Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
Gabriela Ramos is a plenary speaker at World Human Rights Cities Forum to be held this October 7–10 in Gwangju. She will be speaking on “Local Governments Building the Post-COVID-19 World: Public Services and HR Challenges.”
Face2face is a one-hour talk show that airs at 7–8 p.m. on GFN every Sunday night.
This month we feature and interview Korea’s only living human cultural asset for fabric dyeing, National Intangible Cultural Asset No. 115, Jung Kwan-chae (정관채). Master Jung’s ancestors long ago settled in Dasi-myeon, a rural area within the Naju city limits south of Gwangju.
Featured at this fall’s Gwangju Design Biennale are the prolific works of actor, writer, lecturer, editor, photographer, and producer Roger Steffens.
Yoon Yeocheol is the Ambassador for International Relations at Gwangju Metropolitan City and has been involved in international relations representing Korea in many capacities. At the World Human Rights Cities Forum, Ambassador Yoon will lead the session on Myanmar.
offers an interview with Choi Hang, GFN’s Program Director (PD) in charge of the Way Back with U program, the new bilingual sensation.
This spring the Gwangju News carried a feature on The Bulldozed Future, a newborn webzine on urban exploration, as an interview with its Seoul-based urban exploring photographer and editor, Ryan Berkebile (March 2021 issue). Since then Ryan has done more exploring and has come out with the second issue of his webzine. His adventures include numerous explorations in the Gwangju area that make it into the zine’s latest issue.
Interview by Arlo Matisz. Photographs by Kim Hillel Yunkyoung. Michael Danagher has worked in Korea in multiple roles, including Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister-Counsellor of the Embassy of Canada. He … Read More
