How ME:LI WEEK Teaches News Literacy Through Escape Rooms
Sharpen your ability to filter out fake news with a single game. An event is being held where participants can learn 'media literacy'—the ability to understand and critically read media—through games and hands-on experiences. The Korea Press Foundation will hold '2026 Media Literacy Week - ME:LI WEEK' from October 23 through November 16, featuring participatory programs such as a curated exhibition, an escape room game, and a play. Built around the message that 'the same facts look different depending on where you stand,' this year's event uses hands-on experiences to convey the importance of not accepting information at face value but examining evidence and making one's own judgments.
Three experiential programs await visitors at a popup in Seongsu-dong, set in the year 2046. From October 24 to November 8, the popup space will host a new curated exhibition, 'No, But What If... Exhibition.' Visitors experience a single day in 2046, where AI has become deeply embedded in daily life, making choices in various situations. They then review analyses from five different AIs, each offering a distinct perspective—prompting them to reflect on the fact that even AI's judgments may be just one perspective among many.
The escape room game 'Jump x Cut' 2.0, held in the same space, shares its universe with the play 'Jump x Cut.' Starting from a single news story, participants encounter pieces of information and clues related to the incident one by one. They firsthand experience how their own judgments shift as they build on the initial information, encouraging them to consider avoiding snap conclusions based on a single piece of information and instead examining events from multiple angles.
The play 'Jump x Cut,' one of the participatory programs, depicts how a single event comes to be understood as entirely different stories through the conflicting testimonies and memories of six characters. The play will have its official premiere at the Uran Culture Foundation from November 7 to 15.
During ME:LI WEEK, related events will also be held, including a media education competition and awards ceremony, and a conference. On October 23 at the Korea Press Center, the 'National Media Education Conference' will be held under the theme 'The AI-Native Generation: Charting the Path of Media Education,' sharing directions for media education in the AI era and experiences from the classroom. At the 'ME:LI Awards' at Cube Convention Center on November 14, winners of the 7th News Reading News Diary Contest and the 8th Youth Fact-Checking (Checkton) Competition will be honored, sharing the achievements of citizens and young people who read and documented news and verified information. On the final day of the event, November 16, the 'KPF Journalism Conference' will take place at the Korea Press Center under the theme 'Asking Journalism's Next 10 Years,' discussing the future and direction of change for journalism.
Korea Press Foundation President Kim Hyo-jae said, "The same event can be interpreted differently depending on the perspective from which it is viewed," adding, "I hope this ME:LI WEEK gives citizens an opportunity to reflect on the information and judgments they are accustomed to and to understand the world more broadly through diverse perspectives."
