Hope to the World
2016_Winter 65 issue th
www.globalcare.or.kr Global Care, a self-sustaining nonprofit organization, is leading the international development as a health and medical NGO. Global Care started in South Korea in an effort to provide international and domestic humanitarian assistance, improvement of medical environment and health care projects.
Table of Contents 03 Letter to Sponsors 04 Humanitarian Assistance _ Emergency Relief in Ecuador with Global Care
06 Branch Story 1 _ Monitoring Global Care Nepal
08 Branch Story 2 _ Bangladesh “Now We Have Confidence�
10 Branch Story 3 _ Looking Back at My Activities at Global Care Cambodia
12 Branch Story 4 _ Philippines Project Development Incubating Research Program
13 Awards News _ Awards Received by Global Care
14 Domestic Project _ Draw the Heart. Heal the Heart. - The Story of Art Therapy
16 Festival Story _ The 7th Korea Sharing Festival - "WATER, Cleaner, Clearer"
18 Global Care News 20 Activity News _ Inji Club: Review of Overseas Medical Staff Training Program
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| Cover Story Cambodian girl with beautiful smile
<Paying respects to a girl> - Paying respects to a girl was buried due to Hurricane Matthew / Paul Kim , Country Director of Global Care Haiti Child! Like a flower that once blooms for a while, I thought you were like that. Until you got into a small coffin…. Child! Even when you were sick and cried all night, When you grabbed your starving stomach and slept on the earthen floor, When you stayed up all night in cold rain and wind hitting on a collapsed wall because you did not have a place to lie down, When you vomited after shoveling up fine soil instead of rice, When even maggots hatched on the top of your wounded foot, Child! I thought like that. I thought your life was like that. Like a flower that blooms for a while, Like a flower that blooms as the wind blows and withers as the wind goes I thought they were like a helpless sigh, your lives…. You who were born in a corner of darkness, groaning on a dirty floor without seeing a streak of light, Who never sucked warm milk from your mother, and never wore red shoes You who just wore rags with holes with ragged bare feet and a starved tummy... Born in the mud, played in the mud, and today you laid down quietly under the dirt. Laid silently in the mad rainstorm. Child! Someone said that life is grass blooming for a while. But I wiped with clean linen and put a white dress on you. I put red shoes on you and put a small flower into your hands. Now I float you over the black river of vain. A small wood cradle goes forward quietly making white foam. Leaves flow along. Petals also flow along. A mother bird follows up at a distance. Child! Go now, go far far away. Go to the land without hunger, nakedness, pain, or shame. I am sending you to the end of this river of vain. Child! I am truly sorry. The only thing I can give you is……. a handful of candy and a small flower. * It is devastating. Many events that make us feel like crying out loud are occurring where Global Care stands. Dear sponsors, please be together with Global Care, so that Global Care can weep with those who cry, and that crying can turn into a blossom of hope.* In the midst of a fall that makes people turn up their collar,
Global Care Chairman Yong-Joon Park
Humanitarian Assistance
Munhee Lee, Emergency Relief Coordinator in Ecuador
Emergency Relief in Ecuador with Global Care For me, Ecuador is my second home in which I spent my childhood and high school years as a missionaries' kid. After college, I found myself spending busy days in Korea. Then one day, a great earthquake occurred in Ecuador, and I was horrified by the increasing number of casualties in the news. I wanted to check if my friends in Ecuador were safe, but the internet was out of service after the earthquake. My eyes were moist with tears and all I could do was repeat, "What should I do?". I would leave the next day if it was possible, but all I could do was just worry and feel frustrated that there was nothing I could do for them. Since I was working, going somewhere was not imaginable and even if I had the time, airfare to Ecuador was something I could not bear the expenses of. However, an unexpected opportunity came to me. News that Global Care was in need of a local coordinator in Ecuador came into my ears. I was so excited that there was something 04
