Overseas instructors are being sought to teach a multicultural education program to Korean kids. The Seoul Youth Center for Cultural Exchange is seeking volunteers to help on its 2012 Deep-rooted World Cultural Heritage (MIZY) program. Foreign citizens aged 19 or older are invited to teach their country’s culture and world heritage sites to native Koreans.Volunteers will deliver lectures about world cultural heritage and create class materials to inspire cultural diversity in young people here.

A volunteer group is set to make a trip to help disabled people at their home on March 3. Angel House Volunteers will meet inside Younsinae Subway Station near Exit 3 at 1:30 p.m. before making their way by bus to the home in Goyangdong, western Seoul.The group goes to socialize with the people living there once each month, and helps them with some basic chores. They assist with cooking, cleaning and laundry as well as spending time with children and adults living there. People attending should

A charity helping children in 13 countries is reaching out to Korean donors to help improve the lives of children around the world.Restore a Child helps children access basic needs unavailable to them such as food, water, health care, education and shelter. The U.S. non-profit organization is now seeking volunteer translators to help set up a Korean website to reach what founder and director Norma Nashed describes as a community of responsive hearts.“Many Koreans express an interest in helping t

Wives of diplomats in Korea gathered Wednesday to celebrate the efforts of Seoul International Women’s Association to raise more than 2 billion won ($1.7 million) for Korean charities in just over 30 years.The Italian stall at the last SIWA and Diplomatic Community Bazaar was also recognized for raising some 12 million won for Korean charities. “SIWA is very important for all the diplomatic spouses. There is a real sense of community,” said Maria Giovanna Fadiga Mercuri, wife of the Italian amba

More than a dozen V-Day events are to be held across Korea to help end violence against women. A range of events are to be held in Seoul, Busan and other cities to support the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. People around the world are encouraged to stage Eve Ensler’s award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” and other artistic works during campaign season that has run from February until April for the last 14 years. V-Day founder Ensler interviewed more than 2

The international community is to help people living in a Gangnam shantytown keep warm this winter.Guryong Village is an unauthorized settlement of about 1,200 shacks located near the affluent southern Seoul area. The residents settled in the former green belt zone after being evicted by city authorities for redevelopment projects in the 1980s, in the run-up to the Seoul Olympics. Expats will deliver coal to some of the 2,500 people still living there whose shack homes were damaged by a fire thi