The Asia Culture Center is Gwangju's main cultural landmark, a large contemporary complex of galleries, performance spaces, archives, plazas, and underground halls. It gives the city a national-scale arts institution right in the old downtown.
The building rewards wandering even when you are not aiming for a specific exhibition. Check the programme before you go, but leave time for the public spaces around the complex and the nearby streets of Geumnam-ro and Chungjang-ro.