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”

Dream Flash is a project to “make dreams” to help youths design and realize their dreams and visions We plan to provide specific, practical information for various jobs that will form the future of youths. Also, we wish to provide opportunities to communicate the values relevant to life and work through meetings on-and off-line with those already in the line of work

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.

• D.O.S- Game “Elemental Night Tales”
• ON- Game “Forgotten Continent Episode”
• Magic Sugar Film – Fiction film “Beat Plato”
• A World We Make – Fiction film “Devil in My Hand”
• Youth 06 – Fiction film “The Wind Blows”
• Peridot – Fiction film “A man in woman's dress”
• HeShe – Fiction film “Sub memory”
• No Matches Found – Fiction film “All utopians are dead”
• The Jaeyun – Fiction film “Alice in Wonderland”
• Look – Fiction film/Documentary “Can You Understand?”
• Hangang - Documentary “Seongsu Grand Bridge”
• Digital Visual Community Nemo’s Dream -Documentary “Wages Not Reimbursed”
• Mangchae - Documentary “Long, long journey”
• Taking a look – Documentary “Guys! Let’s Play Outside!”
• Mountain Boy - Documentary “Farm, and Fireflies”
• Double Accord - Documentary “Cursed Teens Born in 1989?!”
• Madein (People) - Documentary “Our dating life”
• Pukin workshop – Documentary “Lost Child”
• Solbitbyeol – Music video “Where is the bluebird?”
• Willy Nilly – Photograph/Web “Flower”
• iTER – Web site “‘Dreamers”
• Poverty - Music/Music video “Chains (Secret Garden)”
• Cheonmanmong (Ten Million Dreams, etc) – Cut-out animation “Looking for hidden masks”
• Jit - Animation “Mong (Dream)”
• Haegamyeon – Fiction film “Break Away”
• Chang - Documentary “People Opening the Dawn”
• Make 6 – Fiction film “Even So”
• Y.M – Fiction film “Butterfly”
• Sea.Ne.Ma - Documentary “Self-Camera”
• Dandi - Video “Familial Love (A Table for Thirty)”
• Ad Lib - Video “Dialect Vs Standard Speech”
• BLUE SCREEN - Visual “Look”
• KTSH Film - Video “Mom’s Birthday”
• Pictures - Photograph “Taking Pictures of Our Village”
• Damse Visual Class – Documentary “The World As We See It”
• JDR – Documentary “free and school”
• V.O.T - Video “In Search of Jeju Island Culture”
• Ad Lib – Fiction film “Dialect Vs. Standard Speech”
• Fluorescent Earrings – Documentary “Anyeong”
• Chubasa – Animation “Kidults”
• This is the Problem - Documentary “Sajik-dong Gongbubang (Yes We Are…)”
• Chon (Village) Film – Fiction film “Truth 2 (Forgotten Memory)”
• Gombaerimbae – Fiction film “Storyhouse of the Future”
• Scattered – Installment and Web “I Knew Vaguely”
• Neulpeum – Documentary “A Subject Everyone Knows, But No-one Wants to Speak of”
• Songgotni (cuspid) – Documentary “Never edustory”
• OIsaegim – Documentary “Finding Hidden Pictures”
• Conquest of Space – Documentary “Horror Stories of Female Students Finding A Job”
• mmm - Documentary “On the SK8”
• nice view – Documentary “This is hardcore”
• Liquid dreams - Complex “Utopia-dejavu/bling bling”
• Ggeori – Installment and Web “Urban Breathing Techniques”
• Eyes – Experimental film “Shoes”
• Nareum – Animation “How Nalm Lives”
• Yellow Fish – Animentary “Pigeon Bag”
• URaZil – Visual / Animation “FF”
• Association of Korean Modern History Research - Documentary “Become the Center of Your Twenty-Year-Old World”

In 2005, 11 officials of organizations that support foreign workers had the opportunity of overseas training in Mongolia, Vietnam and Indonesia to experience first-hand local culture and life, and met with foreign workers who had returned to their home country.

• Training in Mongolia
• Training in Vietnam
• Training in Indonesia

“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 Daum Foundation operates the IT Culture Grant to disseminate the value of the IT network. The Grant provides assistance to non-profit projects and research that have as objectives maximization of the positive potential of informatization and networking, as well as minimizing negative impact.

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.

The “L'Oreal Group Home Program" is a joint initiative by L’Oreal and Daum Foundation. The "L'Oreal Group Home Program" was established to support the alternative family, Group Home, and address the difficulties of its members. Group Home is a residence for abused, abandoned children/juveniles or children/juveniles who cannot live with their parents due to financial problems or due to break-up of their families. About 5 to 10 children/juveniles live together in a Group Home.