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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — VANK, the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, a non-governmental organization, announced that historical facts were being distorted on Google Japan’s search portal as it made fun of former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and current President Moon Jae-in. When Internet users search for the word “VANK” via Google Japan’s search [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a non-governmental organization, revealed yesterday that a quick type in the search engine Google (www.google.com) of the keywords “Dokdo,” “Liancourt Rocks,” and “Takeshima” will bring about search results pinned to the geographical location of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and will [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK for short), an internet-based South Korean organization that aims to correct discrepancies or inaccuracies related to Korean history and geography, said that the famed online history reference Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) has cited three videos produced by VANK on Korean ancient history. [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), an internet-based organization, stated yesterday that 16 well-known educational websites such as Britannica and Wikipedia have included the area of the former Korean kingdom Goguryeo as part of China’s Han Dynasty on their websites. On Britannica’s official website (www.britannica.com/topic/Xiongnu), the area denoted [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Cyber diplomacy organization VANK has said it will urge Google to revise information about Dokdo in its Knowledge Graph. According to VANK on Tuesday, the politically charged Dokdo Island is being indicated as Liancourt Rocks in Google Knowledge Graph search results in at least 13 languages including English, Chinese, Russian, [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul-based nongovernmental organization said Thursday that it has created a new website to promote the wider international use of “East Sea” as the name of the body of water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. VANK, or Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, said that the opening of the [...]