CNN iReport

Efforts and activities of about 35,000 Vank members, having performed cyber diplomatic mission through internet for 10 years since its establishment in 1999, to inform people in the world of Korea in a proper way, are well-known through mass communication.

As Vank in online, Yu Hwang-Wu, a representative of Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom, who plays a role as a private envoy in silence by informing netizens in the world of Korean culture and history through famous overseas sites such as Wikipedia, Flickr and Social Actions, is at issue.

Mr. Yu is being introduced one after another to the overseas press, excellent websites and blogs by recording English columns related to Korean education such as admissions office system, university entrance examination and essay education in Flickr and International Business Times as well as by introducing about Korean culture and history through internet.

Data, made out on the basis of Mr. Yu’s field knowledge and long know-how, is checked in United States Yahoo, Google, CNN Blog, ireport, Social Actions, Mahalo, openPR NEWS, SPEEPLE NEWS and cnblogs (博客园新闻频道). 

Mr. Yu, a representative of Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom, emphasized “It is a valuable social obligation of each netizen to set up Korean position in the world in a proper way by letting people in the world know about Korean assets such as Korean culture, history and education through internet, facing the 64th anniversary of Independence Day of Korea”

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http://www.ibtimes.co.kr/article/news/20090819/7075693.htm