Name System in Korea

If you read my previous post, you might know that Korean use their last name to identify their family relation. But yet, just last name is in fact not enough to identify your family relation. As I told you on the previous post, Kim, is the most famous last name, but then of course not every Kim knows each other and not every Kim related to each other. What am I trying to say here is there is one specification to determine which family relation one Korean from, it is called 본관 (Bongwan) which means the origin of one's ancestor. I got this knowledge from Korean culture class which sadly I got pretty disappointed grade on it ㅠㅠ. Anyway, each Kim might have different Bongwan which makes them different each other. For example, there is a person whose last name is Kim and his 본관 is from, I don't know, Daejeon for example will have no family relation with a person whose last name is also Kim but from different Bongwan. So, basically there is a term for this called 동성동본 (dong seong dong bon) which means same last name, same bongwan. And why is this important? because in the Korea's law about marriage, it is stated that a person can not get married with it's relative(same last name same bongwan) within 8촌 (chon), and that makes me have to explain what chon is. Chon is really complicated, I, myself even still now kind of confused, but let me try explaining by a graph here.

You can try to understand the graph but it is king of complicated. Mom and Dad is 0, and then parents to child is 1, then child and child (brothers/sisters) is 2, then uncle and nephew is 3, cousins is 4, the graph goes on until 8 chon, now within 8 chon, a korean cannot get married each other based on law.

Learn much? I will continue later :)

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인천, 한국

포맨 후회한다

Been listening to this song lately ... I always like 4 Men



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IU Waiting and Panic Waiting

For you who ever watch korean drama Dream High, you must know this song. I really love this song :). And then I found that this song is actually has been sung by Panic (패닉) which has two members Lee Jeok (이적) as vocal and Kim Jin Pyeo(김진표) as rap.
http://music.naver.com/artist/home.nhn?artistId=1537


I like IU version more, though :)
Enjoy!!

Angga
Incheon, South Korea

Family name in South Korea

Hello readers,

I know it's been a while since I post something on this blog. I have many reasons to not be able to write anything here but mostly because I was really busy of school. And now that semester is over, I can continue writing :).

Alright, during semester I took this really interesting class which actually my interest in this class did not give me my expected grade (it destroyed the beauty of my grade!!!!!) nevertheless, I got much much better knowledge which I think the sweetest thing in taking this class. This class was Korean Culture for International Student. Yup, I loved this class. You know, the first year i was here i thought i had enough of this korea thing. Like, i have been to many places in Korea, an island, museums, amusement parks, (just) parks, universities, coffee cafe, restaurants, shopping malls, traditional markets, traditional village, sleep in traditional house, etc ... but this class gave me something fresh, really crunchy like cookies from the oven.

This is one interesting lesson. About family name in korea. As you might know, there are a lot of Kim(s) in korea, and yeah from this class I became to know that in fact, Kim is on number one in the list of family names in korea, here are the top 10:

1. 김 (Kim)
2. 이 (Lee)
3. 박 (Park)
4. 최 (Choi)
5. 정 (Jung)
6. 강 (Kang)
7. 조 (Jo)
8. 윤 (Yoon)
9. 장 (Jang)
10. 임 (Im)

isn't it interesting? ... no? hahah anyway, I guess I will post many interesting things that I have learned from this class. And regardless, I am back!!!

Merry Christmas for whoever celebrate it :)

Angga

Incheon, South Korea

Hello readers,

As you might have notice I have changed the theme of my blog. It is now more general which means that it is no longer specialized in korea stuff. Anyhow, I am still posting about korea stuff too.

Inha University | 인하대학교

On February 28, I officially registered as a student in Inha University majoring in Information Engineering which definitely will be changed by me to Computer Engineering when I go to the second year. Inha University is small in size, but I see no problem with it, since it decrease the distance from where I live to where I study. I stayed in dormitory for 1 semester, now I live outside. Let's start from the dormitory.

Inha has 2 dormitories, maybe more, there are 2 that I know. The first one is located in front of the main gate of Inha called Ungbijae, and the second one is located, you can say, beside Inha university called biryongjae. As the second one is the newest, it offers better living experience than the first one, but of course it's kind of more expensive.

http://site.inha.ac.kr/dorm/

GO to the dormitory page, and you can experience the panorama view of both dormitory.

As I am a student majoring in Information Engineering, I always go to this building called Hi-Tech. It is 15 floors building near the back gate. And if you go outside through the back gate, you'll see heaven :).

