The Green Space Vendetta

This is not an article about environmentalism or protecting the wildlife.

Bondiso, an Artistic Fusion

While in Yangnim-dong, Bondiso is a must-eat restaurant. Well known among Koreans, it awaits its customers with a special atmosphere, tempting them with exotic fusion dishes never before encountered in the City of Light.

Reconnecting with Gwangju Through Saturi

There is no pure or perfectly correct saturi; everyone adopts a saturi to a degree and creates a unique blend of their own.

Teaching and Learning . . . and Well-being

When we think about teaching and learning, we think of all the time and effort teachers put into lesson planning and the ever-present administrative work, and we think of all the time students spend hunched over their textbooks, doing homework, and cramming for tests. Little do we think of our own well-being or that of our students.

Making a House a Home With Hanok Restorer Kang Dongsu

Just when you thought hanok architecture had been consigned to either moldering country homes or sterile boutique spaces, a lone hanok restorer in his mid-20s emerges with a vision to not only restore traditional houses in the present but also preserve their structural designs for posterity via 3D modeling.

The Raemi School: Looking at the Future from a Different Perspective – The Other Way Around!

The Raemi School’s name was coined by the first cohort of students themselves when the school was established in 2012. Raemi (래미) is the reversal of the syllables of the Korean word mirae (미래), which means “future.”

A Peninsula Is Liberated, a Nation Is Born: The Making of the Republic of Korea

There’s a lot to celebrate in the Republic in August: the end of the War in the Pacific (WWII), the liberation of the Korean Peninsula, and the birth of the Republic of Korea.

Two Peas in Their Pods: Yang Na-hee and Noh Yeo-woon

These two artists both take as subject matter the dwellings of the alleyways and byways of the past, but as Kang discovers, they are not two peas in the same pod – no two artists are – but these two artists’ pods spring from the same pea plant.