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Now is no time to add pressure on businesses: top executives
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CJ CheilJedang to spur overseas growth with new Hungary, US plants
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Seoul to host winter festival from Dec. 13
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Blackpink's solo journeys: Complementary paths, not competition
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Nationwide rail disruptions feared as union plans strike from Dec. 5
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Korean Air offers special flights for mileage users
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N. Korea, Russia court softer image: From animal diplomacy to tourism
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Jennie, Lisa invited to Coachella as solo acts
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Smugglers caught disguising 230 tons of Chinese black beans as diesel exhaust fluid
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Russia sent 'anti-air' missiles to Pyongyang, Yoon's aide says
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Mini-Olympics for disabled people
International volunteers are set to hold a mini-Olympics with disabled people on March 17. The sports event is to be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the House of Hope center located near Seoul’s Hwagok Subway Station. The center is home to mentally disabled people aged from 7 to about 30 years old. Around 35 helpers are set to join the event organized by Mannam International volunteers that will include a K-pop team performance and games such as mini basketball. For more information or to registe
March 14, 2012
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Biking the Balkans to give N.K. kids bread
Four Americans are set to bike 5,000 kilometers through the Balkans to raise cash for North Korean kids. Andrew Godlewski, Suzanne Heibel, Stephen Sessions and Katie Tibbetts met while teaching English in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, and are now planning a 3-month cycling trip through Eastern Europe to help fund bakeries that feed children in North Korea.The four aim to cycle in a giant loop from Turkey though 13 countries in a bid to raise $10,000 in sponsorship for the charity Love North Korean
March 14, 2012
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CLASH brings cash for single moms
A charity concert in Seoul has raised almost 2 million won to help support Korean unwed mothers and their children.Around 250 people attended the CLASH concert in Hongdae’s Freebird club on March 10 to enjoy rock and hip-hop artists from the expat and Korean music scene. More than 20 performers came together for the charity night under the banner of “Two Worlds Collide for the Greater Good.”The money raised will go toward Korean Unwed Mothers and Family Association’s work to help single and unma
March 14, 2012
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Bowling for orphans in Daegu
A bowling day will be held for charity in Daegu on March 10.People are gathering to bowl at an alley near the city’s Seomun Market in aid of Korean orphans. A minimum 10,000 won donation is requested from all bowlers at the game to run from 1:30-4:30 p.m., with funds raised going to the Korean Kids and Orphanage Outreach Mission. KKOOM non-profit organization helps to foster links between international volunteers and orphanages in Korea and also sponsors kids’ education.The benefit event is bein
March 7, 2012
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Comics to help cultural understanding
A comic has been published to promote cultural diversity to kids in Korea. The book titled “Hello! Global Citizens” aims to teach children about peace, human rights and sustainable development. UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding created the educational comic aimed to help elementary and high school students overcome cultural differences. Thirteen artists helped bring the different stories to life and 6 Southeast Asian and Korean folktales were depicted for an
March 7, 2012
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Celebrating women in Seoul
An International Women’s Day celebration in Seoul is set to focus on women in the sciences.The event at Seoul Women’s Plaza on March 8 is themed “Connecting girls, inspiring futures.”Seoul International Women’s Association is organizing the celebration of women’s achievements in the sciences, engineering and technology. The event is open to everyone, and will run from 6-9 p.m. and costs 30,000 won, or 15,000 won for students.International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year, with tho
March 7, 2012
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Helpers set for eco village vineyard
A group of volunteers will help out at a Korean eco village this weekend.They will work at the Handemy Eco Village in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, from March 9-11. The small settlement is made up of 25 households at the foot of Sobaek Mountain, 2 1/2 hours from Seoul. The villagers run an alternative elementary school, as well as organic farms from which they get their food. The village also has a learning center where city students can experience rural village life.About 15 WWOOF Korea
March 7, 2012
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Long fight for asylum seekers’ rights
While South Korea is slamming China’s treatment of North Korean refugees, rights workers are calling for more help for international asylum seekers struggling to survive here. A new law has been set to help the growing number of people seeking refugee status in South Korea, but more support is still needed, refugee rights group NANCEN has said. The total number of people from countries other than North Korea seeking asylum here reached 3,534 last September, according to the Korea Immigration Ser
March 7, 2012
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Bowling for orphans
A bowling day will be held for charity in Daegu on March 10.People are gathering to bowl at an alley near the city’s Seomun Market in aid of Korean orphans. A minimum 10,000 won donation is requested from all bowlers at the game to run from 1:30-4:30 p.m., with funds raised going to the Korean Kids and Orphanage Outreach Mission. KKOOM non-profit organization helps to foster links between international volunteers and orphanages in Korea and also sponsors kids’ education.The benefit event is bein
March 7, 2012