Now that the first semester is over. I got nice grade :). 

www.inha.ac.kr

PS: Do you know that my university is the best university in computer field? :)
Check this out ... http://eng.inha.ac.kr/intro/news_view.asp?pIdx=498&pGroup=31

2011년06월26일

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U-Kiss 0330 and Me?

Kyaaa it's been like forever since last time I posted something in this blog

ㅠㅠ now its like usang dan berdebu ... saatnya di isi!!!

Well, my friend told me that I look like one of the members of U-Kiss .. and i was like .. really? hahah

check this song, its g-o-o-d ...

annnddd  can u guess who do i look like with? hahah

2011년05월27일
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WSK Stories of the Month - We sell Korean ‘Jeong’ (정) to the world

Korean corporations, which have been key players in the Korean economy, are now taking a prominent role in nongovernmental diplomacy. The works vary from eradication of poverty and hunger to establishment of schools and libraries. These projects are not the one-off event, but very substantial and specific aid since they involve the interaction with local people and keep providing them with services, which are urgent. Here are some aspects of ‘Affectionate Korea’ in the world.

‘Springtime of my hometown’, a Korean children’s song echoed in Indonesia
A familiar song is heard from Elementary School Menteng in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesian students sing a Korean children’s song ‘Springtime of my hometown’ to the piano accompaniment. It sounds strange to hear a song sung in Korean at a local school of Indonesia not at Korean schools.
 

Lee Joong-keun(right), the chairman of Booyoung Co., Ltd., handing the certificate of donation of 10,000 units of digital piano to Muhammad Nuh, the Minister of Education, Indonesia

(Photo: Korea Land Daily)
 

It is because Booyoung Co., Ltd., a construction company of Korea, donated 10,000 digital pianos and 30,000 blackboards to the ministry of education in Indonesia last month. Moreover, Korean ‘Graduation song’ (Lyrics: Yoon Suk-joong, Song: Jeong Soon-chul) is translated into Indonesian and saved in all of the digital piano for the Indonesian students since there is no song for graduation ceremony in some countries of the South East Asia. The song will be played during the graduation ceremony in this June.

In addition, there are popular Korean folksongs and children‘s songs contained in the digital piano. They are recorded in Korean, not in the local languages, and thus the students of Elementary School Menteng could learn not only the songs but also Korean, which contributes to making the music class more interesting.

Booyoung Co., Ltd. has established approximately 600 elementary schools in the South East Asia such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, East Timor, Malaysia and Sri Lanka so far and plans to expand the support into the Philippines, Myanmar, even Australia and New Zealand. Lee Joong-keun, the chairman of Booyoung said “we hope the donation of digital piano could encourage cultural exchanges and promote amity between Korean and Indonesia” and “we will strive to support the educational environment in addition to cultural exchanges so that students could keep pursuing their studies”, he added. The kind-hearted contribution of a company enables children to keep studying and dreaming.
 

1.5-ton truck conveying ‘Ghanaian children’s dream’

On 11th November 2010 the school of Oduponkpehe in Awutu Senya district, which is approximately 25 km away from Accra, the capital city of Ghana, was in a festive mood from the morning. It was the day when the inaugural ceremony of the children’s library and mobile library for children in rural areas was held.

The library of the school of Oduponkpehe renovated from the 82.5㎡ interior has about 3,500 books including children’s books, reference books for English, mathematics, and computer.

The mobile library in Ghana, Africa sponsored by STX Corporation.

It is remodelled from a 1.5-ton truck

In the urban areas of Ghana the standard of living is generally good and the accessibility to library is quite easy while in the rural areas the book distribution rate is very low due to the poor condition of road and transportation on top of a small number of libraries. The mobile library system is introduced to resolve this problem and the library of the school of Oduponkpehe will take a pivotal role in the system. The mobile library remodelled from a 1.5-ton truck will visit 24 schools in the rural areas including Koforidua and Kumasi as well as the capital city, Accra and provide service for 27,000 children from low-income families. Not only does it lend books but also organises various programmes such as book report contest.

Establishment of the children’s library and mobile library in Ghana is a part of the global contribution projects carried out by a Korean company, STX Corporation. STX Corporation is leading to cultivate talented international students through establishing libraries for children from multi-cultural families in Korea, and awarding a scholarship of 3 million Chinese yuan to honour students from 5 universities in 3 provinces of Northeast China. STX Corporation hopes to contribute to the long-term advancement of Korea by means of education.

Have you heard of ‘Lotte School’?

Lotte Department Store has transformed Son Ky middle school in the remote area of Vietnam after the 15-month renovation work. That is why the villagers call it ‘Lotte School’.

