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[Real Reality]

Koreans Donating Less, while Poverty Increases
The amount of donations to charity reportedly decreased in 2003. According to a survey Gallup Korea conducted Nov. 26 on 1,048 people, 52 percent said that they donated some money in the year 2003. In the same survey in 2000, 57 percent said they had, and 53 percent said so in 2001.

By comparison, a recent poll done by the U.S. charity organization "Independent Sector," found that 89 percent of families in the United States give money to charity.

The Korea Development Institute (KDI), in a report that it released in October, categorized 10.1 percent of city households, equal to 470,000 people, as living under "absolute poverty," basing their income level for 2000. Absolute poverty is defined as earning less than the minimum amount of money necessary to live. Korea has a relative poverty rate of 11.53 percent, the highest among the 30 OECD member nations excluding Mexico, the KDI report said.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200312/200312310020.html

Only 2 in 1000 Volunteer
Only about one person in a thousand volunteered for public service last year, according to a study by the Korea National Council on Social Welfare (KNCSW). Furthermore, the number of volunteers who worked regularly, at least once a month, came to 1,439, only two percent of those doing actual voluntary work.

Kon Hee-jin, spokesperson for the KNCSW, went on to comment that the percentage of the population that is known to provide some type of volunteer service is more than 56 and 48 percent in US and Britain, respectively.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200310/kt2003102017534812020.htm

Donations help girl get marrow transplant
Residents of Dongducheon, Gyeonggi province, chipped in money to help a 15-year old girl with acute leukemia who needs a bone marrow transplant. The school collected 30 million won by holding bazaars. Soldiers stationed in Dongducheon also donated money and blood.

A Japanese citizen decided on Tuesday to donate his marrow. As a result, Ms. Kim's transplant is now scheduled for St. Mary�s Hospital in Yeouido, Seoul in December.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200310/15/200310152328358239900090409041.html

Red Cross Appeals for More Blood Donations
Due to the dwindling number of blood donors, the nation's blood supply is suffering from major shortages and is feared to disrupt the availability of transfusions, the Korean Red Cross (KRC) said yesterday. Officials at the KRC said that the nation�s blood supply dropped with the decrease in group blood donors, such as schools and military camps. The main cause being a malaria alert issued in northern Kyonggi Province from July, which prohibited soldiers there from making blood donations. Soldiers make up about one-fourth of the 2.5 million blood donors each year.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200310/kt2003100917090012020.htm

For Housing Rentals, Foreigners Easy Victims
Foreign residents in Seoul are preferred over any Korean tenant by their landlords because they are paying several times as much as what Koreans are paying for their rent, realtors and industry sources say. For a 25-pyong (one pyong equals 3.3 square meters) apartment in Seoul, foreign residents are paying as much as two million won ($1,600) in monthly rent while the same apartment may go for only 500,000 won for Koreans.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200308/kt2003082818233111970.htm

A majority of foreign residents in South Korea believe Koreans lack a sense of ethics and rationality.
http://www.yonhapnews.net/Engnews/20031115/300100000020031115102353E3.html

GM Korea to Host Online Auction for Charity (May 5, 2001)
All proceeds will go to the Jimmy Carter Work Project, a trust that builds houses for the homeless, which will take place in Korea in August.
http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200105/200105250352.html

[Cthulhu]

Word to the wise, Real Reality. Don't let your title give away your bias.

[Real Reality]

Cthulhu,

Please respond with some facts, article summaries, or data that support whatever position you claim. What is your bias?

Perhaps, you have been sleeping too long.

"Cthulhu is dead but not truly dead, as he and his fellow inhabitants of R'lyeh sleep the aeons away."
http://members.tripod.com/~danharms/part1.htm#q12

[Cthulhu]

[Mr. Pink]

Do you ever post positive stuff?

[Real Reality]

Mr. Pink,
Is this story not positive?

Donations help girl get marrow transplant
Residents of Dongducheon, Gyeonggi province, chipped in money to help a 15-year old girl with acute leukemia who needs a bone marrow transplant. The school collected 30 million won by holding bazaars. Soldiers stationed in Dongducheon also donated money and blood.

A Japanese citizen decided on Tuesday to donate his marrow. As a result, Ms. Kim's transplant is now scheduled for St. Mary�s Hospital in Yeouido, Seoul in December.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200310/15/200310152328358239900090409041.html

[jajdude]

Real Reality,

I appreciate your posts. Don't read 'em all, but at least you back 'em up pretty good, if indeed whatever the newspapers say reflects reality...

[wylde]

these guys prefer to give a 3rd of their wage to their church than save a stranger..

[ryleeys]

Charity only counts if "God" sees it...