Sopa, Bang Jung Hwan’s Declaration of Children (1923)
소파, 방정환의 아이들 선언(1923)
“Declaration of Children’s Right” by Sopa Bang Jung Hwan
Sopa, Bang Jung Hwan’s Declaration of Children’s Right (1923)
Photo 7-6. Sopa, Jeong-Hwan Bang
Source: Hankook Ilbo. May 3, 1999
To adults
① Don’t look down on children, 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 not belong to the old, not to the young, but only 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 wall or on the wall.
④ Let’s not break flowers or grass and have them to love animals.
⑤ On a public bus or train, let’s give up seats to elders.
⑥ Keep their mouth shut and keep your body right.
Soap, Bang Jeong-hwan (1899~1931) was Korea’s first child love 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