Healing in Nature: Forest Book Café Opens at Barasan Natural Recreation Forest in Uiwang

[Suwon Ilbo=Seo Dong-young Reporter] Uiwang City announced on the 6th that it has established 'forest book cafés' at four locations—the forest experience learning center, lodging facilities, and camping areas A and B at Barasan Natural Recreation Forest—and stocked approximately 750 books.

The forest book café at Barasan Natural Recreation Forest is a space where people meet, communicate, and find healing through books in a natural environment.

At the forest book café on the deck of the forest experience learning center connected to walking trails, tables and chairs have been arranged to provide citizens with reading spaces.

In addition, books related to nature and insects have been stocked so that families visiting the recreation forest and the forest guide programs operated by the facility can utilize them.

Gwak Han-gyu, director of Naeson Library, said, "I hope that visitors to the forest book café will escape the frustration of staying indoors, as people are refraining from outdoor activities and staying home is the norm during these times of COVID-19."