Leo Mendoza’s Shindogs Air: Keeping Pets with Their People

Written by Sarah Pittman. If you have spent any time in one of the many Facebook groups dedicated to living as a foreigner in Korea, you are sure to have … Read More

Introducing Toastmasters: The Birth of a Gwangju Club

Written by Yun-hee Seol. “Everywhere and anywhere, in whatever field you work, there are two fundamental skills that are required for you to be successful: communication and leadership,” says Dong-Wan … Read More

A Decade of Deliciousness: The First Alleyway Celebrates 10 Years

Written by William Urbanski. If ever there was a business in Gwangju that acted as a community institution, The First Alleyway would be it. Since first coming to Korea over … Read More

Mudolgil, Gwangju’s Camino de Jeollado

Written by Ian Knecht. Some of us fantasize of trekking across the Spanish countryside on the Camino de Santiago. For those of us living in Korea, how about the Mudolgil? … Read More

Meet the Gwangju Bombers

Written by Joel Klimas. The Gwangju Bombers baseball team is now finishing its sixth official season in the city, although the team did exist in an unofficial capacity for a … Read More

Reverse-Reverse Culture “Shock”: Politics and Language

Written by Caleb Sekeres. When I first left the United States for Korea in 2008, I told myself that I wanted to travel more. It was not about a job … Read More

“Builders and Brainchilds” Supports Ugandan Primary School

Written by Mary Abura. Akadot is a land of bounty in Uganda interspersed with self-propagating tropical fruit. Though poverty is prevalent, people are joyful despite living off subsistence farming. Akadot … Read More

Tips from an Ex-Expat

Written by Meg Coast. As I sit in Incheon Airport savoring my last few spoonfuls of bibimbap (비빔밥), I flash back half a decade or so to my first fumbling … Read More