Weekend Feature: Gwangju Guide online
This weekend’s special feature, focusing on community pages on the web, presents the original version of the Gwangju Guidebook online. Entitled Gwangju Guide: Living in Gwangju, it features a neat, easy-to-access index of information about the city and surrounding area.
GIC has just published the second edition of the Gwangju Guide in print form this year. You can pick up your own copy from GIC. It is free for all GIC members, and only 1,000 won for non-members.
Construction has now begun on a new and improved version of the website, too. In the mean time, the current site is still available and chocked full of current, regularly updated information for new-comers and tourists. The Gwangju Guide is also great for locals, long-termers, old-timers, and “lifers” to learn something new about this amazing town and countryside.
Read more about the Gwangju Guidebook, and keep an eye out for the updated online version on the GIC website here.
Go to the Gwangju Guidebook online here.
Hey, Julian, thanks for the shout out for the guidebook.
You said: “Construction has now begun on the first updated version of the website, too; however, plenty of useful, practical, and concise information remains on the site for the new guests or settlers in the area.”
The online version was first offered in 2010. It was the same info that had been in the first print edition of Gwangju Guide, printed in 2008.
In 2011, GIC updated ALL the information in the online version of the guidebook, before the print version was made an distributed this year (2012). So last year every page of online material was updated and considerably expanded to include more sports and leisure posts. Also, Nana, and now, LeHoa, regularly update the posts when comments are made to correct or expand the information offered in the online version.
Of course, things change fast in Korea, so info gets outdated quickly. Kudos to you for raising awareness about the need to update the guidebook annually.
A special thanks to everyone who updated information in 2011 for the Gwangju Guide online. Those who updated were the staff of GIC since we were unable to recruit other Korean volunteers for this. And, of course, in the Acknowledgments of the print version it mentions the many proofers and editors of the material. All of which was proofed and edited first online, before the print version was crafted.
Thanks, Maria! The wording has been changed a bit for clarification 🙂