Sopa, Bang Jung Hwan’s Declaration of Children’s right (1923) in Korea

 

Photo 7-6. Sopa, Jeong-Hwan Bang

 

To adults

① Don’t look down on children, but play with them.

② Get close to children and talk to them often

③ Write honorific words to children, but always soften them.

④ Make sure they have a haircut, bath, or clothes in time.

⑤ Make sure they sleep and exercise enough

⑥ Please give them things like walking with you from time to time

⑦ When reproaching a child, don’t be easily provoked and give him a posture.

⑧ Build playgrounds and machines where children can have fun with each other.

⑨ Always remember that the peripheral nerves of the grand universe do belong not only to the old, young, but also to children.

 To young comrades

① Let’s make sure they do see the rising and setting sun.

② Let’s be respectful to each other as well as to adults.

③ Let’s not write or draw pictures on the room walls or on any other wall.

④ Let’s not break flowers or grass and have them to love animals.

⑤ On a public bus or the train, let’s give up seats to elders.

⑥ Keep your mouth shut and keep your body right.

Soap, Bang Jeong-hwan (1899~1931) was Korea’s first child love advocate and activist and patriotic enlightenment activist.

By changing the word “baby” or “Ae-Sa-ki” to the word children, emphasizing the human rights of children who were marginalized and undermined in feudal society

Making fairy tales for children

He has produced various magazines such as “Children”.

Source: The Hankook Ilbo. May 3, 1999