Ewha Womans University established a social welfare center in Cambodia to provide education to underprivileged children and women, according to the school on Wednesday.The school became the first education institute in Korea to build a social welfare and education center overseas. The Ewha Social Service center in Phnom Penh is expected to run education programs for children from low-income families, computer courses for women and workers, and projects that can contribute to the development of l

Lee Hye-kyung, social welfare professor at Yonsei University, has been appointed the chairperson of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, which helps set the city’s welfare policies and improve social services in the capital, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday. Lee is expected to serve a three-year term at the foundation until March 2015. Her career in the field of social welfare includes chairperson of the presidential consultative committee on resolving social polarization and

Four South Korean women were placed on Newsweek’s list of 150 fearless women recognized as pioneers in their fields. According to the online edition of the news magazine on Monday, the four are Park Geun-hye, leader of the ruling Saenuri Party; Kim Sung-joo, CEO and chairperson of Sungjoo Group and MCM Holdings AG.; Lee Gil-ya, president of Gachon University; and Romi Haan, CEO of Haan Corp. Park Geun-hye was listed as a four-term lawmaker and front-runner among potential presidential candidates

Members of Girls’ Generation will be appointed honorary publicity ambassadors for the southeastern Seoul district of Gangnam, district officials said Monday. The girl group will help promote the affluent district as a tourist attraction and hot bed of hallyu talent, they said.“We expect people around the world to recognize Gangnam as an attractive and charming place through Girls’ Generation’s image,” said Jang Won-seok, Gangnam public relations director. The district plans to hold the second ha

A local university student has become the 3,000th bone marrow donor in the country.Kim Ji-in, 21, a police administration major at Dongshin University, recently donated bone marrow to a child ill with leukemia, and became the 3,000th bone marrow donor in the country, according to Korea Marrow Donor Program last week. “I didn’t have enough preparation time because I was about to take the police recruitment exam, but I couldn’t delay the help a child needs desperately from me,” said Kim. Her decis

Lee Gil-ya, former doctor and founder of a medical foundation, was appointed president of Gachon University on Thursday.Lee, 81, became the inaugural president of the university established by merging Gachon Medical and Science University and Kyungwon University. Lee is known as a pioneer in medicine, becoming a doctor in 1957 when female doctors were rare, and later founding the Gil Medical Foundation, which later established Gachon University of Medicine in 1998. Lee has also been an active so

A group of foreign business leaders in Seoul said increasing global competitiveness of the capital is vital for its sustainable development at a meeting with Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon on Monday. “Seoul needs to set policies and plans that will elevate its global competitiveness for sustainable growth,” said the new board members of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council at the first consultative meeting with Park. The meeting was closed to public. Park also shared his vision for city