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By Kim Hillel Yunkyoung

gwangjunewsgic.com Gwangju News, December 2022 Winter in Damyang’s Bamboo Forest

Hope we have another big snow!

Kim Hillel Yunkyoung is a priest of the Anglican Church here in Gwangju and also a portrait photographer. More of his photographs can be found at Instagram @hillelkim.

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Along with so many in the nation and beyond, we were shocked to hear of the Halloween weekend crowd crush that took so many lives in Seoul's Itaewon district. Gwangju and the Gwangju News mourn the loss of the 158 precious lives that perished in the incident and send our condolences to the families and friends who lost loved ones. We hope for the speedy and complete recovery of all those harmed in the incident and hope that sufficient measures will be taken so that such a calamity shall never happen again.