I could do for Ecuador, I handed in my resignation without hesitation and focused on preparing for Ecuador. On my way to my home country after such a long time away, I was concerned about how to comfort people with deep sorrow and what I could do for them. However, gifts of learning and comforting were waiting for me. One of the greatest gifts I received was the love from my parents' former disciple and overseas Koreans. I enjoyed a fruit of relationships my parents yielded as missionaries after twenty years of their time. Since I went to bring aid to areas suffering difficulties, I did not expect to receive such consolation. This relief will remain as huge part of my heart for a long time. On the day we distributed food kits to earthquake-stricken people, one of middle aged women came to us and said, "Even though the government turned away from us, the other side of the globe came to help us. God did not forget us!" Such words brought me to tears, and it was an unforgettable day. I gather the hearts of people who grabbed my hand and asked me to send their gratitude, and send their gratitude on behalf of them. I am truly thankful to all of our sponsors for supporting us. Please keep supporting us and praying for the recovery of earthquake-stricken Ecuador. Globalcare 2016 winter 05
Branch Story 1
Dahee Kim, International Project Team
Monitoring Global Care Nepal From August 26th to November 5th, I visited Global Care Nepal to monitor as a KOICA ODA intern. While monitoring Global Care Nepal, I visited Bhumlichowk where construction of a health post (part of the earthquake disaster restoration project) was in progress and observed the Tansen Children's Library which was the most impressive part of the project to me.
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After traveling through 5 hours of a rocky mountain road, I was able to reach Tansen. Tansen was so cool and refreshing that it felt like my few daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of fatigue were melting away. When I reached Tansen Children's Library in Tansen Nursing School with Seonhyo Park (the country director of Global Care Nepal), children started to run toward the country director to greet her. The children, carrying a large bag, ran toward us with big smiles and had a handful of flowers for her. Nausea and fatigue disappeared as I watched children's flowers and chatter and as the country director's eyes filled with love for the children. The Tansen Children's Library provides various after school activities(both recreational activities and school studies) that children is unable to experience elsewhere. At the library, children are able to escape from the slum and spend time under the care of teachers at the safe library. Thanks to the country director and local staffs, the library is taking care of 100 children's lives thoroughly. Monitoring the location was a great opportunity to look at the activities in the actual field that I only had seen second-hand at Global Careâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters. After hearing stories of each child and the positive changes in the lives of not only the children but also the employees, I felt once again that international development is ultimately for "people." I will not forget even after my internship is over that international development is work that puts people in first and brings good changes to people.
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Branch Story 2
Mihong Ahn, Country Director of Global Care Bangladesh
Bangladesh “Now We Have Confidence” Damodorpur Health Care Clinic provides health care and education for pregnant women, children, adolescents, and disabled children in the area. The clinic’s services include family planning, antenatal/postnatal care, neonatal care, sexuality education for adolescents, rehabilitation class for the disabled children, and primary health care. For the last 10 years, Global Care's partner LAMB hospital has trained the CSBAs (Community Skilled Birth Attendants) and supported both the community and the clinic. This year, Damodorpur organized the clinic management committee, and now the committee is overseeing the clinic and its services. In the past, the community thought it needed the constant help of Global Care and LAMB hospital to keep the clinic running. But now the community has realized that it is time to take over the responsibility for the wellbeing of its own. Through Global Care's 'Project of Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development around Badalganj, North-western part of Bangladesh' the community has learned how to plan a good proposal and budget, to fundraise and work as a team. In May's monthly committee meeting, the committee decided to build a wall around the clinic to ensure the safety of the CBSAs working night shifts. The committee members discussed and prepared the proposal and budget plan to complete both fundraising and construction by the end of August. Every member of the committee shared the plan and persuaded the union council, local leaders and with the local elites and financial capitalists.
