Nine members of the entertainment-world service organization “Tasamo” [따사모, which is short for "Gathering of Warm-Hearted People"] held an event on the 29th in the name of building relationships with the Social Welfare Society. The organization also donated 4 million won’s worth of educational materials for disabled children, including touch plasma monitors.

The members of the organization who attended were “Tasamo” president Lee Kyung-ho and Kim Jung-eun, who is currently acting as promotional representative for the Social Welfare Society, along with Kim Won-hee (Marrying the Mafia 3), Kim Yumi (Return), Ahn Jae-wook (I Love You), Eugene (Three Dads, One Mom), Park Chul (Quiz King), Yoon Da-hoon (Unstoppable Wedding), and Jung Sun-kyung (Catch a Kangnam Mother).

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Nam Sang-mi joins others stars who have previously participated in the campaign to promote the adoption of handicapped children.

As part of the campaign with Holt Children’s Services, Nam took her promo photo with a child afflicted with a brain injury who is partially paralyzed in one side.

She said, “He can’t express himself through speech and he drooled a little, but he laughs and has a bright personality. … How great is love, and happiness that grows the more we share it, and Jae-yong reminds us that we posses that power… After hearing of Jae-yong’s circumstances, I really hope that many other disabled children will be discovered as soon as possible and receive medical care so they can enjoy their future lives.”

Kim Rae-won, Lee Junki, and Kim Jae-won were also recent participants (back in May) in the photo collection that accompanied the campaign.

Via JK News

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Actors Shin Hyun-joon and Bae Doo-na were sent earlier this summer to do some charity work abroad via cable channel tvN’s world special “LOVE” (their phrasing) documentary program. I’d mentioned this before Bae Doo-na set off for Nepal, but now that she’s gone there and back, we can see for ourselves what the trip entailed.

Shin’s trip was taken back in July to a small village in Malaysia, where he stayed a week, accompanied by photographer Yang Hyun-mo. Bae, on the other hand, made her trip in August to Lele, a village in Nepal, in conjunction with the Good Neighbors International program. She was also there a week with a photographer to document the events as she aided the family of a 7-year-old girl who worked manual labor to earn money for her family.

Shin Hyun-joon’s segment aired on September 6, while Bae Doo-na’s will be featured on the 20th.

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Bada donates a kiss in the name of the “Love’s Magic Kiss Relay” campaign on August 10 in Seoul’s Myungdong district.

The campaign features 11 female stars (also Hyori, Seo In-young, Sohn Tae-young, Solbi, Hwangbo, Shin Bong-seon, Wang Bit-na, Ahn Hye-kyung, Ha Yumi, Choi Eun-kyung) donating their lipstick kisses (made on Scotch magic tape) to raise money for disaster recovery of the Taean region following the oil spill last year.

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Bae Doo-na, last seen in 2007’s How to Meet a Perfect Neighbor, is heading to Nepal for some charity work as part of the Good Neighbors program.

From the UN Nepal site:

Good Neighbors International launched its work in Nepal in 2002 with the objective of child care and community development. It is an INGO based on Republic of South Korea with consultative status in UN ECOSOC (United Nation Economic and Social Council).

To this end, she left Korea on July 31 to spend the next seven days in the village of Lele in Kathmandu, Nepal. To capture the realities of village life and charity work, they were also accompanied by photographer Kwon Young-ho.

Bae Doo-na will be working to help the struggling livelihood and family of a 7-year-old girl, Somaya Nagarkoti, as well as visiting the girl’s school and delivering school supplies. Currently, Somaya and her two older sisters do mining work to help their family survive; Somaya spends most of their non-school time in the mines, while her sisters have long quit school (she earns approximately 50 cents for a day of work breaking rocks with a hammer). Despite her circumstances, Somaya reportedly has a lot of friends and dreams of becoming a doctor.

Not to let such a ratings opportunity pass them by, cable channel tvN will be broadcasting coverage of the trip in their World Special Love sometime in September. (The channel already aired the Ryu Seung-beom segment on May 1, wherein the actor traveled to Thailand, and the second segment in July with Shin Hyun-joon in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur.)

Via JK News

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