"Sofa Bang Jung Hwan" is a friend of children forever

 Biography: Born in 1899 in Yajugae, Seoul (now Dangju-dong). attend a good commercial school Quitting school because of poverty. Working for a short time at the Land Research Bureau of the Governor-General of Korea. Married to Son Byung-hee's daughter. quit one's job as governor and attend Boseong College He left for Japan to study. I met Amgok Sofa, a Japanese children's writer, and was greatly influenced. The first children's magazine in Korea was published in 1923. The first children's cultural movement organization in 1924. Died in 1931 at the young age of 33. Order of Merit for Cultural Merit, 1978. Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1980. Bang Jeong-hwan (1899-1931), born in Seoul, was born in Ho So-hwa. After dropping out of Sunlin Commercial School and completing Boseong Specialized School, he studied philosophy at Toyo University. It organized the first children's culture movement organization, the youth club, and the youth movement council, and edited and published magazines such as "Children" (1923), the first pure children's magazine in Korea, "New Year," "New Woman" and "Student." Meanwhile, he took the lead in the enlightenment movement and the children's culture movement by presiding over fairy tale competitions, lectures on youth issues, children's arts lectures, and youth leaders' competitions. In addition to creative fairy tales, many translated and adapted fairy tales, essays, and reviews were conducted to disseminate children's literature and to protect children. In 1940, the Sofa Complete Collection was published by Park Moon Publishing Co., Ltd. and after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, the Joseon Children's Cultural Association published five volumes of Sofa Fairy Tale Reading. Meanwhile, the Sprout Association established the Sofa Award and awards it every year. Fly, birds, run through the blue sky, stream, blue fields, May is green, we grow, today is Children's Day, our world, when we grow up, let's go out holding hands with workers in the country, May is green, we grow up, today is Children's Day, our world