Mindful Diet: The Climate (and Food!) Crisis
“They say that if you have one meat-free meal a week for a year, it has the same effect of planting 15 trees a year.”
Author: Gwangju News
Learning Outside the Classroom
“Find ways to excel with your abilities, improve your skills, and remember that we will be students forever, so let’s choose our methods of learning early.”
The Story on Using Stories for Language Learning
Everyone likes stories! We listened to stories from our mother as soon as we were old enough to hear. We followed attentively as we were read storybook stories (over and over) at bedtime. The main form of teaching for millennia has been via stories told by village elders to the children. If people like stories so much and if learning, including first-language learning, takes place through stories, how effective would they be in teaching a second language such as English? To answer this question, we look to Jessica Magnusson.
Barbershop of Horrors
As a foreigner/expat/immigrant here in Korea, there is perhaps a no more terrifying experience than getting your hair cut.
The “Magical” Castles of Romania
Romanian castles preserve between their walls medieval stories about voivodes (governors) and kings, hide legends and bloody battles, or bathe in jewelry and treasures – castles that seem to rise from a rock and that give even more charm to a country that has so much to offer.
Youth on the Bubble: Shopping for a Home in Gwangju’s Overheated Housing Market
Korea’s millions of barbeque-loving boomers face a similar dilemma when it comes to apartment life. Lacking even the smallest external balconies, their apartments force them to buy half a home’s worth of additional appliances and camping gear so they can approximate backyard cookouts at overcrowded campsites.
The Revered and the Feared: Korea’s Mountain Spirits and Hobgoblins
With Halloween just behind us, this is as apropos a time as any to talk about spirits and the supernatural.
Three Things with Jon Dunbar
Jon Dunbar is the antithesis of the average Western expat in Korea.