From the Editor

July 2022, Issue 245 Published: July 1, 2022

Cover

Dr. Cynthia Maung Photo courtesy of May 18 Memorial Foundation

THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Publisher Dr. Shin Gyonggu Editor-in-Chief Dr. David E. Shaffer Managing Editor William Urbanski Chief Copy Editor Isaiah Winters Layout Editor Karina Prananto Photographer Kim Hillel Yunkyoung Online Editor Karina Prananto

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For volunteering and article submission inquiries, please contact the editor at gwangjunews@gic.or.kr. It’s July, it’s already our seventh issue of the Gwangju News for 2022, and it’s hard to believe that the year is already half over. July signals the beginning of warm and sunny summer weather, school vacations, and vacation trips, which are now more easily possible with the abating of Covid. So, whether you are relaxing in a long chair on a sandy beach or in an armchair in the air-conditioned comfort of your home, we provide you with a new issue of the Gwangju News for your July reading. Our cover feature for this issue is about Dr. Cynthia Maung, recipient of the 2022 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights for her work in providing medical services to the displaced and migrant workers from her clinic on the Thailand-Myanmar border. We also bring you an interview with the four main speakers at the May 18 Education Forum 2022, which was recently held in Gwangju: Maria Filipsson, Jonas Bolander, Joakim Östling, and Sunjoon Hwang. Our third feature for this month is on the legacy of Tim Warnberg, which includes his help in aiding wounded civilians during the May 18 Uprising. I personally remember Tim from his Peace Corps days here in Gwangju some 42 years ago. David Dolinger was also a Peace Corps member in Gwangju during the May 18 Uprising (our June cover feature). This month we bring you a review of his just-off-the-press memoir of May 18, Called by Another Name. In this July issue, we take you to a Gwangju refill station, OceanCloud. No, it’s nothing like a gas station – it’s much more eco-friendly. We also take you to Gwangju’s CrossFit center – no, it’s not a gym but a “box.” We bring you a restaurant review of the scrumptious Tiramitous. And we take you to the old Gwangju Prison to bring you “poetry” from the punishment room. Then we take you to Yeocheon, where a former resident laments the vanishing of their hometown. Pyroprocessing to solve the nuclear waste problem? We bring you the lowdown in our Environment column. The largest English teachers’ association in Asia? We bring you the scoop on AsiaTEFL.

And we bring you much more: Gwangju city news, Korean study, the latest in music, a crossword puzzle, a comic, and photography galore! As always (though distancing guidelines have been relaxed), stay Covid smart, stay Covid safe, be Covid protected, and enjoy the Gwangju News.

David E. Shaffer Editor-in-Chief Gwangju News