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Civic Group Urges South Korea’s Education Ministry to Correct Stereotyped Portrayals of Africa in School Textbooks

SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A leading South Korean civic organization has formally requested the Education Ministry revise middle school social studies textbooks, arguing that current depictions of Africa remain oversimplified and culturally biased. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), known for its activism in correcting historical and cultural inaccuracies, stated on Friday [...]

VANK Launches Website to Inform Vietnamese Students About S. Korea

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a South Korean civic group, said Sunday it has launched a website in the Vietnamese language to offer accurate information about South Korea to Vietnamese students, who account for a large share of the exchange students in South Korea. The website offers [...]

Civic Group Begins Campaign Against False Claims that Pansori is from China

SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean civic organization is challenging false claims that “pansori,” a Korean genre of musical storytelling, is from China. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) introduced pansori as traditional Korean one-person opera that uses a drum, ballads, dialogue and choreography to deliver a story. The civic group [...]

VANK Launches Campaign to Correct Misconceptions About the Gwanggaeto Stele

SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a cyber diplomatic organization, has launched a campaign to correct misconceptions that could arise from the information board of the Gwanggaeto Stele installed in the city of Jian in Jilin Province, China. The Gwanggaeto Stele is a memorial stele for the tomb [...]

VANK Distributes Posters to Criticize Japan’s Revisionist Take on Forced Labor

SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic South Korean cyber organization created posters that were put up for distribution on social media Wednesday to criticize Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Center in Tokyo for offering distorted information related to the various historical atrocities that took place on Hashima Island. Japan vowed that it would set [...]

WHO Refuses to Add Dokdo and Ulleung Islands to Map of Korea

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 [...]

Campaign Against Asian Hatred Gains Traction

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 [...]

Hopeful Poster Made by S. Korean Civic Group Liked by Thousands of Foreign Netizens

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 [...]

Civic Group Starts Campaign to Share Dokdo Posters for New Years

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. [...]

NGO Video Criticizes Japan for Using Rising Sun Flag at Sporting Events

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 [...]