
The book “Swiss Art Travel” is like an art book, but it is actually a travel guidebook, boasting a whopping 408 pages. I wonder if it is the greed of the author Yoon Seo-young, but if you look closely at the path he has taken, you can accept it. As a reporter for an English-language daily newspaper, he has created content in the field of culture and travel for more than 10 years, crossing various magazines and broadcasting. Since then, he has worked as a cultural public information officer at the Swiss Embassy in Korea, and has established “The Seoul Collective” these days to plan various programs to enhance cultural understanding between Korea and overseas. Moreover, he spent his school days living in Switzerland with his father, a diplomat, and even earned a master’s degree in strategic design management from Parsons School of Design, a world-class design school.
The author looked at Switzerland in many ways. It went beyond Switzerland, known only for nature and recreation, as well as secret spaces that only locals cannot find, and released them with eyes on art, culture, architecture and design. Therefore, this book is more suitable for travel guidebooks than art books. While the existing travel book is an information-oriented description, the book met and interviewed 38 people from the culture and arts world, including local Swiss artists, architects, designers, and cultural planners, and introduced their favorite places. The 293 places in the book are the places that the interviewers enjoyed and recommended with affection. Among them, there are already well-known art galleries and museums, but there are also many hidden attractions that contain personal senses. Local cafes and restaurants, lakes and trails, workshops, bars and clubs are also places where the interviewees’ creation, thinking, and life are projected. For this reason, a trip to Switzerland in the book is a journey to read the city as art and to walk through places through people’s stories.
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a curious adventure between a child and a mother
a trip to Europe by textbook
Written by Nam Hwa-jeong, 19,500 won
Author Nam Hwa-jung, who has taught art to children for a long time, lived in England and traveled countless times reading picture books and talking with her daughter Ella. As time passed and I repeated these moments, I felt that the journey became deeper and warmer as time went by. Then I try to follow the story and draw a map many times. Writing along the map, he continued to publish a book called Travel to Europe in Textbooks. The author says it is more effective to focus on experiencing things with the desire to know more about something with your child.
In that sense, it is clear that Europe is quite far from our country, so it is not a place to leave lightly. However, European culture permeates our daily lives, making it well worth the challenge with travel. Most of the Greek and Roman myths that children enjoy reading, as well as the works of artists in art textbooks and classical music in music textbooks, were passed down from Europe. In addition, many topics learned in textbooks, such as English, social studies, and science, are linked to European history. A book leads to books and movies recommended by the author after reading a story. It is designed to make the child feel the fun of digging deep into a topic. In between, dishes from 10 European countries were also published. This is about 100 cooking illustrations that the author has worked with his child on masking tape.
The book contains the mother’s desire to show her child the wider world and the child’s curious adventure into the unknown. The vivid information in the book posted while experiencing an unfamiliar culture conveys the joy of reading as well as the connection of subjects that are not boring to children.
[Jang Joo Young Travel + Reporter]