Managerial Regulations for Gwangju Blog

Thank you for visiting Gwangju Blog. For amicable operation of the blog, we follow the policies and regulations stated below.

■ Purpose of Gwangju Blog

Gwangju Blog aims to provide various information about life and culture in Gwangju Metropolitan City and furthermore to enable interactive communication among bloggers.

■ Posted Subjects

-Talk & Talk

The main theme for our blog is “Gwangju, the City of Light.”

Through our blog, we wish for you to find the yet-to-be-discovered aspects of

We would like to talk about Gwangju with those of you who are interested in the city, who are new to the city and who reside in the city.

Furthermore we’d like to talk about the stories of our lives.

Gwangju has been known as the city of flavorful foods, fashionable people and above all, the city of ‘affection.’ We’d like to have this section of the blog where we share heartful, affectionate stories of human interactions within the city. 

-What's going on

This part of the blog introduces current issues happening and bloggers’ lively, on-scene reports.

-Korean Books

You might have found it difficult to encounter Korean literary works that are translated in English. Therefore, Gwangju Bloggers will provide English information on Korean literature.

-Living in Gwangju

This section of the blog provides practical living tips for people who are foreign to Gwangju.

The tips include information on hospital, lectures on Korean language, schools, housing and entry into/departure from the country.

-Gwangju Local News

Here, we present local Gwangju/South Jeolla news that we deliver daily on GFN 98.7FM.

■ Introduction of the Writing Staff

Gwangju Blog is composed of people with passion for the city.

With the Editor in Chief, the writing staff consists of resident foreigners who love Gwangju and people with available internet access who’d like to participate in the blog.

Once you sign-up as a team-blogger, you are free to participate in Gwangju Blog as a writing staff.

■ Comment/Track-Back Policy

Gwangju Blog is opened to those of you who’d like to post comments/track-backs anonymously.

Gwangju Blog aims to achieve the spirit of Web 2.0 – openness, sharing and participation, in order to provide an interactive channel among the users. 

Written content that is deemed inappropriate for Gwangju Blog – unnecessary profanities, violations of an individual’s privacy and postings for advertisement purposes, will be deleted.

If you’d like to post advertisement of any sorts, please e-mail gwangjublog@hotmail.com.

Your respect for the readers of Gwangju Blog will be much appreciated.

■ Copyright Policy

Gwangju Blog respects Creative Commons 2.0 Policy. Distribution and display of content is only available under such terms;

- If the content from Gwangju Blog is re-distributed, then the author of said content and Gwangju Blog must be credited.

- Gwangju Blog is a non-profit website. Use of its contents for profit-making is prohibited.

- Content from Gwangju Blog is not to be deviated.

■ Visitor’s Private Information Policy

Users can visit Gwangju Blog and access written content without providing private information.

Gwangju Blog’s server automatically recognizes the information sent from user’s browser.

Such server log holds information on an user’s web request, an address of visited website, a protocol address, a pattern of browser/language, date and time for the visit/posing and cookie.

Such collected data will be used to advance blog activities among users.

Gwangju Blog gathers and saves information on user and user’s computer by an internet form called ‘cookie.’ Cookie is a small-scaled file consisted of characters, which enables the saving of a browser on user’s computer on one’s first visit to the website.

■ Service Information

Any feedbacks/inquiries are welcomed for the advancement of Gwangju Blog.

We will be putting our utmost efforts at all times for amicable communication between bloggers and readers.

Your opinions can reach us via visitor’s comment, track-back and email(gwangjublog@hotmail.com).

Managerial policies states above can be altered for blog’s betterment. We will make a public announcement when a change on our policy is made.

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Thank you for visiting Gwangju Blog.

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