A volleyball day along the Han River is to raise cash for homeless people in Seoul. Games will be played on Sunday, July 10 from 3-7 p.m. costing 15,000 won per player to enter. The event will be held on the river about a 10 minutes’ walk from Sincheon Station, near Jamsil. The event, organized by PLUR, is to generate funds to buy rice and other essentials for the soup kitchen supported by the g...

A beach cleanup saw native English teachers and Korean volunteers join together to help preserve the Busan coastline on Saturday. Four members of the Association for Teachers of English in Korea joined more than twenty Korean members of the Rainbow Volunteers to clean the rocky Igidae beach. ATEK plans to help with beach cleanups every second and fourth Saturday of the month for the entire summe...

English teacher Nathan Furey only lived in Korea for four years, but in that short time the Canadian built a life and family here. He married his wife Hyo-Jung not long after arriving to teach on Jeju island in 2005, and the couple had two boys together. Though he quickly embraced life in Korea, he was not destined to be here long. On March 13, 2009, Nathan passed away suddenly, leaving his you...

Little Hannah Warren waiting on groundbreaking windpipe transplant surgery Hannah Warren is approaching her first birthday, but her parents are yet to take her home from Seoul National University Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Hannah Warren was born with no windpipe and is waiting for a groundbreaking transplant to save her life by helping her to breathe on her own. She was born in Go...

North Korea opened the floodgates of the Hwanggang Dam Monday night without warning, sending a wall of water across the border, Seoul sources said Wednesday. In September 2009, the North released about 40 million cubic meters of water from the dam into the Imjin River near the border. The flashflood caused by the discharge left six South Koreans dead, in what some called a “water attack” from P...