Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
On Sunday, March 11, the GIC hosted a dance workshop entitled “Interpretive Dance Does not Exist… Or does it?” Angie Hartley, a dancer who currently works as an English teacher with the EPIK program here in Gwangju, led the participants through a variety of movement-based exercises.
What does it mean to pack up and come to a country without having to know the language? Distance from a community is never part of a plan. Perhaps it is the adventure of it all that wins in the end; the desire to radically transform our realities into something new and exciting, something that might be uncomfortable but promises growth in the end.
Gangjeong is often served during important events such as weddings, ancestral rites and Lunar New Year (Seollal). It is covered with white sesame, black sesame, white soybean flour and black soybean flour. Gangjeong is a Korean traditional confectionery popular with women as a low-calorie snack.
Korea is famous for its many and varied festivals, and spring is the perfect time to go festival hopping, as the number of events taking place around the country reaches its peak at this time of year.
Jeju Island, the idyllic getaway for Korean honeymooners and nature-loving tourists alike, has been at the center of a controversial conflict which has heightened in intensity, and the voices involved are as varied as the opinions on the issue itself.
Gwangju is home to a large variety of bands, from shoegaze to electroclash, and punk is not excluded from the mix.
After failing his college entrance exams, Kim Chan Yang began pursuing alternative methods to achieve his dream of becoming an actor and performer and this is when he decided to enter one of the highest-rated television shows in the country and this gamble seems to have paid off.
What kind of a person purposely undergoes the knife for the sake of beauty? Are these people bold, courageous and rational? Or rather, does it show an underlying problem in Korean society?