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As a result, the construction began in July with the help and support of locals and was completed in August. At the beginning of Global Care's project, the community viewed the task to be extremely challenging. Now, the community gained confidence about its capacity, unity and leadership capability. The contribution of union council and locals showed their appreciation to the service of the clinic, which was very encouraging to the clinic. Also, Damodorpur community members thanked Global Care and LAMB hospital for starting the clinic and teaching them how to take care of it. Global Care Bangladesh is doing its best to ensure safe delivery and antenatal/postnatal care, improvement of the quality of life for the disabled and empowerment for community's selfreliance. Please give constant attention to Bangladesh project.
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Branch Story 3
Taehyee Lee, Global Care Cambodia
Looking Back at My Activities at Global Care Cambodia "Arun sour sdei! (Good morning!)" It was awkward to say the greeting 8 months ago, but now I greet others naturally. I recall the day I arrived in Cambodia's airport this past February. The scent, temperature, language and even people were so unfamiliar that it was a challenge to even go for a walk back then. But now I feel like I am quite adapted to life here, since everything is a daily routine now. Although it feels like I had just arrived at Siem Leap Airport yesterday, 8 months have already passed. At first, I came here to seek answers to my life questions and believed that I would find them. However, the deeper I dive into my work here, the further I am drifting apart from the answers. It rather feels that I was more convicted about my work when I made my first step. Although my conviction is lost in questions, I am learning so many things as a volunteer. There is so much to tell that I would not be 10
able to say everything even if I kept talking for 3 nights and days. But I can say this with certainty: without any doubt, everyone here was my mentor. Needless to say, the country director, team manager and colleagues whom I work with, villagers and children whom I met during the visit to the village, patients in harsh conditions whom I met through medical aid, and even an infant silently sleeping in a hammock. Everyone made me look back on whether I'm on the right track. Now, I wake up every day surrounded by a now quite familiar scent of Cambodia and start the day with thankfulness. I am thankful for living under a decent roof and for having a strong and healthy body. I am thankful for being surrounded by people with whom I can laugh and sympathize. And I am also thankful for the opportunity to be able to help others even with my capability. Although new questions are born every day but not the answers, I am still thankful. Every time of pondering makes me improve, and I believe that someday this progress will lead me to interact and synthesize with more people, and eventually allow me to provide more help. I have only a little more time left here in Cambodia, and I will endeavor with intensity to be a better me and thus, return to Korea with a matured-self. Globalcare 2016 winter 11
Branch Story 4
Inae Lee, Global Care Philippines
Philippines Project Development Incubating Research Program Global Care Philippines participated in Project Development Incubating Research Program during September and did a community study on Guiuan, Eastern Samar. For a week, from September 19th, Global Care Philippines conducted general research at Guiuan and surveyed on Homonhon Island, Guiuan. Homonhon Island is at a 3 hoursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ferry crossing distance from Guiuan and ferries once a day, which means the island has poor transportation and is low on infrastructure. There was a hospital in the community that operated several years ago, but it is closed because there is no doctor at the hospital. Thus, Homonhon Island's emergency patients have to go to Guiuan. Homonhon Island consists of 6 barangays*. Out of 6 barangays, we assembled locals from 2 barangays and mapped resources. The locals drew the map of their village and discussed what infrastructures they have and do not have. On September 29th, a week after the community study, we invited Guiuan's stakeholders and held a public hearing. Guiuan health center officials and nurses of Ministry of Health and Welfare were invited to the hearing, and professors from the local gave consultation with the result of the community study. I am hoping for progressing a health project that will empower health system in Guiuan, East Samar.
* Barangay: the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward.
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Awards News
Awards Received by Global Care Dr. Luke Jung, Country Director of Global Care Cambodia, honored by The Korean Orthopaedic Association with Foreign Volunteer Award On October 19th, Dr. Luke Jung, Country Director of Global Care Cambodia, received the Foreign Volunteer Award from The Korean Orthopaedic Association. In honor of its 60th anniversary, The Korean Orthopaedic Association recognized dedicated voluntary medical service with a devoted voluntary ethos and honored Dr. Luke with Foreign Volunteer Award. Starting with domestic and foreign volunteer medical service from 1993, Dr.Luke is preventing water-borne disease and promoting health through 'Health Promotion Project Through Drinking Water/Hygiene, Mobile Clinic Program in Cambodia' as Global Care Cambodia's Country Director.
