TAEBAEK, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An elderly person in his late 60s visited the administrative welfare center in Taebaek, Gangwon Province on Tuesday. He carried a 20-kilogram liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder. “This is a piggy bank that I made for myself. The amount of money I saved is not much but I hope [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Caltex Corp., a major South Korean refiner, said Thursday it will make and donate “braille first-aid kits” for visually impaired people during the year-end season. The braille first-aid kit is made by inserting various medical items such as ointment, disinfectant and antipyretic analgesic into a flat first-aid kit [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — An Asiana Airlines flight Thursday from South Korea to Nepal carried some highly unusual passengers: 42 dairy cows were aboard as part a project that illustrates the value of paying it forward. The cows are the first batch of a total of 101 Holstein heifers and two breeding bulls [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of Hybe, the entertainment firm behind K-pop supergroup BTS, donated 5 billion won (US$3.5 million) to a local charity, it has said. The donation will be used to help out-of-school youths and those in residential care facilities get fair educational opportunities without discrimination, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — RM, leader of K-pop superband BTS, has donated 100 million won (US$71,854) for the second consecutive year to preserve and restore overseas Korean cultural heritage, a state-run cultural foundation said Thursday. The Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation said the singer, whose real Korean name is Kim Nam-joon, has recently [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean embassy in Mexico has donated three pieces of medical equipment valued at US$76,000 to the Korea-Mexico friendship hospital located in Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. The donation includes mobile ultrasonic diagnosis equipment, a mobile X-ray scanner and a video electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring device. [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, South Korea’s top steelmaker, said it has launched a talent cultivation program in collaboration with Brazilian mining giant Vale SA. Under this program, the two companies agreed to offer support to young students from low-income households in South Korea and Brazil. On Wednesday, POSCO donated US$100,000 to Korea [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — GS25, a South Korean convenience store chain, said Thursday it had decided to donate the leftover inventory of closed stores to Good Will Store, a vocational rehabilitation facility for handicapped people run by the Miral Welfare Foundation. Thus far, it has disposed of such products by sending them to [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A WeChat chatroom for apartment residents in Shanghai’s southwestern district of Minhang was recently filled with words of appreciation to their “Korean neighbors.” The incident came after South Korean food producer Pulmuone Co. gave out free tofu to thousands of households in this apartment complex stricken by a month-long [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight South Korean pharmaceutical companies will donate medicine, medical supplies and health supplements to Ukraine that’s been devastated by Russia’s invasion, a pharmaceutical association said Monday. The Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association said its eight member companies offered to donate medical goods worth 3 billion won (US$2.43 million) [...]