Kim Jangho

The Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) was launched in 1971 as an arm of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. It serves as a communication bridge to promote Korea overseas, to shed light on international cultural exchanges and to bring that news back to the Korean audience. Toward this end, we report on all of the Korean government's ongoing policies, on all the president's summit meetings and on all types of international cooperation. In addition, we also host art performances, exhibits, music festivals and film festivals. Finally, we also reach out to opinion leaders worldwide, to the international press, academia and to artists from around the globe. Korea.net is a government web portal that promotes Korea online. It provides up-to-date information about Korea across a variety of fields, including government policies, international cooperation, cultural developments, the arts, history, social movements, science, technology, business, sports and so on. We do so in nine languages: English, simplified Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, French, German and Vietnamese. Korea.net has been strengthening communication with its online readers worldwide through various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Flickr. In particular, Korea Clickers, our Facebook profile, has more than 600,000 followers as of March 2020, becoming one of the most popular government social media profiles in Korea. Korea.net engages in active communication with its neighbors around the world through its team of Honorary Reporters and its overseas columnists.