Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
By Farrukh Anique || Recently, nearly thirty-thousand employees of the American multinational tech company Oracle woke up at six in the morning to find an email waiting on their phones: … Read More
By Jacqueline L. Becerra || At the hour of a setting sun, the fluorescent subway lights beam over bent postures looking at phones and over drifting sleepers. Even in transient … Read More
By Farrukh Anique || In 2005, a scandal broke in Gwangju, one that would later be retold as Dogani (도가니). The principal of a special school for children with speech … Read More
By Farrukh Anique || During the Second World War, Japanese soldiers abducted large numbers of underage girls from Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other places, forcing them to satisfy … Read More
By Farrukh Anique In an evening in October 1979, South Korea’s former-military president Park Chung-hee was sent to his grave in the midst of an elegant dinner, killed by his … Read More
“Although this film is very specific to South Korean history, it does not require the audience to have previous knowledge on the subject.”
Transnationalism and Ghostly Korean Urban Legends. By Régis Olry. A young girl in the restroom of her school realizes that there is no more toilet paper. Suddenly, she can hear … Read More
Whisperings and Topology of Anxiety Written by Régis Olry. Korean director and writer Jeong Beom-sik’s filmography is quite diversified, including the action thriller The Man from Nowhere (Ajeossi, 아저씨), the … Read More