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Koreans help mountain kids in Nepal
A group of South Korean volunteers has traveled to Nepal to help people living in remote mountain communities there. It was the first trip to Nepal for all five volunteers, who paid for their own transportation, living costs and other expenses.They traveled first from Katmandu to a small village named Bimbad in the Bagmati area of Nepal.To reach the village of about 200 people living in about 27 households, they traveled for about seven hours in a jeep and three hours of trekking to the southeas
Feb. 29, 2012
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Time to cook for orphanage books
An international cooking contest is being held to help raise money to donate English books to a Korean orphanage. The culinary competition in Chuncheon will be held on March 10. The event to run from 12 p.m. at Chuncheon Youth Center will see budding chefs from different countries serve up international cuisine. Entrants should pay a 10,000 won entry fee by March 3 to take part, and be ready to prepare 1.5 portions of their dish for judges to taste.Competitors can make either savory or desert di
Feb. 29, 2012
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Play reading celebrating women in Seoul
A play reading on March 3 to celebrate International Women’s Day is set to raise cash for a women’s charity. Contemporary plays about women’s lives around the world will be read from 8-9:30 p.m. at Hankuk University in Seoul. There is no entrance fee to hear the plays set in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Japan, Korea and the U.S., but any donations given will go to a women’s charity. The plays being staged by the L.E.V. Theatre Group of South Korea include “Where the Lies Meet,” “Subibaja (Seesaw),” “S
Feb. 29, 2012
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Gangnam ambassadors’ services sought
Foreigners who love Korea and Gangnam life are being sought to act as an honorary publicity ambassadors for Seoul’s Gangnam area. The voluntary publicity staff are being recruited to promote the area via social networking sites and e-mail to their home countries. Around 100 foreigners living in Korea are being sought for the positions that will run from this month. Officers will write articles about Gangnam once a month, with selected articles being posted on the district office’s website and di
Feb. 29, 2012
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CLASH for KUMFA attracts top acts
Some of the Hongdae music scene’s most-loved acts are to play at night to promote cultural diversity and raise money for single moms in Korea. CLASH aims to unite the Korean and expat communities for charity under the motto “Two worlds collide for the greater good” on March 10. Co-organizer Hannah Kamau said the night aims to bring together two different communities as well as two different musical styles to support the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association. KUMFA advocates for the right
Feb. 29, 2012
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North Korean-American given humanitarian award
A North Korean orphan turned American businessman has been awarded for helping children in his home country and across the globe. Han Sang-man, who helps underprivileged children around the world, received the 2012 Humanitarian of the Year Award from The Southern California Chapter of Sister Cities International. The award, given on Feb. 25, recognizes The Han-Schneider International Children’s Foundation’s work to help orphans in North Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Tanzania.Han himself was an i
Feb. 29, 2012
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Warming help for some of Seoul’s poorest people
People living in a Seoul shantytown are a little warmer this winter thanks to 4,000 coal briquettes delivered to their makeshift homes by volunteers.Around 100 Mannam International volunteers visited Guryong Village, in the otherwise plush Gangnam area to hand out the briquettes following a fire that damaged some of the 1,200 shacks there.Fires caused by energy surges from unregulated electrical generators or gas explosions are a common occurrence in the unauthorized settlement of about 2,500 pe
Feb. 29, 2012
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Time to sing into spring
Camarata Music Company will host its first annual fundraiser “Sing Into Spring” on March 2.CMC is a non-profit organization that provides performance opportunities to international musicians living in Korea.The proceeds from the event will benefit future CMC productions as well as help fund CMC’s outreach vision of establishing a music program for children in local orphanages and low-income areas.“Sing Into Spring” tickets are available for 95,000 won per person.The event will feature performanc
Feb. 22, 2012
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Volunteers to help skaters Saturday
A roller derby in Korea is seeking to recruit more volunteers to help with its events. The ROKD Republic of Korea Roller Derby is looking to “scrimmage” a couple of times a month, having secured private rink space. But Korea’s first and only roller derby league is looking for Korean and international volunteers to help at events as well as referees and more skaters of all nationalities.The women’s flat-track skating group meets regularly at Daegu Manchon Inline Skating Rink. The volunteer led RO
Feb. 22, 2012
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It started with disabled people wanting to take the subway. After a wheelchair-bound man fell to his death on a Seoul subway stairwell in 2001, Park Kyung-seok started campaigning. Other disabled people soon joined him in calling for improvements to public transport to ensure that the chairlift accident at Oido Subway Station was never repeated. Park founded Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination and launched the high-profile “Right to Move” campaign. But before their campaig
Feb. 22, 2012
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Korea’s disabled demand better deal
For the 2.5 million people registered as disabled in Korea, daily life can be a constant struggle.Employment is hard to find when you are in a wheelchair, education levels among disabled people are low, and even leaving the house can be near impossible for the severely disabled who have nobody around to help.But support group Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination is campaigning to change laws it believes set Korea’s disabled people at a disadvantage.Severely disabled members of SADD held
Feb. 22, 2012