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 inte...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 a...

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 wom...

People from Myanmar and human rights activists have held a pro-democracy demonstration in front of the country’s embassy in Seoul. The protestors gathered in front of the Myanmar Embassy on Feb. 12 to mark Union Day, which commemorates the country’s different territories joining as one nation in 1947. Activists called for the implementation of the Panglong Agreement signed by representatives of...