A photo scavenger hunt is to raise cash for charity in Seoul. The third annual Little Travellers Scavenger Hunt is to raise cash for the Hillcrest AIDS Center Trust. The contest to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS costs 15,000 won to enter ― covering the cost of a Little Traveller doll. The beaded dolls are handcrafted by women at Hillcrest who are affected by HIV/AIDS.The entry fee also covers the

A closure-threatened animal sanctuary has managed to secure new premises to keep helping abandoned pets. The Busan Abandoned Pet Sanctuary was facing the prospect of losing its accommodation for street animals as the lease on its original premises was not being renewed. But now BAPS is set to move to its new home in an old pig farm this September. The charity is now looking for architects, enginee

A group helping migrant women in Korea is taking part in a Korean craft exhibition today through Saturday.EcoFemme is participating in Ecolife section of the Hand-made Korea fair at COEX in Seoul. The social enterprise group is working with migrant women to make and sell handicrafts, returning the profits to them.EcoFemme also provides counseling and education services for migrant women here and s

The Seoul Global Center is holding a special summer flea market in Ttukseom on July 30, with 10 percent of proceeds going to charity.Between noon and 4 p.m. the market’s hopeful hawkers will set up shop in the area between Ttukseom Station and the Han River.Organizers are setting up a holiday theme, and encourage vendors to bring vacation items such as guide books, flip-flops, sunglasses and swimm

An open mic dance party on a boat off a Korean island is to raise cash for charity. The Jeju Furey Foundation, founded to help an expat’s widow and her two children, has raised more than 30 million won ($28,200) in two years. The charity has raised the cash through many sports tournaments, concerts and T-shirt sales on the island. The group first started raising cash for English teacher Nathan Fur

It’s hard to believe that less than six months ago President Barack Obama was talking about a “Sputnik moment.” In his State of the Union address he proposed huge investments in infrastructure, innovation and education to help us “win the future.” The president still wants those investments, but nowadays he means something different when he talks about the need to “do something big.” At his news c

The bills that are not moving along in the process of legislation number 6312. As the leader of the ruling Grand National Party says, it is shameful for each standing committee of the National Assembly to sit on hundreds of bills.The ruling party has decided to speed up the legislation process when the National Assembly opens an extraordinary session next month. That is a welcome decision. Among t

Lawmakers are jockeying for position ahead of party nominations, though eight long months are left until the next general elections. Some are abandoning their existing constituencies in search of new electoral districts. Others are jumping ship in factional regrouping.But these efforts to enhance their chances of being nominated again should not come as a surprise. All members of the National Asse

CAIRO ― Dramatic and once unimaginable changes have occurred in Egypt over the last six months. President Hosni Mubarak has been ousted from office. The people have won the right to new and free elections. The long-feared secret police appears to have been muzzled.But this revolution has only occurred in Cairo and the northern part of the country.Upper Egypt, an area that forms more than two-third