Paradise Group sponsors charity run for descendants of Korea's independence fighters

Paradise Group, operator of Korea's Paradise Casino resorts, is sponsoring a charity marathon supporting housing improvements for descendants of Korean independence activists for the fourth consecutive year, the company said Wednesday. The company said it will donate 81.5 million won ($57,100) to Habitat for Humanity Korea's Fighting Korea 2026 815 Run to be held Aug. 15 — the country's National Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japanese colonial rule in 1945 — in the Sangam-dong area of Seoul's Mapo District. Habitat for Humanity Korea, a nonprofit focused on housing improvement and home-building projects, holds the charity run, whose name references Aug. 15, on Liberation Day annually to raise funds for improving housing for descendants of independence activists. All individual entry fees and corporate sponsorships go toward the said cause. Many descendants of independence activists were left without a stable economic foundation because their ancestors sacrificed their livelihoods for the independence movement, and a significant number now live in dilapidated houses 30 to 50