Request for information about libraries at the primary level in Republic of Korea

zhe**** 2022.02.06
Dear librarian,

Recently our team are studying the Grass-roots library in Republic of Korea. In our research, the concept of Grass-roots library includes town library, rural library, mobile library, community library, small and medium public library, that is, libraries at the primary level in the country.

I would really appreciate it if you could provide me information about libraries of the above types:

(1) specific laws and regulations, relevant provisions in laws or regulations;

(2) national or regional authoritative statistics data sources;

(3) current situation and trend of these kinds of libraries in recent years;

(4) important papers or reports worthy of reference.

답변

Thank you for your interest.

We answer your questions as follows.

Q1) specific laws and regulations, relevant provisions in laws or regulations;
A1) You can view it by linking to this site. The related laws are the Libraries Act and the Small Libraries Act.
https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/eng/engMain.do?eventGubun=060124

Q2) national or regional authoritative statistics data sources;
A2) You can view it by linking to this site. The related statistics data is Small Libraries
https://www.libsta.go.kr/
https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%ED%86%B5%EA%B3%84

Q3) current situation and trend of these kinds of libraries in recent years;
A3) You can view it by linking to this site.
https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%EC%9A%B4%EC%98%81

Q4) important papers or reports worthy of reference.
A4) https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%EC%97%B0%EA%B5%AC

Please understand that answers 2 to 4 are Korean sites.

Regards

묻고 답하기 목록
번호 제목 작성자 답변상태 등록일
1230 도서관 운영자 싣청 작성자 :ekd**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2026.01.01
1229 아파트내 작은도서관 운영 작성자 :pjs**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.12.31
1228 용도변경에 대해서 문의합니다 작성자 :eun**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.12.26
1227 여수 여문늘벗 작은도서관 운영시간 관련해서 작성자 :sta**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.12.12
1226 사상구 내 작은도서관 상호대차 작성자 :pea**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.12.04
1225 폐관 작은도서관 삭제 문의 작성자 :kow**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.11.21
1224 안녕하세요, 작성자 :why**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.11.21
1223 주소지 변경 작성자 :sin**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.11.19
1222 제가 거주하는 지역의 작은 도서관에서 무료 영어 스토리타임을 진행하려면 어떻게 허가를 받을 수 있을까요? 작성자 :PTo**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.11.07
1221 작은도서관 등록 가능 여부 작성자 :spr**** 답변상태 : 완료 등록일 :2025.10.28