Vank

VANK

VANK, an acronym for Voluntary Agency Network of Korea, is a non-governmental South Korean organization made up of 60,000 Korean volunteers and 15,000 international members. According to its website, VANK members are Cyber Diplomats to introduce Korea to the world and World Changers to solve global issues wisely to change the world. VANK hopes that Korea will be the hub of Asia and gateway to northeast Asia. It was started in 1999 as a small e-pal site and later it became well known organization that corrects international misrepresentations of Korea.