Hyundai Motor is promoting an environmental project, ‘Hyundai Green Zone’, which aims for reforestation of desert areas in China. The first target is Chakanor area within the Kunshantag desert in Inner Mongolia, China. The area is gradually losing pasture and turning into the salt desert due to desertification and strong alkaline soil. To prevent this process, Hyundai Motor plans to create a large scale of grassland by 2012, seeding indigenous plants that grow well on the alkaline soil.

Korean corporations would like to be a sincere friend to the world, delivering heart-warming ‘Jeong’ through their international Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.
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                                                                                                                 ⓒ코리아브랜드

PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #36. I was one of the members of WSK batch 3 and I would like to continue sharing their articles through my blog.

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WSK Stories of the Month - Kim Nam-Joo, Throws Herself into ‘Concept Korea' with Enthusiasm

The third Concept Korea will be held at the David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center, New York on the coming 15th (local time). The event takes place during the New York Fashion Week season featuring four groups of designers from Korea sponsored by the Korean government to represent the exceptional fashions of Korea. As an upgraded version of the past two Concept Koreas, this time a wide range of additional events supporting promotion will be offered.

New York Fashion Week is one of the four major international fashion collections leading the world fashion industry. It is more a commercial-oriented fashion show, featuring merchandisable fashion to lead the market than boldly experimenting with trends. This year the week runs from February 10th to 17th at the Lincoln Center; and ‘CONCEPT KOREA, Cultural Treasures 2011’ brings the fashion designs of Korea to the international stage, where all leading figures of the fashion market gather to enjoy the season. The project, accompanying various promotional marketing activities, is sponsored by the Republic of Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), Daegu Metropolitan City, the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), and the Korean Research Institute for Fashion Industry (KRIFI) to advance the Korean fashion industry into the world market.

Concept Korea Ⅱ fashion show (photo: Naver blog)

When such efforts can successfully support Korean designers to create global brands joining the international fashion market with other world-renowned labels, the national competitiveness of Korea can be enhanced while acknowledged for its original fashion trends. Promotion is necessary for those talented designers to join the market; however it is difficult for many full-time designers to put much effort into marketing and promotion. Thus with support from government and private sectors, the Korean fashion can move a step closer to win more opportunities introducing its original trend of fashion to the world.

Indigo blue spreads into New York

Designers of Concept Korea Ⅲ: Choi Bum Suk, Yoni P, Steve J,

Lie Sang Bong, and DO HO (from left to right)

This year’s theme for Concept Korea is ‘Cultural Treasures,’ planning to feature designs inspired by traditional Korean cultures by four designer groups, DO HO, Lie Snag Bong, Steve J & Yoni P and Choi Bum Suk. The profound and mysterious indigo blue of the celadon porcelain will be transferred to the garments and the showroom portraying the graceful sensibilities of Korea. The indigo of the celadon may enchant the eyes of the West with its elegant and sophisticated beauty from the East, Korea.

The designers have prepared about forty pieces of work for the collection and the Concept Korea staffs prepared additional events to better promote Korean culture. This was planned from feedbacks on the past two Concept Koreas, which did not fully explore the resources and opportunities ending the event with a single show.

(photo: Naver blog)

After the forty-minute length fashion show, a list of interesting events with reception introducing Korean food, music, performance, and IT is held. Visitors can relax and get better understandings on Korea while enjoying fusion Korean food provided as part of the ‘Taste of Korea’ project led by the Korean Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. An internationally recognized chef Tom Colicchio has prepared a special fusion Korean dish and makgeolli (Korean rice wine) for this occasion expected to attract more attention from the Western people.

Reaching out for new business opportunities

As the primary mission of the event is for the Korean fashion industry to enter the global market, a room showcasing the collections for potential business partners was arranged. In Chelsea Meatpacking district a public showroom was set up for ten days starting from February 14th to 23rd. Here the four designer groups from Korea shows each fifty pieces of their design welcoming foreign buyers. Especially, bringing Korea’s IT technology to the space, the showroom is ready to surprise the visitors and buyers from the entrance spot winning local attention among other designers participating the New York Fashion Week.

National and international promotion is a significant key to win success paying back the long efforts put into. Kim Nam-Joo, the Korean fashion icon celebrity was commissioned as honorary ambassador for Concept Korea Ⅲ and fashion magazines including Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and influential American presses such as CNN, New York Times, New York Daily News will report the third Concept Korea stage.

