A social prescription for Korea’s loneliness crisis

In February 1905, Paul Harris, a young lawyer in Chicago, made a decision that would change the course of civic history. Having arrived in Chicago a few years earlier, he had built a successful law practice, yet something was missing. He was lonely. The sense of camaraderie and community he had known growing up in a small town was glaringly absent amid the hustle and bustle of urban life. To fill that aching void, he and three acquaintances decided to form a club where people could come together, not just to do business, but to build meaningful connections. Because they rotated their meetings among one another’s offices, they chose “Rotary” as a fitting name. That one club soon became dozens, then hundreds, and eventually thousands, spreading from small towns to major cities across America and around the world. It has evolved into a global volunteer movement. Rotary came to South Korea in November 1927, when the first club was established in Seoul. Over the past century, it has grown into a network of more than 64,000 members across the country. Today, the world faces a crisis of

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