That Other Creepy Gwangju Hospital
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters Gwangju is home to interesting eyesores of various sizes and vintages. Among them, few are larger, older, and have a better story to tell … Read More
Category: Lost in Gwangju/Honam
Mudeung Park Land: The Little Amusement Park That Couldn’t
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters If you’ve ever taken Gwangju’s pleasant ski lift or acrophobia-inspiring monorail, then you might have noticed a derelict clutch of buildings nestled along … Read More
Gwangju’s Orphaned Art
Written and photographed by Ryan Berkebile As I stroll through a residential street in downtown Gwangju, I notice someone’s unfinished painting of a motorcycle. One tire has been painted in, … Read More
Strange Bedfellows at Punghyang Inn
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters Stagnating somewhere in Gwangju’s Punghyang-dong is a time-warped dormitory with an odd twist. From the outside, the abandoned red brick inn with white-trimmed windows … Read More
The Yang-dong Bookmaker’s House
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters Gwangju’s Yang-dong neighborhood is a lot like a time capsule. The market there provides a multisensory trip down memory lane (especially where they … Read More
Inside Honam University’s Ssangchon Campus
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters If you’ve recently been to the immigration office in Gwangju’s Ssangchon-dong, then you may have had a moment (or if the clerks were … Read More
Death of the Doctor’s Hanok
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters In the decades-long scramble to modernize, much of South Korea’s recent past has been razed with incredible haste. Today, the bulldozing of history … Read More
Sites of Horror and History Along 5.18 Road
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters The elderly in South Korea can be a law unto themselves. That thought dawned on me when I happened upon a small band of … Read More