For many of us we come to Korea knowing very little about the country, the city we will live in, the people, the culture or the language. We stumble around and slowly learn what we need to know from other expats, Korean friends or co-workers over the first few months of our time here. Effective but slow and often riddled with embarrassing cultural and linguistic mess ups.

Gwangjublog is trying to help make the transition into life as an expat in Gwangju a great deal easier by sharing information that people need. This is when we ask for the help of both the foreign and Korean communities to assist in this project by adding what you think new expats, seasoned veterans or even our Korean readers need to know to make the best out of the time spent in Gwangju.

Perhaps you know a great restaurant, you have had an experience that made you appreciate your tenure in Korea, maybe you know of an upcoming event or you learned some important phrases that make daily interactions easier within Korea. If you do, please share it with us by clicking on the "write" button located on the upper right corner and register as a contributor.

Topics can be anything as long as it relates to the Gwangju experience. The length of the articles should be a page to a page and a half. We would love it if you could attach pictures to make the articles a bit more visual. Even if you feel like you don't want to write you could simply post photos that you would like to share with our expat and Korean readers.

Please take the time to register and contribute in any way you would like.