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Asian Culture Complex
This complex, in the old Provincial Hall overlooking the May 18th Democratic Plaza, features art displays and cultural performances from around Asia. Local bands let rip in the small park outside on warm weekends.
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Gwangju Art Museum
The Gwangju Art Museum, part of an ugly art plaza with concert and performance halls, displays highlights from the avant-garde Gwangju Biennale. Thought-provoking exhibits could include a portrait of the back of someone's head, a cow made of leather or a landscape inside a suitcase.
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Gwangju Folk Museum
From the Gwangju National Museum take a 15-minute walk through a tunnel under the expressway to Gwangju Folk Museum. It uses dioramas, models, sound effects, videos and more to show off Jeollanam-do's traditional culture, from music to medicine, from toys to armour. Historical photographs at the end reveal how quickly Koreans have morphed from feudal farmers to 21st century whiz kids.
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Gwangju National Museum
The highlight of the Gwangju National Museum to the north of the city is its fine collection of perfectly preserved Chinese ceramics that were discovered in 1975 inside a 14th-century shipwreck. The display ranges from elegant, classical vases to homey mortars and pestles. Other galleries show Joseon and Buddhist art, two Korean art genres neglected by Western art critics.
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May 18th National Cemetery
This sombre memorial park, which opened in 1997, contains a simple burial site for 325 civilian casualties of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. What the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre is to China, the 1980 Gwangju Massacre is to South Korea, a mass demonstration and protest against an authoritarian regime with deadly consequences that became an icon for its time.
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Mudeung Stadium
Catch the local Kia Tigers baseball team in action at Mudeung Stadium near the bus terminals, and spot the differences with the American game. Many buses, including 1 and 23, can drop you there. Matches start at or .
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Mudeungsan Provincial Park
Overlooking Gwangju, Mudeungsan Provincial Park is a gorgeous green mountain range with a spider's web of well-signed trails leading to the peak, Cheonwangbong (1187m).
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Uijae Misulgwan
About 1km (a 30-minute walk) from the bus stop, in the Mudeungsan Provincial Park is Uijae Misulgwan, a surprisingly chic art gallery that displays landscape, flower and bird paintings by Heo Baek-ryeon (1891-1977), whose pen name was Uijae. His modern-style house is in an idyllic spot, a five-minute walk away on the other side of the path.
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