Volunteers are to visit a Korean shantytown this weekend to clear up trash. Mannam International Volunteers will visit Guryong in southern Seoul to clean up trash in the village and near the river on Saturday. Expats will fill bags of trash and debris to help prevent pollution from washing into the streams this summer. Guryong Village is a settlement located Gangnam, in the shadow of luxury sky...

Guatemalan student in Korea is running to help kids back home Kyung Hee University student Bremelin Romero has always seen education as the key to success, and now she’s set to run the Stockholm Marathon to help people in her home country. The New Hope Foundation is working to teach the principles of justice, historical truth, and participatory democracy to youths living in the area surrounding...

More than 15 artists are set to perform at a charity music night in Seoul this Saturday. The “CLASH” event ― with the tagline “Two worlds collide for the greater good” ― aims to bring together not only the expat and Korean communities, but also two different musical styles, to provide support for victims of sexual violence in Africa. A percentage of the proceeds raised from the event at Freebir...

The anomalous disappearance of neutrons may be explained by their mirror particles in a parallel universe, Italian theoretical physicists claimed. Past experiments showed that the loss rate of some very slow neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of a magnetic field. This left scientists dumbfounded because a neutron, by definition, is a neutral particle. However, a theory by...

A day of events will be held in Seoul on Saturday to raise awareness of the plight of refugees both in Korea and worldwide. The Refugee NGOs’ Network, which consists of some 10 organizations working on refugee protection and rights, is organizing the day along with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and the UNHCR-Korea, to celebrate World Refugee Day and Korea’s upcoming enforcement o...

Applications are now open for a human rights academy program to be held in Korea this summer. The May 18 Academy will run from July 30 ― Aug. 15 in Gwangju. It will provide training for domestic and international civil society activists working for human rights, democracy and peace. The event is organized by the May 18 Memorial Foundation, which was set up in the memory of democracy activists k...

A charity is seeking English-speaking expats to become personal tutors for North Korean refugees. People for Successful Corean Reunification currently has 144 students in need of private teachers. PSCORE was established in 2006 by young North Korean defectors, South Korean university students and foreigners interested in reunifying the Korean Peninsula. It offers support for North Korean refuge...

Expats from around Korea will meet up for a sports tournament in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, this month to benefit African children. The 12-team futsal contest has been organized to raise money for the Purpose for Life Foundation. The organization supports several projects, including improving living conditions for people in the Kenyan community of Ngumbulu. Its most recent activity in Decem...

Finland and Korea are both lauded for producing some of the world’s highest-performing students, but their education systems produce results by very different means. Korean kids endure long school days followed by hours of evening classes, causing the Korean government to ban tutoring after 10 p.m. Meanwhile, Finnish children have the third-shortest schooldays in the OECD and don’t start compuls...

The Samoan community in Korea is preparing to celebrate its golden jubilee, commemorating 50 years of the country’s independence with a charity event in Seoul. Guests are invited to dress in their best Samoan attire or Polynesian-themed clothing. The charity event will be held in Itaewon’s JR pub from 7 p.m. on Saturday. Samoans are celebrating becoming the first South Pacific island to gain in...