MANNAM International Running Club pose for a picture on the sidelines of the Marathon for Child Cancer in Seoul on May 6.(Mannam) Expats and Koreans have joined to run a marathon to support children battling cancer. More than 40 members of the MANNAM International Running Club, or MIRC took part in the Marathon for Child Cancer on May 6, with all proceeds collected from the event being donated ...

A second CLASH music event in Seoul aims to unite Korean and expat communities for charity once again. “CLASH ― Two worlds collide for the greater good” was created with the purpose of bringing together not only two different communities, but also two different musical styles. The second edition of the event is being held to provide support to the Nabi (Butterfly) Fund. Created by victims of J...

A rescue dog at the CARE animal shelter in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province (CARE) An animal charity is to take volunteers to help out at an animal shelter this Saturday. Those attending the shelter trip organized by the Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth will meet at 10:30 a.m. at Gangbyeon Subway Station Exit 4. The group will then make the hour-and-a-half bus journey together to the shelter. T...

About 3,000 people enjoyed a Big Fairtrade Breakfast in Seoul this weekend, in a bid to promote fairer prices for food producers in developing countries. The diners enjoyed food at the Gwanggyo gallery by the Cheonggyecheon on May 12, after about 70,000 people visited the Fairtrade picture exhibition which ran from May 7-13. It is the third year that the breakfast event has been held in Korea, ...

Japanese teacher Takamori Takuya is worried about his country’s students, as well as about South Korean kids. “In the last seven years the suicide rate of children in Japan has been steadily increasing,” said Takamori, who founded Japanese children’s NGO Futokoro to help tackle the problem. “The reason the crime rate and suicide rate is so high is because these students don’t value the meaning ...

Crown Princess Mary talks about social inclusion on trip to Seoul She has supported projects to combat prejudice in her own country, and now the Danish Crown Princess has visited unwed mothers and their children in Seoul. Princess Mary took time out of her hectic schedule to visit members of the Korean Unwed Mothers and Family Association during the state visit with her husband Crown Prince Fre...

Sid Kim tells his story at the Axis storytellers event at the Berlin Café & Lounge near Itaewon, Seoul in February.(Rob York/The Korea Herald) A Seoul storytelling event is to raise cash to help migrant workers. The Axis Seoul group is hosting a night true stories, with all proceeds going to support a new program providing medical care for foreign workers here. The initiative is being run in a...

Activist Park No-hae aims to spread peace throughout the world On a recent trip to Pakistan, poet and photographer Park No-hae met a young man who had been shot near the troubled Afghan border. Wondering why a foreigner would be traveling through the conflict-ridden region, the wounded Pakistani local asked him: “Aren’t you afraid of death in this battlefield?” Park No-hae And now, Park has a...

Veterans of the movement to oust Slobodan Milosevic from power now travel the world teaching people how non-violent resistance can undermine dictatorships, including North Korea. One of them, Sinisa Sikman, came to Seoul last week to speak at a workshop on how the principles of non-violent struggle, and specific lessons from Eastern Europe, could be applied to the regime in the North. Sinisa Si...