The final group, K-51, arrived in Korea in 1980 and the Peace Corps program in Korea ended the next year. During their 15 years of service, Peace Corps volunteers helped and motivated Koreans to ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Sandra Nathan spent 1966 to 1968 in a South Korean town as a young Peace Corps volunteer, teaching English to high school girls. Fifty-two years later, Ms. Nathan, now back ...

A group of about 50 Peace Corps volunteers including their spouses and children enjoyed a week in Korea, revisiting the land they had lived in decades earlier on the invitation of Korea Foundation ...

In 1978 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, where I trained special education teachers. Over the past six decades humanitarian work like this has been done with 0.01% of the federal ...

South Korea native Ben Chon waited at the American Legion in Portage Saturday to surprise Bill Grove, a 95-year-old Korean War veteran, with the Ambassador for Peace Medal from the government of South ...

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s clarion call to service in 1961, more than 240,000 Americans have served in 144 different countries as Peace Corps volunteers.

Representatives of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Chicago came to Northbrook on July 2 to honor the Korean War service of two veterans at the George W. Benjamin American Legion ...

Peace Corps, Criticized for Medical Care, Settles Wrongful-Death Suit for $750,000. Bernice Heiderman, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, died of undiagnosed malaria in the African island nation ...

Bea Heiderman, a 24-year old Peace Corps volunteer died of undiagnosed malaria in 2018. The agency settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $750,000. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...