Weekday shelf access at the reading room

Reading Room Pass

A reading room pass is time at the shelves on a weekday. You take a desk, use the current Solana fee table, and read the merchant notes and teaching printouts the room keeps for stablecoin payments. The pass does not include a seminar seat.

An empty oak desk facing plain cloth-bound volumes on open shelves
  • Price
    12,000 KRW a day, or 60,000 KRW for six visits. Per visit, or a six-visit pass used within four months.
  • Duration
    A visit lasts until 17:30; last entry is 17:00
  • Place
    Mentis Junction reading room, Unsan-myeon, Seosan-si
  • Led by
    The room is minded by Hae-won Park or Jun-ho Bae during open hours

Who it is for

Residents and shop staff who want to read before they commit to a Saturday seminar, and regulars who return to compare a new month’s fee table with the last one.

What you leave with

You spend a quiet weekday with the collection and leave having read the fee table and whichever shelf you came for, with notes in your own notebook.

How the shelves are split

Shelf A holds monthly fee tables for Solana, with lamports written beside the SOL figure. Shelf B holds short merchant notes from stalls and cooperatives in South Chungcheong. Shelf C holds teaching printouts of public transfers with any personal memo shortened.

Shelf D is the glossary: signature, slot, lamport, mint, memo, and the difference between the stablecoin and the fee token. Start there if the other shelves feel crowded.

How a pass differs from a seminar seat

A pass buys quiet reading. It does not buy the Saturday explanation, the worked example, or a private desk briefing. Many readers use one or two visits and then reserve the seminar once the vocabulary is familiar.

On the Friday before a seminar the long table is reserved for printed sets. Pass holders use the side desks those afternoons.

Included

  • A desk while seats remain
  • Use of shelves A to D inside the room
  • The current month’s fee table
  • Tea from the urn after 11:00

Outside this sitting

  • Taking volumes home
  • A seminar seat or a desk briefing
  • After-hours access, Sunday, or Monday
  • Photocopies beyond the single glossary sheet

How a booking moves

  1. 1

    Choose a day or a six-visit pass

    Write through the contact form or pay at the door on a weekday if a desk is free. A six-visit pass is recorded in the day book under your name.

  2. 2

    Take a desk

    Bae or Park shows the shelf order once, then leaves you to read. Questions that need a full sitting are pointed toward a desk briefing rather than answered across the urn.

  3. 3

    Sign the day book when you leave

    The day book notes the date and the shelf you used. That line is how a six-visit pass is counted.

Before you come

Bring a notebook. Bags stay on the hook by the door. Food stays outside; tea is poured inside.

Conditions

  • Open Tuesday to Friday, 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:00.
  • Six desks are kept for pass holders. Seminar materials occupy the long table on the Friday before a second Saturday.
  • A six-visit pass expires four months after the first visit.
  • Volumes stay in the room. A staff member can read a short passage aloud if you ask.

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