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Lost in Gwangju
www.gwangjunewsgic.com
August 2020
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Written and photographed by Isaiah Winters
Possibly the largest Jesus statue in Gwangju stands alone in Samgeo-dong.
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otting along Gwangju’s extreme western fringe are the remains of two largely forgotten institutions whose infamous backstories are worth recalling. Located in sleepy Samgeo-dong, the first is a colossal monument to greed, embezzlement, and freewheeling Ponzi schemes, while the second is a dormant reminder of the legal system’s failure to protect minors from
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sexual abuse. Rather than let these local haunts slip into obscurity, this article seeks to reconnect them to the disgraces who once oversaw them with impunity, lest their infamy be forgotten. The idea for this article came about after shooting and researching the former, an overgrown jumble of
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