SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — After the World Health Organization (WHO) omitted Dokdo and Ulleung Island on a recent map of Korea, the agency has been met with strong complaints from a Korean civic group to correct its mistake. However, for more than two months, it has refused to change the map, even with [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Asians are responding in force to a global campaign launched by a South Korean civic group opposing and fighting against discrimination in the Americas and Europe targeting people of Asian descent sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a South Korean nongovernmental organization, has [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A poster designed by a South Korean civil group with a message of encouragement to overcome the coronavirus is being met with positive responses from foreign netizens. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), which internationally promotes the country and its history online, distributed posters in seven languages on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) posted five different kinds of posters on Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday to promote South Korean sovereignty over easternmost islets of Dokdo. “The year 2020 has arrived. Please upload the posters on your social media accounts with a hashtag,” the post said. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Non-governmental organization Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) has produced a video to publicize the serious problem of sports fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bearing the Rising Sun Flag. VANK, which previously posted Korean-language videos on YouTube on the November 11, added English subtitles. Furthermore, the organization also [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam, with the Korean Wave sweeping a population of 100 million, will also be able to read Korea’s March 1 Declaration of Independence. Cyber diplomacy organization Voluntary Agency Network Korea (VANK) said Sunday it had recently translated the “March 1 Declaration of Independence” into Vietnamese. “Vietnam also has a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The cyber diplomatic missionary called the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) posted a video Thursday on YouTube claiming that the Rising Sun Flag is a war criminal flag like the Nazi’s Hakenkreuz, or swastika. VANK also sent videos with English subtitles to 64 Holocaust centers around the world, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) announced on Wednesday that it had posted the March 1st Proclamation of Independence in six different languages on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s website that was established to promote the city to the world. The organization has translated the document into English, Japanese, Chinese, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) has launched a campaign against foreign portal websites, broadcasting companies, and governmental organizations using the term Chinese New Year, in a bid to replace it with the correct expression of Lunar New Year. According to the agency, searching for the term ‘Lunar [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Two Korean college students have been instrumental in identifying historical inaccuracies regarding the world’s oldest extant movable metal print book, Jikji, on online websites, and having them corrected. Oh Yu-jin, a 20-year-old college freshmen studying Korean folklore at Andong National University, discovered that the Japanese website Window to World [...]