The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch will host a talk on Nov. 22 on the history and recent developments in Korea’s transport system.Andy Tebay and Nikola Medimorec, writers for Kojects, a website about public transport and urban development in Korea, will take the audience through how public transport developed from the first trams in Seoul to today’s subway systems.The two will discuss Seoul’s tram system, which expanded during the Japanese colonial period but was closed in the 1960s, and the

The Irish Association of Korea will host a Remembrance Day event Saturday to remember the soldiers who fought in the Korean War, while also touching on the history of the Irish on the peninsula“Half a World Away” will take guests to the Irish war memorials in the National War Memorial of Korea and at Happy Valley, a battle site of the Korean War, with guidance from Andrew Salmon, a local journalist who has written books on the Korean War.“We’ve also flown in a gentleman called James Dorney, an a

Seoul Players is holding its annual 10 Minute Play Festival for two weekends, starting Saturday.In its sixth year, the competition received 200 play script submissions, from which Seoul Players chose 16 to be staged in competition.The submitted plays were of any genre, were not performed before and have a maximum running time of 10 minutes. Submissions came from Korea and abroad. Local actors and directors then formed teams to give the plays their debut performances. More than 40 actors are invo

The Gwangju International Center is offering new cultural classes this month, including a course in basic Arabic reading.Starting Nov. 23, the course will run Wednesday and Friday mornings, for four weeks, covering the basics of the alphabet and moving on to reading sentences.The center will also host a GIC Talk on deconstructing the US presidential election this Saturday from 3 p.m. by Steven Ward, assistant professor of political science at Chosun University. Additionally, a one-day class on d

Seoul Global Center is recruiting new businesses for its startup incubation offices in Jongno and Coex.The center provides free office space to new businesses to encourage entrepreneurship. Four spaces in a shared office are available in the Seoul Global Center building in Jongno, and two individual small offices are available in the Gangnam Global Business Center at Coex, southern Seoul.Successful applicants will be able to use the office space for six months, from Jan. 2 to June 30.To qualify,