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The Korea Tourism Organization has invited Japanese tourists with disabilities to Korea in its effort to offer more travel opportunities to underprivileged people. A group of 30 Japanese tourists fr...
Updated : 2012.09.26 20:25
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‘Everyone is born with the ability to survive’ Mentally disabled people should be given opportunities to learn how to live independently and assimilate into society though it would pose a tough ch...
Updated : 2012.09.26 20:25
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Maksim Mrvica, a Croatian pianist whose musical passion was sparked after catching a glimpse of a piano at his best friend’s house when he was eight years old, inspired Korean children with disabili...
Updated : 2012.09.19 19:57
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Former hagwon boss helps mentally disabled open up through sculpture classes In a small classroom, students start rolling and kneading clay after listening to the teacher’s instructions. Showered ...
Updated : 2012.09.19 19:56
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The Korea International Cooperation Agency has constructed a general hospital in a poor district in Paraguay as part of its overseas assistance program. The state-run international aid agency held t...
Updated : 2012.09.12 20:19
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For the disabled, every day is a fight, welfare center counselor says A winding hillside road lined with tall trees and shrubs on the lower slopes of Achasan, eastern Seoul, leads up to a set of bui...
Updated : 2012.09.12 20:17
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An 89-year-old vendor has donated her 10 billion won ($8.8 million) fortune she had saved for 60 years to Yonsei University to help poor students. Kim Soon-jeon visited the university on Aug. 14 and...
Updated : 2012.09.05 20:25
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Geum develops business from simple repair shop to builder of specialized sports models Half the workers at wheelchair maker Wheel Line are disabled themselves, including chief executive Geum Dong-ok...
Updated : 2012.09.05 20:23
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More than 1,000 children had a rare chance to create special art pieces with famous media artist Lee Lee-nam last week as part of an art education program sponsored by South Korean conglomerate Hanwh...
Updated : 2012.08.29 20:12
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Koh Young-cho, a neurosurgeon at Konkuk University Medical Center, has been treating neglected people for 35 years. At the age of 59, Koh is still passionate about seeing patients from three nonprofi...
Updated : 2012.08.22 20:28
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Child Fund Korea will be holding a charity bazaar in support of children in need in South Sudan on Thursday, the organization said. Actor Jeon Gwang-ryul, who serves as the organization’s promotiona...
Updated : 2012.08.15 19:56
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ULAN BATOR ― On a vast expanse of grassy meadows in the suburbs, some 25 kilometers east of the Mongolian capital, a group of local teenagers shout and laugh while playing basketball and volleyball ...
Updated : 2012.08.15 19:55
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The Korea Tourism Organization and CJ Donors Camp, CJ Group’s charity organization, have launched summer camps for children from multicultural families and underprivileged children as part of a joint...
Updated : 2012.08.08 20:50
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A Korean construction company announced on Monday that it would donate a new apartment to gymnastics gold medalist Yang Hak-seon and his family, after reports of their makeshift plastic greenhouse ho...
Updated : 2012.08.08 20:50
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Sculptor Lee Wan (center) gives advice to junior artists participating in the annual art camp supported by K-Auction and Mecenat Council on Wednesday at a training center in Seoul. ( Mecenat Council)...
Updated : 2012.08.08 20:49
