An animal protection group is looking for people to take a 10-day challenge to help end the stray cat problem in Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province. Volunteers have been catching cats roaming the Yeungnam University area of the city and taking them to be spayed or neutered by the Korean Animal Protection Society. It costs 50,000 won to neuter a male cat and 80,000 to spay a female under the Ca...

A 10k and a 5k race are to be held in Daejeon to raise funds to help sufferers of MS in Korea. The runs will be held along the banks of the Gapcheon River from 1 p.m. on Saturday Nov. 5 with around 150 runners expected to take part. Runners will be charged a 25,000 won entry fee to go toward the Miles for MS charity, which has organized the races along with the Daejeon Diablos running group. A...

A U.K. animal welfare expert has called for more action to protect pets and farm animals in Korea. Paul Littlefair, head of external affairs for British charity the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has been visiting Korea since 1999 and said he has seen many positive changes in the past 12 years. But the RSPCA representative, a graduate in Chinese language with many years...

Prosecution indicts 76, wraps up probe into Busan Savings Bank scandal Prosecutors have indicted Kim Jong-chang, a former top financial regulator, for the breach of a public officials’ ethics law, wrapping up its probe into a failed savings bank in Busan. “A total of 76 have been indicted in connection with our investigation into Busan Mutual Savings Bank, whose financial corruption amounts to ...

North Korea has reportedly been scrambling to shield itself from the fallout of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s death last month, a sign that his demise was a shock to the regime. It has intensified ideological education for young people since Gadhafi was killed in his hometown of Sirte on Oct. 20, about two months after the downfall of his regime that ruled the northern African state for 42 y...