Expats in Gwangju are being encouraged to join in a collaborative art project to show the city throughout 2012.The brainchild of 9-year Gwangju resident Joe Wabe, Gwangju 365 Picture Challenge is an online photo diary that will chart a year in the city one picture at the time. Wabe is also the man behind Art Elemento, a magazine about creative expats in Gwangju.“Through the magazine I was able to start showing the community and Korea all the talented foreigners that we have in this area and to b

Come Together is a series introducing associations and clubs that expats can get involved in. This week, Expat Living spoke to Ham Eun-jou of Mannam Volunteer Association. ― Ed.■ Name of Club: Mannam Volunteer Association (Mannam Volunteer Association ― International Division is specifically for expatriates in South Korea) or just “Mannam.”■ Location(s): There are several locations in South Korea including Seoul and Daegu, as well as locations around the world.■ Number of members: We have 6,000

You might have a happy home with your cat or dog, but what happens when you need to go away for a few days?Many expats buy pets or rescue abandoned animals while they are here ― but it raises the thorny issue of what to do when that much-needed holiday rolls around. Shelters are available, but many are expensive and some pet owners distrust them or would simply prefer to have their pets looked after.Enter the Pet Sitting Network, a Facebook group putting potential pet-sitters in touch with owner

The number of US pedestrians who have been killed or badly injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years, according to a study published Tuesday. An attendee listens to music wearing House of Marley, LLC headphones at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada

WASHINGTON (AP) — Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first "mama" or "dada."Florida scientists di

CAIRO (AFP) ― Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday.The rare find was made accidentally by a team from Switzerland’s Basel University headed by Elena Pauline-Grothe and Susanne Bickel in Karnak, near Luxor in Upper Egypt, the minister told the media in Cairo.The woman, Nehmes Bastet, was a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dyna

“Olje Classics,” a book series consisting of four local and Western classics. (Olje)‘Olje Classics’ sold out one day after hitting bookstore shelvesA book series consisting of four local and Western classics, published at a low-price to provide the texts to the less fortunate, sold out just one day after hitting the shelves last week.Provided by non-profit corporation Olje, the four-volume series in Korean titled “Olje Classics” includes Plato’s “The Republic,” Aristotle’s “Politics,” “Analects

Philippe Thiebault, who studied Korean philosophy in Korea for the past three decades, died of pneumonia and other complications on Saturday. He was 67. Thiebault, a visiting professor at Seoul’s Sejong University, is especially recognized here for translating “Mongmin Simseo” ― written by Jeong Yak-yong (1762-1836), one of the leading scholars in the late Joseon Dynasty ― into French in 2007. The book, whose title means “Admonitions on Governing the People,” describes the fundamental principles

Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of ``totally drug-resistant tuberculosis,'' a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. (MCT)It's not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy

SYDNEY, Jan 16, 2012 (AFP) - Researchers in Australia on Monday called for health warnings on caffeine-loaded energy drinks following a spike in the number of people reporting medical problems after drinking them.Health professionals from the University of Sydney's Medical School and the New South W

New director plans to enhance publicity of artKim Hong-hee, former head of Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, was appointed the director of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) last week. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Wednesday that Kim would begin her two-year term the following day. Kim was tentatively decided on as the new head of SeMA in December last year. Kim studied French literature at Ewha Womans University, earned an M.A. in Western art history at Concordia University in Canada and a Ph.D.

NEW YORK (AP) ― In the end, “Porgy and Bess’’ didn’t need anyone coming to its rescue after all.A gorgeous version of the American stage classic opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Thursday for the first time in more than three decades with plenty of hand-wringing that this updated version led by director Diane Paulus and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was messing with a Gershwin masterpiece.Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Paulus and Parks have protected and cared for this th