SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Texas Rangers’ outfielder Choo Shin-soo will donate 110 million won (US$96,111) to a South Korean charity on Thursday, the charity organization said. A ceremony was to be held Thursday morning with Choo and his wife attending to deliver the donation to ChildFund Korea at the group’s headquarters in central Seoul. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics on Tuesday pledged a US$500,000 donation to a U.S. charity organization for veterans and military families. The commitment to the Fisher House Foundation is the latest in a series of donations that the South Korean electronics giant has made in the U.S. for veterans and their families [...]
SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – Yonsei University has revealed that Psy, the international entertainer who will be making a comeback next month, donated 500 million won to Severance Hospital’s children’s ward. With the funds, a ‘Psy Treatment Room’ was created. According to officials at the hospital, the treatment room built with the funds donated by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Ronald McDonald House (CEO Jeffery Jones) has announced that it will host the first ‘Ronald Dog Fashion Show, Walking with us’ at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza on October 2. The recruitment of participants has already started. Various dog-related organizations will be donating their time and services for [...]
SEOUL, Dec 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Son Yeon-jae, a South Korean rhythmic gymnast, donated all the 10 million won prize money that she won in the MBN Women’s Sports Awards held in the evening of December 23 to the Salvation Army Korea. Son said, “I always wanted to give back to society for love and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean singer Kim Jang-hoon will hold a concert next month in Venice, Italy. Kim plans to be on the stage of Fondazione Teatro Goldoni, a renowned 400-year-old theater in Italy, on December 13, as part of his concert tour. The concert in Venice will be followed by the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean people can now conveniently give a donation to a politician they support through their smartphones. The Republic of Korea National Election Commission announced on November 17 that it would launch an application to allow citizens to directly make donations to politicians. The app called the “Smartphone Political Support [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture has installed on November 6 a giant public artwork called “Mr. Gibro” (meaning “to donate” in Korean) at Seoul Plaza in front of the Seoul City Hall in celebration of the opening of the “Art Seoul, Donate Together” event. The artwork, created [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyun Bin, a Korean heartthrob starring in many popular dramas including “My name is Kim Sam-soon” and “Secret Garden,” received a special birthday present from his fans around the world. “HB International,” a world-wide fan club comprised of international fans from Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, decided to [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Donation seems something noble for ordinary people and they think about sending money to somewhere when it comes to donation. However, the donation trend is now changing drastically. Buying a bottle of moistener nearby a cosmetic shop can help starving children in Africa. Recently, a small cosmetics maker Sweet [...]