Cricket Comes to Gwangju
The inaugural Gwangju Charity Village Cricket Festival took place in aid of Sung Bin Orphanage in 2012 at Chosun University.
Author: Gwangju News
Photo Essay: MDream Orphanage BBQ
Nothing beats hanging out in a park with cute orphans while shooting photos and scarfing down free food.
Korean Literature Review – A Toy City
‘Not a single thing would be accomplished in this world if everybody laughed and cried whenever they felt like it.’
Korean Literature Review – A Man
“There are certain parts of the world where writers tend to produce literature richer in metaphor than that of their contemporaries in other places… Of course, one might easily add Korea to this list.”
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Behind the Myth: Exercise to Increase Your Height?
This month’s Korean myth deals with a person’s height. In Korea, many people believe playing basketball, jumping rope, stretching and other physical exercises can help you grow taller.
What Happened to Natural Births?
What if at some point in the future there are no more natural births? People would talk about natural birth as a sort of urban legend or conspiracy theory, questioning that there was ever a time when women didn’t always induce their births and have Cesarean sections.
A Riverside and Her Poet
There is a place of easy hiking and quiet landscape that is unknown to most foreigners. It is called Seomjingong River.