This is a series introducing associations and clubs that expats can get involved in. This week, Expat Living spoke to Maria Lisak of Gwangju Artist Collective ― Ed.•Name of Club: Gwangju Artist Collective•Location: Gwangju•Number of members: 101•Started: 2009Who is it for? Gwangju Artist Collective is a multicultural artist community for Gwangju and Jeolla. Originating in 2009 from a Global Villag

English-language cartoonist group Polar Bear Comix will be making their first foray into Comic World Busan at the Haeundae Convention Center on July 9. The cartoonists plan to meet some new fans, and will sell comic books, mini comic-books and merchandise.The outing has been organized by English teacher Joseph Hewitt, who has been in Korea since 1998, and has had work featured in Comment is Free a

Hot on the heels of U.S. comic Danny Cho’s stand up shows in Seoul and Busan, a group of overseas comics is due to play Korea next week. Dutch comedian Dider Chabi will host a show on July 8 and 9 as part of East Side Comedy’s Expat Stand Up World Tour.The show will be headlined by Jamaican Ian Edwards, supported by British comic Dharmander Singh and Nitin Mirani, who is based in the United Arab E

Korea proves discs aren’t just for dogs with first pro-standard courseFolks in summers past were happy to toss a disc across the beach on a sunny day. Then along came the more frenetic Frisbee sport, ultimate, which saw disc fanatics team up to compete in championships around the world. Now, disc golf is a more genteel craze steadily gliding its way across Korea. “One of the things that I really l

There will be no more professional basketball games in Daegu from next season as top division team Daegu Orions will leave the city for Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, according to the league governing body.The Orions, based in Daegu since the start of the Korean Basketball League in 1997, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Gyeonggi Province city to move their home and become the Goyang

Samsung denies involvement in bidding process  CJ Group on Tuesday was selected as the preferred bidder in the controversial race for acquiring a sizeable stake in logistics company Korea Express.  If all goes smoothly, the food-to-entertainment conglomerate will be on its way to achieving its long-term goal of creating Asia’s largest logistics company by 2015. Korea Express is likely to fetch up

Gina RinehartGina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, is also projected to become the wealthiest person in the world, the Telegraph reported.With her fortune doubling to more than $10.8 billion in the past year due to a commodities boom, her asset value will soon surpass wealthy figures such as Carlos Slim, the Mexican magnate worth $73 billion and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who is worth $56

 A top Russian astronomer predicted Monday humanity will be able to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades.Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, said 10 percent of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth according to reports by the Interfax news agency and Reuters.  (MCT)If water can be found there, the

(MCT)Indian parents’ preference for sons has led to inhumane sex change operations on young girls, the Telegraph reported. Doctors in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, are accused of conducting sex change operations on 300 girls, receiving almost $3,200 for each operation. The doctors insist that only girls with genital abnormalities or children with both male and female sexual characteristics were subject