Dr. Paul Kim, Country Director of Global Care Haiti, honored by KCOC with Republic Of Korea Foreign Volunteer Award KCOC (Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation) is honoring those who enhanced the nation's position by devoting volunteer work and raising participation and interest in International Cooperation to the public in various countries in the world every year from 2006. This year, Dr. Paul's service was recognized, and he received KCOC Presidential citation (one of Republic of Korea Foreign Volunteer Awards) on November 25th. Please give a lot of your attention and support to Dr. Luke, Country Director of Global Care Cambodia, and Dr. Paul, Country Director of Global Care Haiti, and their future works! Globalcare 2016 winter 13
Domestic Project
Sun Kim, Art Therapist of Our Hahaha Program
Draw the Heart. Heal the Heart. - The Story of Art Therapy
For some time now, and through various NGOs, we started to aid and interact with children from all across the world. But if we look around us, there are stil children who are close within our vicinity in need of help just as much as children abroad. Because of their poor home environment, and because of the blind spots of our society, such children are in need of our help. Starting this September, I had the chance of becoming one of the teachers of 'Our Hahaha' program through Global Care and met children from Community Child Care Centers in Geumcheon-gu and Guro-gu. Community Child Care Centers take care of children after school by providing snacks and meals, school studies, field trips, and cultural activities which the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home cannot provide to them. At the Community Child Care Center, there are children from multicultural families and children of single parents who cannot afford to take good care of children. When I met the children for the first time, I learned that many of them had low-self-esteem, were depressed, and needed lots of love and compassion. Last year my art therapist team was able to give continuous emotional support and love through various art therapy sessions to the children in Danwon-gu Community
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Child Care Center in Ansan City. They were directly/indirectly influenced by the disastrous Sewol-ship sinking in 2014. The team provided art therapy sessions once a week during the spring and fall semesters. (More than 10 children per class) Throughout the 20 sessions in total, we witnessed changes in the children. 'Our Hahaha' program in cooperation with Global Care helps 10 or fewer children from each Community Child Care Center with different methods of art therapy and psychological analysis. The program is expected to get good results by understanding and encouraging the children, as well as constantly observing them. As the sessions progress, children are already showing some positive changes. One child who at first only said forced hellos and did not participate is now actively participating in the session. One boy who only listened and followed what his friends did is starting to express his feelings step by step. Only five sessions have passed, but the children are already waiting happily for the session with sincere greetings to the team. I sincerely hope that as the sessions progress further, more positive changes will be made, and the art therapy to have a good influence directly/indirectly on the children's lives. One thing I noticed during the sessions was that most of the children had scarce hopes for the future. They had low self-esteem, could not express themselves clearly and present themselves confidently to the class. This being so, it is important to know their thoughts and wishes through various art therapy activities, making this truly rewarding and meaningful work. There is a saying, 'It takes a whole village to raise a child.' Having the mind that every child is one of our own, everyone in the society has the responsibility to take care of them with love and care. In that sense, I wish to make this program into a program that fulfills children's needs in the future. Globalcare 2016 winter 15
Festival Story
Heuijin Yun, International Project Team
The 7th Korea Sharing Festival
"WATER, Cleaner, Clearer" On October 15th and 16th, perfect autumn days, the 7th Sharing Festival was held at Yeouido park. To celebrate Global Handwashing Day (October 15th), Global Care campaigned on the theme of 'WATER, Cleaner, Clearer' to advocate the situation of the lack of drinking water and poor sanitation environments in Cambodia and Haiti and to fund-raise for the projects to better such situations.
