Vita Juknevičienė is a professor at Vilnius University who was teaching a summer session at Chonnam University. She discusses her home country of Lithuania, her education and research in the fields of public innovation and administration, and specific topics in e-leadership as well as corruption.

The hospitality industry was one of the hardest hit by the COVID19 pandemic. Now that hotels are getting back on their feet, they rely more than ever on making a greet impression on visitors who are forming new travel experiences. How do they do this? With excellent staff, of course. The executive chef and the converge manager of one of Gwangju’s finest hotels explain their training and job experience, how they entered the industry, and how they deal with different challenges in their roles at the hotel.

As an artist and the office manager of the International Biennial Association, Jen Lee's life and career are based in art. She discusses how she became inspired as an artist, what kind of work she has done including her own comic strip, and how she became involved with the IBA.

In one of the most exciting areas of medical advance, tiny robots can be used to deliver targeted drugs inside the human body. It is possible to guide, activate, and retrieve this microbots, which provides a significant advantage over invasive surgery or non-targeted treatment like chemotherapy. Bobby Aditya Darmawan uses his background in engineering to design, create, and improve these microbots in his PhD studies at Chonnam University.

On May 19th, Doctor Cynthia Maung was interviewed for GFN’s face2face. Dr. Maung had just been awarded the 2022 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights for her work providing health services to displaced persons and migrant workers at the Mae Tao clinic, which she founded in 1988. She has dedicated her life to the treatment of displaced and marginalized persons from Myanmar and Thailand.
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Maung
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Tao_Clinic

Costa Rica is a modern environmental success story in terms of how they have managed and protected their natural assets. Sebastian Benavides Vargas studied environmental management engineering, working with the government and with firms in Costa Rica. However, he became interested in Korea and decided to study at Chonnam University where he is doing a master's degree in Disaster Management. For this episode which first aired on World Environment Day, Sebastian will share some of the success of Costa Rica as well as explain the role that engineering plays in solving these important issues.

“Called by Another Name” is the title of David Lee Dolinger’s memoir of the Gwangju Uprising. It refers to Im Dae-oon, the Korean name he was given when he came to South Korea in 1978 with the Peace Corps. David was in Gwangju during the May 18th Gwangju Uprising, a protest for democracy which ended with a massacre at the hands of elite military forces. However, the 518 Gwangju Uprising was not the end of David’s time in Korea. After being forced out of the Peace Corps, he worked as a university instructor, and during this time participated in the dissident pipeline.

To know more about the interview : Ex-Peace Corps volunteer Dolinger recalls horrors of 1980 massacre in Gwangju - The Korea Times

Sherryl Sambo Ko is a very busy woman. On top of studying a PhD in Education and working as both an educator and a financial planner for a life insurance provider, she is heavily involved in the Filipino community in Gwangju and Korea. She shares her professional perspective on the unfairness of certain visa requirements for education positions, as well as explaining some of the complexities of the relationship Korea and the Philippines have.

To learn more about South Korea's Philippine community: Gwangju Philippine community comes together for Filipino Day (koreatimes.co.kr)