Enough with the Coffee Shops Already!
Coffee Shop Overkill Reaches Epidemic Levels in Bongseon-dong Written by William Urbanski. Do you like a nice warm cup of coffee? Yes? Me, too. Do you need one after every … Read More
Tag: gwangju
On the Right Path
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters. Rotting along Gwangju’s extreme western fringe are the remains of two largely forgotten institutions whose infamous backstories are worth recalling. Located in sleepy Samgeo-dong, … Read More
Gwangju Now and Then: An Interview with Robert Grotjohn
Interviewed by by Melline Galani. Robert Grotjohn has spent a considerable number of years living in Gwangju in two different decades – separated by a gap of twenty-five years! These … Read More
Odds and (Dead) Ends: Spring Cleaning Edition
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters. It’s time for a special spring cleaning edition of bizarre leftover photos crowding my desktop. Like in the July 2019 edition of “Odds and … Read More
Fathoming Gwangsan-gu And Its Abandoned Goldmine
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters. The names of Gwangju’s administrative districts are pretty easy to intuit, with each corresponding to a point on a compass: Buk-gu (North District),Nam-gu (South … Read More
Evicting God: The Exodus of Hak-dong’s Condemned Churches
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters. Evictions and buyouts for the sake of redevelopment are all the rage these days. Hak-dong is the latest neighborhood to get the boot on … Read More
Rooftopping in the City of Heights
Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters. “Rooftopping” is a pretty self-explanatory neologism that refers to accessing rooftops, often high ones, within the context of urban exploring. Like hikers scaling a … Read More
Sorting Gwangju’s Cancer Jars: Day 1
The particular hospital where we were had been abandoned for some time, and yet there was an astonishing amount of equipment and documentation remaining inside.