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.
By Pia Rufino
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