Gwangju City News

From the Gwangju Metropolitan City Press Release (http://gwangju.go.kr)

Gwangju Metropolitan City held its Kimchi and Rice Ball Outing Event at the Sangsang Madang area of the Asia Culture Center on June 4.

This event was held with the 5th Gwangju Agricultural Life and Food Safety Division to inform citizens of the development direction of Gwangju rice balls, a food that symbolizes the “sharing and solidarity spirit” of the 29th Gwangju World Kimchi Festival and the May 18th Democratization Movement. The May 18 Commemorative Foundation and Gwangju Design Promotion Institute jointly participated in the project. Kimchi Contest and May Mothers conducted demonstrations, experience events, and various cultural performances which were well received by participants.

Furthermore, the event promoted the various flavors of kimchi through the provision of yeolmu kimchi, a representative kimchi of summer. What is more, the 29th Gwangju World Kimchi Festival (October 20–22), and the 2022 Bitgoeul Love Sharing Kimchi Festival (November 22 –December 11), will also be held.

The city of Gwangju expects such events to further expand the popularization of Gwangju rice balls.

Gwangju Metropolitan City announced that the 2022 Art Picnic, a cultural and art excursion event, will open on June 11 in many places around the city.

The “Art Picnic” has been in the spotlight as a family-oriented cultural and artistic experience program for citizens, but over the past two years, citizens have not been able to enjoy the program due to online and offline parallel promotions as a result of Covid-19 distancing.

The 2022 Art Picnic is an on-site program and will be held every Saturday from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. (4 p.m. – 8 p.m. in summer) until November.

In particular, the program plans to provide a richer program centering on the Gwangju National Museum, which is full of living history and artistic resources.

The Art Picnic at Gwangju National Museum includes an art camp for toddlers, a children’s art camp, a family art camp, a family play camp, an imagination playground, an art stage, a forest fairy tale camp, and a creator camp. Healing programs and museum-related programs will also be introduced.

The self-governing district Art Picnic is operated as a differentiated program according to the characteristics of each autonomous district.

The Dong-gu Art Picnic, held at Haneul Park of the Asia Culture Center, offers a “small Asian festival” with the main concept of experiencing Asian culture through events entitled Sweet Asia, Made in Asia, and Dancing Asia.

The Seo-gu Art Picnic, held at Energy Park (Sangmu Park), operates a convergence experience program that combines cultural arts and energy technology through events centered on experiencing new energy technologies, energy meets art, and super energy power.

The Nam-gu Art Picnic, held at Bitgoeul Rural Theme Park, is a program that combines kite-flying and art experiences through a Korean kite painting experience, making character and traditional pattern kites, and a kite-flying experience.

The Buk-gu Art Picnic, held at Ilgok Neighborhood Park, operates under the concept of a family healing experience which includes making a natural mask pack and multi-balm, making a natural hair loss prevention shampoo for fathers, nail art for moms, and summer body painting.

The Gwangsan-gu Art Picnic, held at Ssangam Park, provides beneficial experiences such as Seonbi’s summer vacation, a Seonbi play experience, and a global traditional play experience.

in the Humanities City project, which includes things such as proposing opinions on the Humanities City project by excavating and recording humanities resources in unknown neighborhoods. Residents will directly participate in and evaluate the humanities policy of Donggu and become active participants in Dong-gu's humanities city policy.

The recruitment period is from June 27 to July 1, and participating members will be given benefits such as participation in a humanities competency strengthening workshop, information on Donggu's humanities city activities such as the College of Humanities and Humanities Center programs, and preferential participation.

To apply, would-be recruits can download the application form from the Dong-gu website and apply by e-mail (argos3@korea.kr), and the selected members will be announced in July.

Gwangju Dong-gu Chairman Im Taek announced that Dong-gu will recruit members of the “Donggu Humanities Together” group until July 1, where Dong-gu residents will lead humanities activities and become participants in humanities policy.

The target audience for recruitment is about 30 residents living in Dong-gu, office workers located in Dong-gu, and humanities activists active in Dong-gu.

The “Dong-gu Humanities Together” group aims to work as a small team and actively participate