Lenin Raghuvanshi·Oct 1When Recognition Becomes Memory: From Honour to Heritage at Bharat Kala Bhavan, BHUFrom Honour to Heritage: Dedication of my three international human-rights honours — the 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, 2010 Weimar…
InPen With PaperbyYoo Seok·Jun 9Gwangju: When the State Turned Its Guns on CitizensHow one city’s uprising changed Korea’s democracy — and its nightmaresA response icon1A response icon1
Aditya Mishra·Jun 4They Sold a Tank. We Were Inside It.I am standing in front of the 5·18 Democracy Square in Gwangju, South Korea. This photograph was taken in August 2025, when I visited as a…
Word Alchemy Studio·May 18🌸 A Love Story Written in History: Youth of MayThe Emotional Weight of Youth of May
Miroo Kim·Jan 25Deja-vu: 1980s in South Korea and 2026 in the USHistory reminds of names we MUST NOT forget.
Bruno Mariano·Nov 1, 2024Sol Secreto: a impossibilidade do perdão, seja no céu ou no infernoFora de sua terra natal, o cinema sul-coreano costuma ser associado a dois nomes importantes: Park Chan-wook e Bong Joon-ho. O primeiro…
Rick Ayers·Oct 28, 2024Han Kang’s “Human Acts” and the literature of witnessI picked up Han Kang’s 2016 book Human Acts this week, partly because she had just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. But I was not…A response icon1A response icon1
Linden Killam·Dec 11, 2021ARTS 3890 Project 3In keeping with what I had said in previous projects, where the themes were Los Angeles and Minneapolis (places I have lived), the theme…
Rajitha·May 27, 2021Human Acts by Han Kang: To read or not to read?I just completed reading Human Acts by Han Kang, one I started back in February but couldn’t progress and got back to it only in May. The…
Sean Lim·May 18, 2021The Lost Democracy Generation | How a Military Dictator Stole the Country AgainMay 18th rolls around with less fanfare each year, as we move further away from live memories of the bloody Gwangju Uprising. During…
