2010 marked the third year since 2007 when the number of foreigners in South Korea broke the 1 million mark -- a remarkable string of firsts announced by the Korean government.In 2007, the Ministry of Justice issued a press release announcing “the generation of 1 million foreigners.” The number included all foreign nationals in Korea, including tourists. A 2009 release on a study the ministry did

A wedding shot from Romin Lee Johnson’s portfolio. (Romin Lee Johnson)Romin Lee Johnson has seen Korea’s wedding photography industry, and he doesn’t like it one bit.He says wedding photos shouldn’t be about staged poses and costume changes for hours on end, all happening days away from the ceremony. Now Johnson, who came with his family in December and has been shooting professionally for six yea

Foreign residents and visiting professors share insights on a range of issuesGot something to say? Gwangju International Center might be in touch.From journalism to jogging your memory, the GIC Talks is an eclectic series of lectures coming mostly from the foreign community. The talks started in 2003, and at the time there were less than 10 people coming. Things began to pick up when the organizer

 Korea’s English-language blogs have increasingly been a useful source of information for expats, providing information that is difficult to find elsewhere and a sense of community.But the vast majority of online content made by Koreans remains inaccessible to English speakers. That gave Nanoomi’s founding editor Cynthia Yoo the idea of setting up a network of bloggers in which Korea’s bloggers co

Expats join 300 artists from 15 countries for Korea’s biggest experimental art festKorea’s biggest experimental arts festival hits Seoul this weekend, spreading its reach ever farther and featuring an impressive array of international and local talent. With 300 artists from 15 countries including Australia, France and Tibet, the award-winning Korea Performance Arts Festival, organized by Korea Per