SIBF 2025 18-22 June, 2025 l COEX Halls A & B1

Guest of Honor Pavilion

Sharjah Book Fair(2023)

Exhibition

Exhibition in Sharjah Book Fair

Theme Exhibition <Unlimited Imagination>

<Introduction>
"The impossible is possible.”
These were the words shared by the United Arab Emirates' space center as its Mars rover Amal (Hope) entered Mars’ orbit in 2021. Arab civilization, which carried the torch of knowledge to the West for the past two millennia, and Korea, which has been a beacon to the East, want to carry each other's light and reach out into a universe of infinite possibilities.

The Anthropocene crisis facing our planet today is called a failure of language, a failure of imagination. If humanity is to emerge from this crisis, we must shake our senses, wake up, reframe, and reimagine the world by creating our own language.
The human imagination, housed in our 1.4-kilogram brains, is the most powerful tool we have to inspire the social change our time demands.

The power to create new cultural values comes from the stories that move people. The power of culture lies in the power of stories.
Here, in the Guest of Honor Pavilion at the Sharjah International Book Fair, Korean authors present stories about space, objects, machines, flora and fauna, artificial intelligence, aliens, and the unknown.

The boundless imagination contained within these books will give you the power to reconstruct memories of the past, awaken your sense of the present, create the future, and make the impossible possible.

<Composition>
1. Event Horizon
: A beam of imaginary light exits the event horizon and enters the universe, the earth, the ecosystem, the online space. (The universe, the earth, the ecosystem, the online space...)

2. Palace of Memories
: The light of imagination, dwelling in infinite space and time, reaches human memory and blossoms into stories of myth, religion, and history. (Myth, religion, monsters, history...)

3. Expansion of Senses
: The light of the imagination awakens our sense of the present and expands our sense of others, non-humans, and community. (Animals, plants, humans, community)

4. Emerging Future
: Now, the light of your imagination will converge into an amazing story that will change the world (sci-fi, machines, robots, dystopia...)

Korean Literature Special Exhibition

Wider Horizons, Wider Worlds

<Introduction>
To celebrate Korea's participation as Guest of Honor at the Sharjah International Book Fair(SIBF) 2023, LTI Korea is presenting a special exhibition of Korean literature. Under the theme "Unlimited Imagination", the exhibition showcases the works of seven Korean authors participating in this year's Sharjah International Book Fair. The world of literary imagination, filled with poetic images and fictional characters, welcomes everyone. Readers are invited to delve into the unique creative imagination of the seven participating authors.

- Participatnts: Kim Seung-Hee, Jeong Ho-seung, Kim Ae-ran, Kim Un-su, Bae Myung-hoon, Sohn Won-pyung, Sun-mi Hwang

<Composition>
- Anthology <Wider Horizons, Wider Worlds: Korean Literature Stories & Poems

Picture Book Exhibitions

<Introduction>
Our lives consist of both reality and imagination. Imagination plays an especially large role in the lives of children. All elements of life may become the raw ingredients of imagination, and the world of a child can be enriched by pairing imagination with reality. Every conceivable thing can help children to grow their imagination: from letters to disposable gloves, every person from the child themself to a child in a faraway land seen only in a picture, every part of nature from a tiny flower to a summer day in torrential rain, and phenomena of life from birth to death. In doing so, they listen to the voice inside themselves and the words of other beings and can travel beyond the universe. This imaginative space can become even more expansive when accompanied by picture books.

- Participants: Kyeong Hye-won, Kim Sang-geun, Park Hyeon-min, Seo Hyeon, Choi Hyejin

<Composition>
- <Picture Books, a Whole Universe of Imagination>
- <Playful Artists, Expanding Genre>
- #BottariVacance <Let Stories Take You on an Exciting Vacation>