Lately, many people are concerned about volunteering or donating activities. We can see them through entertainer couples like Cha In-pyo and Shin Ae-ra and Noh Sean and Jung Hye-young. Noh and Jung volunteer on their wedding anniversary, and the two couples support other countries’ children by donating some money every month.
In Keimyung, there is a group carrying out such volunteer activities; it is Keimyung Caritas.

Keimyung Caritas
Web site: http://1pro.kmu.ac.kr
Telephone Number: (053) 580-3011~2



For ten years, Dongsan Medical Center staff have raised funds by donating 1% of their monthly salary and used it for missionary and volunteer work. Keimyung Overseas Volunteers Corps has done volunteer work in China, Nepal, and Vietnam since 2002. In addition to them, many other Keimyung people participate in such activities. Keimyung staff, including President Synn, voluntarily donate 1% of their monthly salaries. The donation money is used to make up for poor housing and medical and educational environments nationally and internationally.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Keimyung in 2004 and the start of a new half century in 2005 and to promote the revitalization of donation culture, Keimyung Caritas was founded. By using the past experience, Keimyung Caritas has systemized and extended the purpose and the scope of volunteering.


At the beginning of the year, Keimyung Caritas advertise their activities and volunteering programs for the year. Since 2006, Caritas has supported the Keimyung Overseas Volunteers Corps in summer and winter.

2009 Keimyung Caritas
Looking at Caritas’ achievement in 2009, the Gazette discovered that Caritas advertised its volunteer programs and selected some programs among them. The selected programs were night school volunteering for people who missed learning opportunities when they were young, library volunteering for children, and visiting the poor to check their health.

1. Overseas Volunteering
◆Activities
- Improvement of third world countries’ educational environments
- Building schools and playing fields
- Having taekwondo exhibitions and samul-nori perfomances, balloon art and face painting, magic show performances
- Contributing sports goods, living and school supplies
- Participants: two hundred people including students and faculty

2. Keimyung Kimchi-Making Day
On November 17, Caritas volunteers made Kimchi in the parking lot around Adams Chapel and delivered it to local people. They delivered 5kgs of rice and kimchi to one thousand houses. Keimyung students and faculty, and eight hundred local residents participated.

2010 Caritas Mentoring
In 2010, the Caritas Mentoring Program is to do more activities than last year. Through this mentoring program, learners can be mentored individually and learn study methods and have practical cultural experiences. In the long term, the program’s purpose is to extend the program’s benefits from the low-income group to general students in cooperation with a variety of institutions.



The number of mentors is about twenty to twenty five people who are capable of teaching middle school students and are equipped with a volunteering mind and a sense of duty. Mentoring has various sections, several offered more than twice a week.
- Education: mainly for English, math, Korean, and science
- Life: bread baking, beauty arts, fashion
- Medical: one-time health examination for students each semester
- Culture: one-time viewing of a performance in cooperation with Keimyung Art Center

As seen above, many good deeds are done through Caritas. This year, why don’t you start to share what you have with others? For more information, you can call the Keimyung Caritas office or visit its Web site.