Posts by Danielle Harms

Every Sunday a waiting room in Raphael Clinic, a charity clinic in Seoul’s Hyehwa neighborhood fills with people from countries spanning the world. Filipinos speaking in Tagalog sit beside Chinese patients chatting in Mandarin. Conversations in more languages, from Vietnamese to Russian, create a low hum in the line of people winding up the stairs to the clinic’s entry. With a population of over one million foreign workers in South Korea, every Sunday a small slice of them find their way through this line to the Raphael Clinic, run by approximately 300 Korean volunteers. Ranging from doctors and lawyers to medical students and teenagers, once every week this team works together to offer free medical services to foreign workers. Continue reading →

Experience a Sunday at Seoul’s Raphael Clinic through images. Continue reading →