Date:12/08/11
The Ministry of Public Administration and Security in Korea has opened a new website to provide online video chat to multicultural families to aid communication with family members living in overseas. This web-based video chatting systems is dedicated to video reunions will be built in Information Network Villages in the country, equipped with LCD TVs, speakers, and webcams, in order to allow immigrants to video chat at all times from the nearest locations. The ministry is also providing monitors and web cameras to 365 multicultural centres to allow people without home computers a place to access the service. They will also publish a guide book on how to use the chat program. An opening event was held for the chat service website early this year at the Baekhak Information Network Village in Yeoncheon County. Minister of Public Administration and Security Maeng Hyung Kyu said that this video chat service will very useful to multicultural families who cannot visit with overseas family members often. The Information Network Village project is designed to reduce the digital divide between rural and urban areas of Korea by enabling villagers to access rich content in areas such as education, medicine, commerce, and government and to buy and sell local products over the Internet.
Korea provides video chat service for multicultural families
The Ministry of Public Administration and Security in Korea has opened a new website to provide online video chat to multicultural families to aid communication with family members living in overseas. This web-based video chatting systems is dedicated to video reunions will be built in Information Network Villages in the country, equipped with LCD TVs, speakers, and webcams, in order to allow immigrants to video chat at all times from the nearest locations. The ministry is also providing monitors and web cameras to 365 multicultural centres to allow people without home computers a place to access the service. They will also publish a guide book on how to use the chat program. An opening event was held for the chat service website early this year at the Baekhak Information Network Village in Yeoncheon County. Minister of Public Administration and Security Maeng Hyung Kyu said that this video chat service will very useful to multicultural families who cannot visit with overseas family members often. The Information Network Village project is designed to reduce the digital divide between rural and urban areas of Korea by enabling villagers to access rich content in areas such as education, medicine, commerce, and government and to buy and sell local products over the Internet.
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