SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The COVID-19 pandemic has made this year’s winter colder and harsher, particularly for the energy-poor households in South Korea who need to endure the winter’s cold with coal briquettes. Coal briquette donations plunged this year, and the number of volunteers participating in coal briquette sharing activities declined primarily due [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called ‘fandom donations’ in which fans of celebrities or public figures engage in acts of donation continue to expand every year, gaining a foothold as a new tier of donation practices. The Beautiful Foundation, a South Korean charity group, and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy studied [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — J-hope, a member of K-pop superband BTS, donated 100 million won (US$84,000) Friday for children suffering economic hardships amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, a charity group said. According to ChildFund Korea, J-hope expressed hope that his donation will be used to help children in need have a warm winter. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A K-pop fan club in Thailand visited slums to share end-of-year compassion with the poor. Some 30 members of the BTS and So Ji-sub fan clubs visited Khlong Toei, a downtown slum in Bangkok last Friday. They were the winners of the K-pop cover dance festival held by the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the public’s distrust of charitable organizations, blockchain technology that is safe from forgery and modification is emerging as a solution to address such suspicion. The amount of donations collected at Cherry, a donation application released in December 2019 by startup E4NET Co., reached 2.6 billion won as of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran, on humanitarian grounds, to help address its vaccine shortage, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Monday. The shipment of the vaccines will begin later in the day for arrival in Iran on Wednesday to support the Middle Eastern nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will donate AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam and Thailand, as it has enough doses to inoculate its own people and help other countries, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. South Korea is set to ship 1.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Vietnam and 470,000 doses to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Monday that it will carry out its global donation campaign LG Come Home Challenge in a customer participation format using metaverse platforms. The company plans to operate a home electronics experience zone under the concept of ‘healthy life’ at metaverse gaming platforms such as the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Jung Woo-sung has donated 100 million won (US$85,740) to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Korea to provide humanitarian aid to people in war-torn Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. According to the South Korean office of the U.N. refugee agency, Jung, the goodwill ambassador for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s overseas aid agency, said Tuesday that it had donated 378 oxygen concentrators to the Nepalese government. Oxygen concentrators can help with the treatment of severe cases of COVID-19. With poor public health infrastructure, Nepal saw its number of cases average about [...]