| 1975 |
CBCK established Caritas in the name “ The Human Development Committee ” |
| 1976 |
Full membership of the Asia Partnership for Human Development (APHD) |
| 1977 |
Lenten Campaign started |
| 1978 |
Diocesan Caritas vitalized |
| 1979 |
Full membership of Caritas Internationalis (CI) |
| 1984 |
Charity Sunday Collection started |
| 1991 |
Nationwide Sunday Collection for Overseas Aid started
Name changed “Caritas Corea”
|
| 1993 |
Official overseas aid started with Caritas Sunday Collection |
| 1995 |
Aid to North Korea started |
| 2004 |
Focus region program in Bangladesh started |
| 2005 |
Agricultural development project in North Korea started |
| 2006 |
Focus region program in Sri Lanka started |
|
Mandated as CI DPRK Program facilitating partner |
| 2008 |
Bishop Xavier Francisco Ahn was appointed as President(present) |
| 2009 |
First publication of Annual Report (English) |
Caritas Corea was established by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK) on June
26 th June
, 1975 as a national committee of the CBCK originally by the name of the “Human Development Committee” and was renamed to "Caritas Corea" in 1991. 
The goal of Caritas Corea is to make a great contribution to build a genuine community filled with Christian justice and love where the neglected and poor can lead decent lives in a caring society with the divine right of self-respect regardless of faith or beliefs.
Caritas Corea is (a) representing the activities of the Korean Catholic Church in the field of relief, welfare and development works and maintaining close mutual collaboration with various organizations both on the national and international levels, (b) coordinating, encouraging, harmonizing and making policies on the social activities of the Church, and (c) mobilizing the resources for those activities. 
