Gwangju Design Biennale: Interview with General Director Ken Nah

It’s that time of year again: time for the annual Gwangju Design Biennale. This year’s two-month-long exposition runs from September 7 to November 7. The general director of this year’s decennial exhibition is Ken Nah, and the Gwangju News was fortunate to be able to catch up with him for the following interview just prior to the opening of the Design Biennale. — Ed.

The “World” and “Human Rights”: The WHRCF

Gwangju will host its 13th World Human Rights Cities Forum from October 4 to 7 at the Kim Daejung Convention Center. This year focuses on the poverty and inequalities that make realizing human rights impossible. To highlight the crisis: 600 million people will live in extreme poverty by 2030. The recent pandemic shows how inequalities in damage and recovery go far beyond one person having a nicer television than his neighbor. Jobs, lives, vaccine distribution, and even the economic and social fabric of entire communities are on the line.

Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI By Reid Hoffman with GPT-4

Reid Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, author, and billionaire. He was the co-founder of LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network. He is an unabashed believer in the potential of AI to not only create a better world but to spawn more enlightened humans. In his book, Impromptu, he explains his reasoning and provides detailed statements created by GPT-4. In this review, I want to be as minimally technical as I can. But I think it is important to understand that GPT-4 refers to Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4, which is a ‘Large Language Model’ created by OpenAI.

An Unfinished Dream

Ah, finally… the first step to the dream that she has been seeing with her eyes open since 2016. Incheon Airport is right in front of her. The staircase is being set slowly before her, but her heart is beating fast. She feels like pinching herself. Is it for real or a dream?

Jeong: A Shared Connection

My family rarely ate out when I was a kid. We still do not.

In my hometown, the restaurant scene consisted of large chains or overpriced local restaurants with mediocre food. In my hometown, foodies would cry. I know I did.

Café-Hopping Discoveries: Pastries & Nails, Anyone?

Care for a slow day in Gwangju? We have got a two-spot itinerary just for you!

Building Rapport Through Multimodal Lessons: Value Shields

By Maria Lisak While my students may feel lots of loyalty to each other for being Korean and united under Han (the Korean Han nation), classism, sexism, and lookism can … Read More