Ex-PM Kim accepts offer to chair committee campaigning for Austrian nurses for Nobel prize
Social affairsAug 17, 2017
Former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik has agreed to chair a government-civilian committee aimed at nominating two Austrian nurses who spent 40 years as voluntary nurses for South Korean leprosy patients on a remote island for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Catholic priest said Thursday. Rev. Franciscus Kim Yeon-jun, who has been working to promote the awareness of the selfless service of the two nurses,...