Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum ‘2026 Record, Busan’… illuminating the value of records

The Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum will hold a record-themed event, '2026 Records, Busan', on the first floor of the annex from the 27th to the 6th of next month.

On the first day of the event, a performance sharing session of the Urban Record School's advanced course will be held under the theme of 'From memory to records: Nakdong River and the lives of Eomgung-dong residents'.

The Urban Record School conducted oral recording in Suyeong-dong, Suyeong-gu, a village near the Suyeong River last year, and this year in Eomgung-dong, Sasang-gu, a village near the Nakdong River.

Eight people participated as narrators, including a fisherman who used the Nakdong River to catch eels and clams, a carpenter who assembled a wooden clam fishing boat, and Ajimae, a clam cook.

On the second day, novelist Kim Sum, webtoon writer Nam Jeong-hoon, and Busan city official Jae-eun Jo will be invited to a talk concert titled ‘From Records to Creation: Record Stories through Three Works.’

Novelist Kim Sum wrote the 663-page novel 'Lost Person', which tells the story of a single day in Busan on September 16, 1947.

Webtoon writer Nam Jeong-hoon introduces the picture book 'The Refugee Girl', which was selected as 'Korea's most interesting book of 2026' at this year's Seoul International Book Fair.

Jae-eun Cho, the Busan city official who planned the 'Notes that Connect Hearts' campaign, in which elderly people become the protagonists of the records, looks at the process by which one person's experiences and thoughts lead to empathy between generations.

Any citizen can participate by applying in advance on the history museum website (busan.go.kr/mmch).