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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 Youth Voice Center is a community-based meeting place for the systematic promotion of youth media activities.
Daum Foundation designates Youth Voice Centers from community-based institutes and groups each year through an annual selection process. Successful candidates are provided with operation expenses, media education whatwedo and equipment for a maximum of three years.

“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 “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.

The Youth & Media Grant seeks to expand opportunities for youths who wish to express themselves and communicate freely through media, by supporting and seeking out diverse projects that can contribute to the wiser use of media.

Daum Foundation awarded grants to the projects below in 2005 to disseminate the network society and the value of healthy communication. We have supported information culture, cultural diversity and non-profit projects, information, children/youths excluded from culture and media/communication training whatwedo for relevant workers, and research into alternative education content.

  • International symposium on making “Jageun School” to enable supportive care and self-guided learning
  • Development of Information Rights Index for a healthy Internet ecosystem
  • “Clear Sound” – Internet broadcasting project for the visually impaired
  • “Youth Welfare Recipient Village”
  • Promoted second round of “lezpa” broadcasting and supported “Mapo FM Broadcasting Production Support Project”
  • “Being Friends with Asia”
  • Nepal Child Migrant Worker Media Education Project “You Shoot I Shoot”
  • “Understanding South Korean Society Through Media“
  • “Shoot as You Like!”
  • Visual, photographic culture class for sharing by marginalized youths
  • “Nuriteo Support Project” COM (Communication of Main) to foster ability of young heads of households to accept media
  • “2nd Hurray for Children (a world by children) Film Festival”
  • Project for children and youths to make their own Internet broadcasting stations
  • Let’s communicate with media channel with-communication! “With COM”’
  • Youth humanities debate project, “Hey, We are Going on a Picnic!”
  • Seongmisan 05 “Separately and together”
  • Trial operation of school for training aspiring small business owners and college to train teachers for the school. It aims to facilitate and systematize training for youths to open small businesses
  • Visual culture education for children – “Creativity, Collaboration, Communication”

The “Alternative Perspective Project” jointly hosted by Daum Foundation and Igong, an alternative visual culture development center, seeks to discover activists as screenplay writers, and support production.
This project encourages creative visual code and to experiment with new visual genres. By discovering and supporting writers as proactive culture producers, the project targets developing alternative visual cultures.

The EHARU616 Campaign was launched with the objective of mobilizing Internet users to record and capture information that flows rapidly throughout the Internet in a state of constant flux on June 16 each year, if only on that day.
The Internet evolves at breathtaking pace, but the information there disappears, without being preserved. We believe that the Internet should be recorded and preserved, as do museums and libraries. The information documented through the EHARU616 Campaign will become valuable resources for future generations to get a glimpse of an aspect of the past Internet culture.

The Infortrust Web Awards are designed to collect, evaluate and choose, with the help of Internet users, Internet heritages worthy of preservation from among online information that disappears. In 2005, the Awards were limited to 3 major categories in technology, Internet culture and sociopolitical/civic activism, and 18 sub-categories.
The coverage is scheduled to be expanded and diversified to include video, images, etc.

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 Internet Archive Workshop, co-hosted by the Daum Foundation and the Internet Association of Korea, was the first step towards the establishment of a Korean as well as a global Internet archive. It was designed to discuss cases of overseas Internet archives and open content license, and reach a social consensus on the necessity of the Internet archive.

Cultural Diversity Grant is awarded to research projects and whatwedo.
Research projects include Master’s theses on cultural diversity, while whatwedo include those for empowerment of the minority, that enable expansion of the scope of cultural diversity and understanding of different cultures, and translation and creation of works to promote understanding of cultural diversity.