Gwangju’s Penguin Village: A Walk Through Time and Art
By Arifa Batool On a bright August morning, I visited Penguin Village, and it turned out to be one of the most unique places I have ever seen. Hidden in … Read More
Friendship Cities: Gwangju and Hiroshima – Japan’s Shared Vision for a More Peaceful and Just World
By Murdock O’ Mooney I first visited Hiroshima, Japan, in the summer of 2025, although I had wanted to go long before that. Having lived in Gwangju and worked at … Read More
Still Not Finished: Subway Line 2 Delays Continue
By Saqib Sharif The prolonged delay of Gwangju Subway Line 2 has become one of the city’s most pressing urban issues, repeatedly disrupting daily life while placing increasing pressure on … Read More
Inside the Gwangju News: Café Connoisseur – Writer Dhivyaa S. P.
This column features each month one of our regular writers for the Gwangju News, allowing our readers to get to know them better. These windows on writers follow an interview … Read More
Korea Immigration and Integration Program (KIIP): A Pathway to Life, Work, and Residency in Korea
By Farrukh Anique The Korean Immigration and Integration Program (KIIP), run by the Immigration Service under the Ministry of Justice, is more than just a language course. It’s Korea’s official … Read More
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Adult Language Acquistion
By Bianca Hill When you look up “second language acquisition,” you often come across studies that discuss childhood language learning and the benefits of growing up bilingual. Today, however, there are hundreds of … Read More
Empathy and Gwangju’s Migrants
By Maddy Miller How It All Began After living in Gwangju for about six years, mostly as a private academy teacher, partly as a language student at Chonnam National University, … Read More
Making Science Simple: A Chocolate Cake that Powers the Future
By Vibhanshu Maurya When my recent research paper, titled “Multilayer Gels with Spatial Arrangement of Functional Nanomaterials,” was published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials (a highly reputed journal in materials science), many news outlets picked … Read More