Seoul, Korea: A volunteer expert said that South Korea's overseas volunteer program creates a triple-win situation for volunteer participants, donor and recipient governments.  Read article

If you are a foreigner working in Korea _ and volunteering on the side _ could you be fined, even deported? Don’t laugh. Volunteering may put you in danger.  Read article

Seoul, Korea: The government of South Korea formed a committee on volunteer promotion to address social inclusion issues.  Read article

Seoul, Rep. of Korea: Employees of Korea Life Insurance dedicate one percent of their working hours to volunteering to show that they "love their neighbours."  Read article

Seoul, Korea: The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a government-funded agency announced its plans to increase its development budget from 183.5 billion won for 2005 to 384.2 billion won for 2009. Accordingly, starting this year, the project fee for overseas volunteer service teams will increase.   Read article

Service For Peace (SFP) held IVD activities in 10 countries involving more than 4,600 volunteers and participants worldwide. Here are summaries of the celebrations.  Read article

Seoul, Republic of Korea: To close the digital gap in developing countries, four-member teams of young Koreans are heading to cities and villages throughout the Asia-Pacific region, South America and Africa.   Read article

Seoul: Volunteer 21, a volunteer organization recently surveyed 1,600 Korean adults and found that 20.5 percent were involved in volunteer work. With an adult population of 37 million, that would amount to 7.5 million people. Volunteer 21 says the figure would rise to 10 million if it included middle and high school students who volunteer in order to receive academic credit.  Read article

Seoul, Korea: I'm looking at Catherine's picture with pride. I remember the day that the Filipino child I now sponsor said "Thank you." In summer of 2003, I was in the Philippines as part of a volunteer programme sponsored by Daegu Catholic University.  Read article

JW Marriott Hotel Seoul along with other Korean hotel chains of Marriott International Inc. have joined volunteer activities to help the poor in coorporation with Habitat for Humanity Korea (HFH Korea), a nonprofit organization for low-income families.  Read article