Global Community

AustCham to host breakfast forum

By John Redmond The Australian Chamber of Commerce (AustCham)Korea will host a breakfast forum with guest Alan Timblick, director of the Seoul Global Center, on March 29 at the Seoul Plaza Hotel. Under the theme “Thirty Four Years an Expat,” Timblick will discuss the changing face of Seoul, and the role of the Seoul Global Center in taking globalization to the next level. The forum program is 7:45 a.m. registration, 8:10 a.m. breakfast, 8:30 a.m. chairman introduces Mr. Timblick, 9 a:m. MC invites questions, 9:30 a.m. forum concludes. The cost is 40,000 won for members and 50,000 won for non members, and includes a full western breakfast. Register by contacting exec@austchamkorea.org. Seoul Plaza is a two minute walk from Seoul Station (Lines 1 and 2) exit 6 towards Namdaemun.

Seoul Players Joe Egg will end Sunday

By John Redmond Expat theater group, Seoul Players, will continue its run of the English writer Peter Nichols play “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” through March 27 at Roofers in Itaewon. Starring Jason Stone, Caitlin Kilburn and Stephanie Foster and featuring Valerie Schmitt and Josh Martin, “Joe Egg” is a heartbreaking comedy that centers on a young couple struggling to care for their only child who is severely handicapped daughter with cerebral palsy. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of the parents' lives, and this has taken a heavy toll on their marriage. “’Joe Egg’ will have you laughing, crying, and asking yourself when, if ever, is it kinder to let a person die? And who has the right to decide?” states the press release. Seoul Players is an English-speaking community theater company based in Seoul. It was formed in late 2001 as a non-profit organization by Roman Zolnierczyk, an Australian business executive and keen thespian. The group of (mostly) ex-pats delights in bringing English-language theater to audiences here in Seoul. Performances are

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon talks with multicultural families at a center

Fundraiser to help quake victims

By Charles Coward With the events, images and stories that were spread around the world following the devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on Feb. 22, a group of Kiwis (New Zealanders) working and living in Seoul decided that it was time to send some hope to those back home who are still struggling to come to terms with what has happened. For this reason, the Christchurch Earthquake Fundraiser, an event organized to raise money for The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal will be held at Dicken’s Lounge in Itaewon above Scrooge Pub on Saturday, March 26. In light of the more recent events in Japan after the huge magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the resulting tsunami, the organizers have decided that a third of all the funds raised from the event that night will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society. The money donated will be distributed directly among the affected population of the earthquake and tsunami. The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal was set up by the New Zealand government to help the communities, families and people of the Christchurch and Canter

Korea cricket team to play expats

By John Redmond The ROK National Men's Cricket Team and the ANZIK (Australian and New Zealands) Tigers Cricket Club will play each other on March 27 at Sungkyunkwan University’s Suwon campus. The match is a charity meet-up to help raise funds for the New Zealand Red Cross for the Christchurch earthquake recovery. Both teams are members of the Korea Cricket Association (KCA). The KCA is comprised of two Korean and Pakistani teams; one each from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; the ANZIK Tiger (Australian and New Zealanders); and Broughtons International 11, a mixture of expats. The KCA is part of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) East-Asia Pacific region that includes teams from Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines, Samoa, South Korea, Tonga and Vanuatu. The charity match also coincides with the training schedule for the ROK National Team who, for the first time ever, will participate in an international tournament ― part of the ICC East Asia Pacific Division 2 Trophy to be held in Apia, Samoa between April 4 and 8. The Korean te

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Artists exhibit works at Golmok

By John Redmond A total of 25 artists from seven countries are taking part in a two-part exhibition under way at Gallery Golmok in Haebangchon through April 24. Under the theme “Before the Dawn of Language,” the International Artists Community (IAC) will present an ambitious and exciting exhibition both in diversity of artists and in theme. The theme in particular challenges artists ― including painters, photographers, sculptors, installation artists, performance artists and musicians ― to go back to a time when art was the primary mode of communication for the emerging human species. “In today’s world of mass instant communication of the sublimely trivial, this exhibition’s intention is to reintroduce its audience to art as symbol. Visitors to the exhibition will experience images, sounds and performances that dissolve barriers and open gateways to pure communication as it was ‘Before the Dawn of Language,’” a press release states. The first exhibition, which opened on March 5, will showcase the work of 15 painters, mixed-media artists and photographers from such coun