Meeting Robert Goodland: The Brown Rice Brit
Gwangju News had a rare opportunity to sit down with Robert Goodland, former environmental advisor to the World Bank for 23 years.
Category: Features
Mitsubishi Grandmothers
This is the story of Yang Kum-deok, one of many Korean middle-schoolers taken during the 1940s to work in the Mitsubishi factories in Japan. What was presented to be the opportunity of a lifetime soon tragically turned into a living nightmare for her and many others, in which the battle for justice still rages on to this day.
In Memory: Prof. Shin Sangsoon (1922-2011)
Way back in the 1950s and 1960s, Professor Shin had the courage or the audacity, if you will, to teach English through English. He didn’t mind ending up as the laughing stock of his English-teaching colleagues on campus. He didn’t fear at all to go where none of them had dared to go before.
Meet the Mayor of Gwangju
Gwangju’s mayor, Kang Un-tae, who was elected in 2010 and will serve until 2014, shares his experience and network from previous elected positions as mayor of Suncheon (‘89-‘90), mayor of Gwangju (‘94-‘95), minister of Internal Affairs (’97), and as a member of the National Assembly (’00 and ’08).
Dave Shaffer: Four Decades in Gwangju
Dr. David Shaffer provides answers and insight about teaching English in the Gwangju News monthly column “Letters to KOTESOL.”
Andre Fisher (Part 2) – Lessons for All
Every foreigner fears accidentally breaking local law and ending up on an episode of Locked Up Abroad.
Andre Fisher (Part 1) – Two Years for Theft
In the early hours of Nov. 19, 2010, Pvt. Andre M. Fisher of the U.S. Army was outside a club in Seoul. Details of that evening differ from there.