Smart Phone applications providing information on Concept Korea Ⅲ will be distributed and SNS marketing will be actively developed. Twitter and Facebook contents (serviced in English) and appointed fashion reporters will introduce the New York fashion week agenda, events and selected designers followed by additional services. Thanks to such supports you would be well informed about the show without a need to fly to New York.

Let’s hope the fashion show to end as a great success promoting talented Korean designers on world stage and further work as a stepping stone for the Korean fashion industry advancing into the international market.
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                                                                                                                ⓒ코리아브랜드

PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #36. I was one of the members of WSK batch 3 and I would like to continue sharing their articles through my blog.

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The Korea Blog

I was the 3rd batch member of WSK (World Students in Korea) blogging program. And now I am selected as one of members of the first batch of The Korea Blog. Happy ^^

Congratulations for the other selected winners :)
http://blog.korea.net/?p=1767

About The Korea Blog --> Here.

2011년 2월 27일
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Another Story Has Just Begun

February 25, 2010

Finally moved to Inha University in Incheon. I am gonna live with other 3 people and all of them are Korean. Two of them are majoring in Business and one of them is majoring in Electronic. I met one today, he likes basket ball and other sports. His name is류형훈 and he is one of the two whose major is Business. I played basket ball with him for 20 minutes today.

So far so good, despite the fact that the shower room is public which I find it kind of uncomfortable, but I will get over it. The area is really nice, the view is awesome, food is really close. I like my dormitory even though CNU dormitory is still better. But socially, I think it would be better in here, knowing that I will live with other 3 people.

I want to go around the universities ... I'll post the report later :D

2011년 2월 26일

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Congratulations for the Noonas

February 25, 2011

That day was the graduation day of Chungnam National University's students. Before going to Incheon to move, I went to meet one of my friends who graduated that day. And unexpectedly I also met my other friend who is also graduated.

It's weird ... I am supposed to graduate this year, too ... hahah, but far from being graduated, mine has just begun.

Me and 은정누나

Mas Edvan and 혜진 누나

Congratulations ...
for making me envy you ㅠㅠ

2011년 2월 26일
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Good Bye Chungnam National University | 충남대학교 안녕!!

Main gate of Chungnam National University

March 30 2010 is the date of my arrival to Korea, I started my study of Korean language in Chungnam National University. And now, February 23 2011, I left Chungnam National University (CNU). Here, I would like to write something about CNU.

As a language student, I studied in Language Center of CNU. Located near by the main gate of CNU, it's a five stories building with I think a really nice lounge room, but ... most of PCs in the lounge room is not working. For Korean classes there are up to 6 level offered. From my experience some teacher are really cool and easy going, but just like a coin, there are also some teacher who a lil bit insufficient in bringing up the class to be lil bit interesting. There are also good staff who will help foreigners who need help.

CNU Language Center

Overall, CNU is a large scale university and the dormitory is really good, but then for me I am not really satisfied with the food that they provide. Since I am a muslim and I can't eat pork. Some Koreans that I know said that the fee to study in CNU is cheaper since it is one of national universities. There are also some exchange students from several countries come to CNU to study for at least 1 semester.

Anyway, I am leaving CNU, I decided to continue my bachelor study in Inha University in Incheon. Enough for CNU ... let me leave the good memories and the bad ones, too ... just there.

2011년 2월 24일

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3 Days Ski Tour: Gangneung - YongPyong Ski Resort

Hosted by The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, supervised and run by Korea Ski Resort Business Association, and sponsored by Gangwon Province, Asian students who study in Korea got a chance to experience Ski in YongPyong Resort. Not only ski, we also visited some tourist attraction places in Gangwon province. But before, when we arrived at Gangneung city, I was so shocked by the thickness of the snow. It is so thick that the parking lot turned into car graveyard.

Alright, let's go to the first stop, which is 문화예술관 [Munhwayesulgwan] where we enjoyed Gangneung Gwanno Mask Drama, a kind of play without verbal action and the players wear masks. The story was like romance story where a guy falls in love with a lady, but then the other guys interfere their relationship.

You don't go to Gangneung if you don't watch this :).

The next place is Gangneung Songyojang, I don't know why we went to this place, because I think there was nothing special with this place, maybe it was because there was nobody explained about what kind of place is this. Anyway, the whole place was covered by thick snow, it was kind of cool, though.

