Photo of the Month – October 2026
Echoes of Ancient Korea A Korean Buddhist temple chime hangs beneath the ornate eaves, carrying centuries of tradition beneath the endless sky. Its graceful form reflects a quiet harmony between … Read More
Special City News – October 2026
The Yeosu-Suncheon 10.19 Incident Remembered A joint memorial ceremony for the 78th anniversary of the Yeosu-Suncheon 10.19 Incident will be held in Suncheon on October 19. In September, the Jeonnam-Gwangju … Read More
Hangeul: Korea’s Alphabet, Designed for All
By David Shaffer || For anyone who has recently arrived in Korea, the Korean alphabet, Hangeul (한글), can seem at once familiar and mysterious. The letters are unlike the Roman … Read More
Romanizing Hangeul: Towards a System Korean Speakers Can Read Back
By Shin Gyeonggu || Most visitors meet the Korean language first through Roman letters: on road signs, subway maps, and bus stops. How we write Korean in the Latin alphabet … Read More
From Gwangju to Bangkok: Reflections on Peace Festival Week 2026 at Mahidol University
By Shin Gyonggu || A Regional Hub for Human Rights Education Mahidol University, founded in 1888, is one of Thailand’s leading research universities. It is internationally recognized for its strengths … Read More
Do Bullies Have Human Rights? What Teach You a Lesson Gets Us Talking About
By Luis Andrés Netflix’s recent Korean series Teach You a Lesson (참교육) has attracted attention with a premise that is simultaneously interesting, uncomfortable, and perhaps deliberately excessive: What if someone … Read More
Mysterious Mahan: Visiting the Naju National Museum
By Don Baker || When I lived in Gwangju in the early 1970s, people who knew I was interested in Korean history would tell me that from about 2,000 years … Read More
Dangun: Son of Heaven, Guardian of the Korean Peninsula
By Murdock O’Mooney || One of the first mythological tales I heard when I arrived in Korea in 2009 was the legend of Dangun. The way I remembered it, a … Read More