Jan 1999 – Started with personal website for pen-pal lovers
May 1999 – Built prkorea.com website
Nov 2001 – Established as non-profit organization to introduce Korea to the world
Jan 2002 – Started 9 projects to introduce Korea to the world
April 2002 – Appointed as Children’s Peace Ambassador by Korean National Commission for UNESCO
Nov 2002 – Won presidential award in Promotion of Korea by 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup Council
Dec 2002 – Won presidential award in Correcting Distorted information on Korea by Korean Culture and Information Service
Dec 2002 – Won Korea Tourism Award by Korea Tourism Organization
Dec 2003 – Won National Assembly Award by National Assembly of Korea
April 2004 – Published a book, ‘Cyber Diplomat, VANK’ with Haneon publishing company.
Dec 2004 – Won Catholic Media Award
April 2005 – Started a project to train public servants, soldiers, teachers and more as public diplomats
April 2005 – Started a project to build social club in elementary, middle and high schools by members of VANK
Oct 2005 – Published a book for leaders of social clubs
Oct 2005 – Won presidential award in Diplomacy and Unification by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Nov 2005 – Started a project to build human network for overseas Koreans
Dec 2005 – Started Asia Peace Project
Jan 2006 – Started co-operation works with local governmental bodies
Mar 2007 – Became a member of National Image Branding Council
Apr 2007 – Built French, Spanish, German and Arabic websites
Jul 2007 – Started World Changer Project
Nov 2007 – Built Italian, Thai and Indonesian websites
Apr 2008 – Became a Honorary Ambassador of Seoul
May 2008 – Built Gwanggaeto Project to help Koreans who need printed materials about Korea
Sep 2008 – Became a Honorary Ambassador of Jikji, the oldest movable metal type printed book
Oct 2008 – Built National Branding project via web 2.0 technologies
Oct 2008 – Won Special Award by Gyeongsangbukdo provincial governments
Apr 2009 – Built Cyber Dokdo Academy website
Jun 2009 – Won presidential award in Information and Culture by Ministry of Public Administration and Security
Jun 2009 – Won Seoul Tourism Award by Seoul Metropolitan government
Sep 2009 – Built World Changer project website in Korean
Apr 2010 – Won Yi Sun-sin Award by Gyeongsangnamdo provincial government
May 2010 – Won Creative Human Award by Jungang daily news agency
Sep 2010 – Built Global History Diplomatic Academy website
Nov 2010 – Built World Changer project website in English at theworldchanger.net
Mar 2012 – Renewed Korean language website of VANK
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