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“Tortee” is an online mentoring program (e-Mentoring), in which business employees and executives participate. e-Mentors, the employees and executives of companies and e-Mentees, or youths, form one-on-one relationships and steadily communicate via the “Tortee” web site. Through that, youths learn life skills needed for interpersonal relations and other relevant skills needed to function as members of society.

The project to upgrade culture is to awaken the next (“daum”) generation, especially children and youths who are excluded from cultural benefits. The project aims at fostering “cultural competence” to enable such marginalized youths to communicate, as well as improving the overall cultural competence of society.

  • Ggumtuel Alternative School “Sing and Dance with Your Body and Mind”
  • Integrated Educational Center of North-South Culture “Culture and art experience for the cultural communication of North Korean defector youths-a fun meeting of everyday life and art”
  • Daejeon Children's Center Association “Hurray for Children (a world by children)”
  • Didimdol Alternative School ”Complete beginner flies to precipice”-how to put together a band and how to shoot a movie
  • Mindle Alternative Education Center “My dreams will come true this way -Stop motion animation education for youths not in school”
  • Vinylhouse AA (Art Adapter) “Alternative Art Workshop 2004”
  • Bitdeun After School Classes “Children's Culture and Art Trip with a Theme”
  • Seoul Alternative Education Center and Network Alternative School “Personal Growth Project for Alternative School Teachers-2004 IDEC”
  • Research Area “Alternative and Practice” “Fun Workshop in the Woods”
  • Medi ACT “A Radio World for the Ears! Media Education for the Visually Impaired”
  • Yurak Welfare Center “A Pop Music Program for Youths of Low-Income Families -A project to sow hope”
  • >Rainbow Hill Shelter for Women - Beomsuk School Rainbow Theater Club Performance “Children in a Cave”
  • Changjak Scenario “Mobile Film Class”
  • Parangsae Gongbubang(community center)“Multimedia Creative Children's Story Writing Class”
  • Heukbit Gongbubang (community center)-4 th Heukbit Gongbubang Film Camp “Visual Production Workshop-I am not alone”

The Youth Global Culture Project was designed to encourage Korean youth to share their ideas about different cultures with foreign youths, particularly those from the Third World, by having them plan a joint project and carry it out. In 2004, the Daum Foundation provided support for the Projects of 6 youth groups.

  • Gaia Project
  • Bring Smile to Kids!
  • Korea in the World: what I think about it
  • China we know and China we should know-Chinese Culture since the reform and market opening
  • Communication Camp: Enjoy and Feel Korean Culture
  • Menstruation

In 2004, 14 officials of organizations that assist foreign workers had the opportunity of overseas training in Mongolia, Vietnam and China to understand different cultures and have first-hand experience of local culture.

  • Training in Mongolia
  • Training in Vietnam
  • Training in China

The Project was launched to assist children of foreign workers and Korean children have diverse cultural experiences and deepen mutual understanding on one another’s culture. We awarded grants for 4 projects.

  • Cultural experience program to help children of Mongolian workers adjust better to the Korean society
  • Good friends, new hope
  • Cultural experience in Jeju island for the children of foreign migrant workers
  • Cultural experience in Korea with the children of foreign migrant workers

Youth Voice provides financial and equipment support for creative youth media production, to enable youths to take the initiative to proactively produce media. Grants are provided for media production and various media education and mentoring. Outstanding teams are awarded with internships and overseas field trips, among other new experiences.


The iTer project is to narrow the digital divide among youth and empower them with specialized skills for computers and skills for living, to enable them to proactively adjust to the knowledge-based information society in the 21st century.
The project was initiated at the digital centers of 4 welfare facilities across Korea. Over 100 students every month, or over 3,600 students for 3 years, benefited from computer education.

“A Story of a City 9404 (Handosi Story)”, a collaborative project of the Daum Foundation and producers of “A Story of a City”, was a one-day collection of films, photos, pictures, and music about Seoul.

“Video Letter to Separated Families”, whose production is financed by the Daum Foundation and whose program is hosted by author Shim Hyang Jin, serves as a communication channel that delivers a video message from people living in South Korea to their war- separated families in the North.

The International Symposium on the Promotion of the Community Radio was co-hosted by the Daum Foundation and the MediAct, a public media center in Korea, under the goal of promoting the Community Radio movement in Korea.
The Community Radio Movement is one of the most active media movements in other countries, but still relatively unknown in Korea.

The opening of a community website for the disabled, with a focus on dedicated facilities, was financed by the Daum Foundation and carried out by the Citizens’ Solidarity to Promote Dedicated Facilities for the Disabled.
The website helps enable users to find a wide range of dedicated facilities for the handicapped by region and facility.

The Infortrust Movement is to "restore digital information disappearing from the Internet, make public online information and knowledge worth preservation through voluntary participation and fundraising by citizens.” Participants in the Movement, which has been in place since 2002 by the Daum Foundation, in collaboration with the Cultural Solidarity, the Cyber Culture Research Institute, the Information Sharing Solidarity, the Progressive Network Center and the Civic Action Group.