SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A youth non-profit organization hoping to raise awareness of the severity of environmental problems caused by plastic straws and encouraging the use of eco-friendly straws has appeared in the headlines. The non-profit organization, Tong Gam, whose 150 members are mostly university students, was established in 2016 with the aim [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s civil society organizations carried out the largest number of their official development assistance (ODA) projects in Cambodia and Vietnam in 2017, a report said Thursday. The nation’s 144 civil society organizations, which were surveyed by the Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation (KCOC) and the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A rescue mission to free Asian black bears currently being raised for their gallbladders will kick off early next month. Green Korea United, an environmental activist group, announced its purchase of three Asian black bears, a species on the brink of extinction, held captive at a farm in Gangwon [...]
SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Korea Multi-Culture Adolescent Center’, which is a non-governmental organization supporting adolescents from multicultural families to reach their potential, will soon open. The ‘Korea Multi-Culture Adolescent Center’ announced that it will hold its opening ceremony on December 18. The center will help adolescents of different cultural backgrounds living in Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The “customary” offering of travel expenses for spouses accompanying participating in the overseas travel of local government heads is finally diminishing. According to Wirye Citizens’ Solidarity, an NGO monitoring the budget spending of local governments, only Jeju Special Self-governing Province and its provincial council are currently covering travel expenses [...]