Forest of Wisdom (지혜의 숲)

Forest of Wisdom (Jihye-ui Sup) is a public reading-and-cultural space in Paju Book City, Gyeonggi-do, set inside the Asia Publishing Culture Information Center as one of Korea's most-cited large-scale public libraries. The space features dramatic floor-to-ceiling open shelving with hundreds of thousands of donated books across multiple floors, communal reading-lounge seating throughout, themed reading rooms, and a generous café-and-public-lounge area. The library functions as a free-access public reading lounge inside the broader Paju Book City — Korea's planned cluster of publishing-and-cultural institutions — rather than a traditional book-lending library. The visual scale of the towering bookshelves alone makes it a popular photo destination. Pairs naturally with broader Paju Book City itineraries.