Ahorita: A Taste from South of the Border
Written and photographed by Sarah Pittman This month’s restaurant has been causing quite a stir on the Gwangju Facebook page, so I decided to check it out. Ahorita is inspired … Read More
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Why Do L1 English Speakers Teach in Korea?
Written by Dr. David E. Shaffer There are an estimated 24,000 native English-speaking English teachers in South Korea. Regardless of how accurate that figure may be, there are a lot! … Read More
Trail Running in South Korea
Written by Ryan Thompson Run a little; walk a little. Take in the world around you. Be accepting of the fact you cannot go much faster. You are where you … Read More
My Dream Diary
Written and photographed by Elizabeth Kaye A. Corpuz We are programed to have dreams. Whether a dream will stay in our mind or is acted out in the world is … Read More
Three Reasons Why You Should Have Visited Jeonju a Long Time Ago!
Written by Cami Ismanova The city of Jeonju is well known over the “Land of the Morning Calm” and attracts both tourists and locals to its annual festivals, events of … Read More
Geumseong-sanseong: Hiking on History
Written by Blake Bouchard(Originally appearing in the July 2013 issue of the Gwangju News.) In continuing our series of reintroduced articles from past Gwangju News issues, this month we have … Read More
Odds and (Dead) Ends
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters Rather than stick to a single topic, this month’s Lost in Gwangju will be a potpourri of sorts featuring a few of the city’s … Read More
The Return of the Celadons: A Visit to the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage
Written by Monk Jang Gyong Whether one likes it or not, we live in societies that are embedded in a larger and more homogeneous system of global capitalist organizations. Perhaps … Read More