I liked the September issue of the Chonnam Tribune right from the cover. I think the colors really reflected the upcoming fall time and the comfortable feeling that comes with that. The magazine then further picks up on that when it dives into independent bookstores in the “Reporter’s Sketch” article. The bookstores introduced all emitted a similar feeling of comfort, familiarity, homeliness, and warmth. The Tribune also made sure to tackle some current issues in the last issue. The article on part-time workers rights revealed a problem to me, that before reading the magazine I knew nothing about. This issue, from front to back, introduced a bunch of things that I knew little to nothing about (Maker Scene, Oman-Gihaeng, JNU Toastmaster, Loconomy), which is right on par with what was promised in the Desk Column at the very beginning of the magazine.

By David Jona Richter, Master’s Student, School of Artificial Intelligence