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About 19,000 children under 5 die of pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition (the top 4 causes of death of children under 5) every day worldwide. Half of the deaths are preventable with clean water and the improvement of hygiene. October 15th was declared to be Global Handwashing Day at the UN General Assembly to prevent the death of the children worldwide from various waterborne infections. Global Care is preventing waterborne illnesses and promoting health by implementing 'Health Promotion Project Through Drinking Water/Hygiene, Mobile Clinic Program in Cambodia' and 'La Gonave Disaster (Cholera) Risk Reduction' in Haiti. The campaign participants solved 3 quizzes about water/hygiene, then eradicated waterborne pathogenic bacteria by playing a shooting game. The participants gained knowledge about water and hygiene and Global Care's related projects. By the bacteria eradication game, participants learned about waterborne pathogenic bacteria and importance of water/hygiene. We hope this campaign became an opportunity for participants to take more interest in children dying of waterborne diseases. Please send support to Cambodia's water/hygiene and health improvement project and Haiti's Disaster (Cholera) Risk Reduction project.
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Global Care News
GLOBALCARE NEWS #1 Humanitarian Assistance Haiti Hurricane "Matthew" Emergency Relief After understanding the situation and conducting a needs survey, Global Care Haiti is carrying out Emergency Relief. To 1,500 households, Emergency Relief kits are being distributed and medical assistance is being provided. Currently, there is a serious clean drinking water shortage, and the affected population has no choice but to drink contaminated water, exposing them to cholera and other waterborne diseases. Please send us your continuous attention and support for the suffering people in La Gonave Island.
#2 International Project Completion and Handover Ceremony to the Government of a Health Center in Nepal Global Care is providing a reconstruction of earthquake-damaged health centers and basic healthcare service with local partner NGO Asal Chhimekee Nepal (ACN) in Gorkha district, Nepal. On October 4th, a ceremony was held upon the completion of Bhumlichowk Health Center for a handover to the Nepal government. Before the reconstruction of the health center, under emergency situations, local residents had to either be transported to other areas or be referred to other hospitals. The reconstructed health center will enable approximately 3,205 local residents to receive health services within the area. Currently, the reconstruction in Bhumlichowk is in its final stages and will be operating beginning in mid-December. Currently, additional reconstruction of health centers in other regions (Gyalchowk, Gurung, and Amppipal) are scheduled to be finished by the end of November. Thanks to your support, many people will be able to get health services in Gorkha, Nepal through the reconstructed health centers.
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The Lebanese Ministry of Health Officials Visit Korea From October 19th to 22th, the Lebanese Ministry of Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top consultant, a vice-president of local NGO HOME and Global Care Lebanon's country director, visited Korea. The visit was intended to introduce the advanced Korean medical care and hospital systems previous to the business forum of the Korean Embassy and the local Chamber of Commerce in Lebanon on November 10th. They visited Severance Hospital, Jeisys Medical, Hankook Korus Pham CO LTD factory in Chuncheon, Osong High-tech Medical Complex and MEDICAL KOREA & K-HOSPITAL FAIR 2016.
#3 Domestic Project Art Therapy Program for Children and Adolescents with Emotional Challenges The art therapy program, which is currently undergoing 10 sessions since this September, is a healing activity program for children and adolescents with troubled hearts. "Our HAHAHA" team, consisting of professional art therapists, has prepared interesting and exciting programs to make children and teenagers laugh a little and to express their feelings. Your support is desperately needed to continue this program.
The 20th Anniversary Appreciation Concert of Global Care Date February 9, 2017 6:30 - 9:00 pm Venue Serverance Hospital Eunmyeong Auditorium (Main Building 6th floor) Global Care celebrates its 20th anniversary and would like to invite everyone who was and will be together with Global Care to our concert. We sincerely hope to get a lot of support from you.
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Activity News
Dr. Sengsinh Saeturn
Inji Club: Review of Overseas Medical Staff Training Program My name is Sengsinh Saeturn, and I am an anesthesiologist at Sayaboury Provincial Hospital. Sayaboury Provincial Hospital is at the main of Sayaboury, north of Lao P.D.R. and is responsible for whole general surgery, pediatric, obstetric, emergency, etc. Through the support of Global Care, I was trained at Samsung Medical Center from September 5th to November 18th. The training was about solving airway management in a crisis situation and how to use airway device assistants in both elective and emergency cases. I have thoroughly experienced in the operation room observing both elective and emergency cases which helped me to understand what I had learned. My supervisor Professor Jonghwon Lee and everyone in the hospital were very kind and did their best to help me to understand everything clearly.