The next place was kind of cool and like not Korean style at all. It was a museum of Charmsori Gramophone Museum. There were a lot of sound instruments, but also there were Edison's inventions like lights, etc. It was something.

and Finally we arrived at YongPyong resort where we spent 2 nights there. The place was really good and cozy. The room was very big and comfortable. And we were ready for the next day to play ski :)

Green Pia, where we stayed for 2 nights

I stayed with 2 malaysian, they were nice roommates. The next day was the day! we played ski. Actually it was not the first time for me, but I took the lesson anyway because it's been 2 years since the last time I played my first ski. The arena was ok, nothing really special though, just a regular ski arena. If you don't have clothes for skiing, they rent it for KRW15,000 and if you need gloves, they sell it for KRW10,000. There are also restaurants and other facilities like game center, PC center, convenience store, it's kind of cool.

This is where you borrow the ski equipment

This is Ski wear rental

Ski Pole

Ski Plate

Learning to play ski is not that difficult, you just have to be brave and believe that everything is gonna be ok -even actually sometimes it could be really not ok- hahah.

At night, we were having this contest, so everybody could participate but just some of us are brave enough to participate. Most of them sang a song, I think just one person danced. Anyway, one of Indonesians sang Umbrella which is sung by Rihanna, and she actually got KRW100,000, the winner is the Philippine team^^.

Anyway, it was a really nice experience. The one who organized this trip actually said that even though we are from different countries but still we are Asian, and it makes us a family :).

The person in the middle is the one who organized this trip

More pictures here.

Links:

Korea Ski Resort Business Association

YongPyong Resort

Gangwon Province

2011년 2월 20일

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WSK Stories of the Month - Korean Mushrooms Occupies the Tables of the Swiss

The superior species and high production quality of Korean mushroom is proved through its great texture and taste, already having been renown overseas. Today Korean mushrooms have attracted the Swiss people being one of their favorite dishes.

Korean mushrooms spotlighted as high-quality food

Jelomli, a grand department store of Zurich, the largest city in Swiss has Korean mushrooms on their sales list, sold at the lower ground grocery section, along with a variety of other raw mushrooms. Here Korean king oyster mushrooms are sold by 30-40 franc per kilogram, quite expensive which is equivalent to 35,000 ~ 47,000 won in Korean dollars.

Swiss people, on sunny days, often enjoy barbeque parties with their family and friends sharing grilled meat and sausages, and the Korean king oyster mushrooms as the only vegetable to be added on the main grill list. Taken as a high-quality food item, the king oyster mushrooms are enjoyed for its bigger size and thick texture that is much suitable for a grill party compared to button mushrooms.

In Swiss, now it is not that difficult to meet these mushrooms from Korea in Swiss as they are not only supplied to department stores but also to Migros, the largest supermarket franchise in Swiss.

King oyster mushroom and filet mignon, a menu of Alt Swiss Chalet,

a Swiss restaurant in Itaewon, Korea (Photo: Naver blog)

In Swiss, mushrooms are widely enjoyed by the people being one of the most popular food often used as an ingredient for sauces or even as main dishes. Regarding the sales of button mushrooms the amount of its consumption are 13,000 tons annually; 8,000 tons of raw mushrooms and 5,000 tons of cooked mushrooms. Here 7,000 tons of raw mushrooms are produced in Swiss and the import! rate of the total market consists of 15 percent. The Swiss people do seem to favor mushrooms a lot!

Cannot imagine a life without mushrooms!

  The Swiss people in love with mushrooms

Even the economic crisis did not stop the Swiss fondness for mushrooms. In the second half of 2008 when the economic situation was not favorable, consumers did not cease to spend money on mushrooms. In 2009, rather the total consumption increased adding 300 tons compared to the former year. In fact, the fastidious Swiss customers looking for the best qualities seem to continuously increase the needs for fresh mushrooms.

Button mushroom is the most largely produced and consumed one in Swiss, which is a very traditional kind. However, Asian kinds started to receive attention along with the rising popularity of foreign mushroom species. These days foreign mushrooms that have been introduced during the 1980~1990s including shiitake, king oyster mushroom, grifola frondosa are now receiving some spotlight. Especially shiitake is enjoying popularity being ranked second in the consumer preference.

It may be no surprise that Korean mushrooms with high quality and taste has successfully created its market in Swiss. It had past 3~4 years since Korean king oyster mushrooms joined the dishes of the Swiss dining table.

Now the annual amount of mushroom import!s are over two hundred million Korean won. This was possible by both continuous efforts put to improving species and through quality control.

In 2009 renowned chefs from all over the world have visited Korea to participate in the ‘Amazing Korean Table,’ and Korean mushroom was used by all chefs. A variety of mushrooms were grilled or slightly boiled to be used as ingredients or become the main dish itself.

