UNESCO-APCAD Youth Camp: For AI in an Inclusive Future

By Luis Andrés González From July 3 to July 8, Gwangju City hosted the 2025 Youth Camp organized by UNESCO (United Nations  Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) and APCAD (Asia-Pacific Coalition of Cities Against Discrimination) under the theme “AI for All: … Read More

Rocket Salad: Affordable Vintage Designer Shop in Gwangju

By Maryam Ali Rocket Salad is located near Fashion Street on Chungjang-ro. It’s pleasing to see the growing trend of vintage designers expanding to Gwangju with this store. It’s a … Read More

Inside the Gwangju News: Writer Extraordinaire – Neha Bisht

Interviewed by David Shaffer This column features each month one of our regular writers for the Gwangju News for our readers to get to know them better. These windows on … Read More

Exhibition: KEET 2025 – Korea Environment and Energy Trade Fair at KDJ

By Chung Hyunhwa KEET 2025, the Korea Environment and Energy Trade Fair hosted by Gwangju Metropolitan City, Jeonnam  Province, and the Yeongsan River Basin Environmental Office, was held for three days … Read More

Nanorobots: Particles for Big Problems

By Saqib Sharif Imagine a tiny robot so small that millions of them could fit on the tip of a pencil. Now imagine  these  robots  swimming  through your bloodstream, guided … Read More

Alphabet Soup: Making Sense of ESL’s Menu of Acronyms and Initialisms

By David Shaffer Recently, I was reading an article on English language  teaching,  and  an  initialism popped up at me that I didn’t immediately recognize: SDGs. Though not specific to … Read More

Bridging Cultures Through Stories: Ukrainian Volunteers in Gwangju

By Anastasiia Prysiazhniuk I came to Gwangju to study Korean as a GKS-IRTS scholar, but I ended up finding something even more meaningful. Through a friend, I learned about the … Read More

Study, Graduate, Confused: A Real Portrait of Today’s Academia

By A. Ayuningsih Not long ago, I found myself sitting in a large conference hall in South Korea, surrounded by academic posters and PowerPoint slides packed with technical jargon. It … Read More