The Itaewon Global Village Center will be hosting a labor law seminar for people on teaching and miscellaneous professional visas on Friday. Song Jae-ho, a certified public labor attorney at YIO Labor Law Office and a volunteer lawyer at Itaewon GVC, will lead the seminar, tailored for E-2 and E-7 visa holders. The session will cover an introduction to labor-related law in Korea, frequent cases...

Seoul Book Club is hosting an event with Jo Jung-rae, one of Korea’s top-selling writers, on Saturday. Jo is one of Korea’s best-known living writers, having sold 16 million books. His 1970s short story “The Ice Age” is considered an influential work in Korean fiction, but he is best known for his multi-volume historical epics “The Taebaek Mountains,” “Arirang” and “The Han River.” “I’m pretty...

The Royal Asiatic Society will host a talk Tuesday on the Korean War, its outcome and legacy. Titled “The Korean War: Who Won? Who Lost? Who Cares?” the talk will be given by Andrew Salmon, a local journalist and author of two award-winning books on the conflict. In the first half of his presentation, Salmon will sketch out the progress of the war itself and the extensive suffering involved, an...

Yeoksam Global Village Center will offer free advice sessions on Jan. 17 for expats with tax issues. It is a key month for tax affairs as individual income tax returns are drawn up at the beginning of the year. Appointments, which take place on the fifth floor of the Yeoksam 1 Culture Center, are available from 10 a.m. to noon. To book one, contact yeoksam@gangnam.go.kr with your name, national...

Expats in Gwangju are running a gift donation drive to brighten up Christmas for children at local orphanages. The “Adopt-a-Child for Christmas” campaign is now in its seventh year, and the community is seeking donations to top up the money it has raised from its other activities this year. “We’ve been fundraising for the past few months now, the events so far have included a date auction, a ra...

wangju International Center will be holding its annual end of year celebration on Dec. 17. The “Adios 2016” event is an afternoon to look back on the centers activities over the year. The center will also be running a culture tour the same day, with a visit to Hwasun, South Jeolla Province. The tour will take in the area’s UNESCO-listed prehistoric dolmen site, have a Korean meal for lunch and...

British author Helen Oyeyemi, author of “Boy, Snow, Bird,” “Mr. Fox” and “The Icarus Girl” will be talking about her work at the Seoul Book and Culture Club on Sunday. At the event, held in partnership with the British Council, host Barry Welsh will interview Oyemi, with Korean interpretation, before taking questions from the audience. Oyeyemi, who currently lives in Prague, wrote her first nov...

Seoul Players is looking for playwrights with original one-act plays to work with for a May performance. Successful scripts will be put through a workshop with directors and actors in March, enabling writers to see how their story pans out and revise it as needed in the run-up to the performance. Scripts should run 30 minutes to one hour in length, and Seoul Players recommends that writers stic...