The taste and flavor of Korea mushrooms seems to prove its real worth no matter where it is. As the Swiss fondness for mushroom continues the future of the Korean mushroom overseas market is expected to be positive; we hope to create a broader international market, in addition to Swiss, for all consumers who want high quality mushrooms.

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PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #35. I was one of the members of WSK batch 3 and I would like to continue sharing their articles through my blog.

www.koreabrand.net

WSK Stories of the Month - The Medical Service Project Shares New Life and Hope!

Do you know much about the congenital heart disease? The disease is due to abnormal heart development before birth that requires postnatal medical treatment. It may lead to premature death if no appropriate surgery is operated, however a successful surgery can grant a new healthy life to a child.

Regrettably, there are many people who are in need of medical surgery but not all receive the opportune treatment. The high costs and lack of professional medical hospitals are doubling the burden. Fortunately, movements of medical support for the global neighborhood have been started, the ‘Korea Medical Service Share Project’ being one of them.

The Korean government financially supports children of neighboring undeveloped regions suffering from the lack of medical facilities by paying all expenses on their visit to Korea for medical treatment; Private medical institutions support the medical expenses by offering voluntary surgical operations. This year’s first patient is Danilya, a young boy from Russia.

A new life to a six-year-boy Danilya

The level of medical treatment of Korea is well recognized on the international level. The number of foreigners visiting Korea for medical surgery or treatment is increasing and every year new surgery method of Korea and its successful cases are introduced overseas.

The Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare has developed a project to position Korea as a global healthcare leader and promote voluntary services overseas.

The project is significant for being a public-private collaboration case while the Korean government provides financial aids covering flight fees and expenses during the stay and medical institutions covers the medical expenses. This year’s budget is 250,000,000 Korean won, which will be used to cure fifteen patients from the neighbors of Korea including China, Russia, Kazakhstan and so on.

Danilya, a six-year-old boy from Havarovsk, Russia was the first patient to meet the Korea Medical Service Share Project. Danilya was diagnosed as congenial heart disease and ventricular septal defect however the family could not afford a surgery and in fact no hospitals specializing in heart disease could be found near the village. It was grateful to receive Irina’s - the mother’s joy and appreciation when she heard the good news from Korea about the medical and financial support.

Sejong Hospital, specializing in heart disease, was responsible for the young boy’s surgery this time. The hospital has conducted about 900 free medical operations for children from twenty nations including Russia, China, Vietnam, and Iraq for the last twenty-nine years bringing new life to them. The hospital explains that it is time for Korea to give back the help it has received from their neighbors in the past and this medical service project could be one example of it.

Sharing the advanced medical technology of Korea with Russia

Doctors from overseas for training, observes liver transplant and heart surgery

conducted by Korean surgeons at major Hospitals of Korea

The operation process of Danilya was covered by RTR, the Russian public broadcasting media and will be broadcasted across Russia in March. ‘Pulse,’ RTR’s self-produced medical documentary program that usually deals with new trends in the medical field e.g. modern medical science, diagnosis and diverse diseases, and new medical treatments, will feature the story on Danilya in three parts. This may as well be a good opportunity for Korea to introduce its advanced medical technology.

In fact, RTR did not only take report of Danilya’s surgery but also covered the current medical technology for cancer, cardiac and vascular diseases, oriental medicine, brain and spine treatment of Korea in depth, introducing the excellence of Korean medical technology.

The medical team of Korea University Anam Hospital is attaching a robot arm

to a patient that will work as a real arm (photo: The Joongang Daily)

The Korea Medical Service Share Project will actively continue to support the young patients of China, Kazakhstan and so on. ‘Medical Korea,’ a medical institution to operate free surgery, will be established and promoted through the local media. ‘Global Medical Service Share Corps’ program supported by Hanlyu celebrities will be carried out as well. We expect the project would gradually expand its activity reaching out to more regions and covering more diseases to be cured.

The project embraces the idea of coexistence and the global community. It is grateful for both, Korea who can be help and its neighbors who calls for help – the young children suffering from illness, and the parents who need support to afford medical treatment. A better global community can be upheld by being help for those who need a hand, and this project can be one way to practice the idea. We hope to see more medical institutions willing to donate their excellence in medical technology to bring new lives to our neighbors.
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PS: This article is taken from the WSK Newsletter #35. I was one of the members of WSK batch 3 and I would like to continue sharing their articles through my blog.

www.koreabrand.net