Training at Samsung Medical Center improved my knowledge and enabled me to learn new techniques of anesthesia. With what I learned, I am willing to serve our hospital in the future as well. Lastly through the Global Care(Inji Club)'s Overseas Medical Staff Training Program, I am hoping that a confidential relationship between Korea and Laos will be built. Thank you.
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Domestic Project
through Local Medical Staff Training Program and Overseas Medical Staff Training Program.
Global Care Board Members
| Medical support project in community child care center Proceeding with precision health checkups, checkup visits and healthcare education to a community child care center in Guro-gu and Geoumcheon-gu that are having difficulties taking care of children’s health due to financial problems.
| Clean water project To prevent and solve the problem of drinking water problems and waterborne diseases, we are developing and supplying natural water purifiers (that can be used permanently) which do not require electricity and filter replacement.
Byung-Soo Kim
| International child support project Providing holistic healthcare and education support to help children to have hopes and dreams by connecting a one-to-one sponsorship with underprivileged children who are suffering from worldwide poverty, disease, and war.
(Professor at Yonsei University’s college of medicine)
| Medical support project for underprivileged people Health mobile clinics and activities for the underprivileged. | Member hospitals Providing direct medical services through member hospitals by volunteers as free mobile clinics and overseas emergency relief.
Overseas Project | Community medical environment improvement projects Operating a clinic in underdeveloped areas with insufficient medical facilities to improve medical services’ accessibility and mobile clinics. Global Care is actively involved in the project for local residents’ health and hygiene education. | Medical expenses support project Supporting medical expenses of global villagers who are having financial problems and living in distant regions from hospitals. | Children with congenital facial deformities surgery project Since 1997, a domestic plastic surgery team visits regularly every year to operate on children with facial deformities such as cleft lip and palate. Also, the team helps the local medical personnel to operate themselves
| Mobile tuberculosis project Empowering the project management capacity of tuberculosis using mobile health in Morocco. The project helps the patients to take TB medication and ensures systems laying the patient management system of central state through data processing. In addition, it also runs the local health personnel and community health education. | Humanitarian Assistance Projects (Emergency Relief) Abroad When disasters occur in a village abroad, we dispatch emergency medical relief teams to refugees who are suffering from diseases and epidemics to provide relief supplies, medical and recovery support. (Sichuan in China, Haiti, Myanmar, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Turkey, Kosovo, the Philippines, Lebanon, Nepal, Jordan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, etc.)
Chairman (Former president of Yonsei University)
Board members Ki-Won Kim (Head of K.elim)
Dongs-Soo Kim Soon-Nam Kim (Head of Yonsei T’nT’n Pediatric Center)
Woo-Kyung Kim (Professor at Korea University’s college of medicine)
Ji-Won Do (Pastor of Jesus-Vision church)
Myong-chul Park (Professor at Aju University’s college of medicine)
Yong-Joon Park (Head of Globalcare Clinic)
Eun-Chan Paik (Head of Bundangcheil women’s hospital)
Myung-Soo Lee (Head of Yonsei Lee Myung-Soo dental clinic)
Woo-Taek Jeon (Professor at Yonsei University’s college of medicine)
Sung-Uk Choo (Head of Choo Sung-Uk dental hospital)
Ui-Ho Hwang (Professor at Yonsei University’s college of medicine)
Auditors Chun-Bae Kim
(Professor at Yonsei University’s college of medicine – Wonju campus)
Seung-Ki Jang (Head of Yonsei Neukkimpyo dental clinic)
Domestic Dispatching emergency medical relief team to the area due to natural disasters (forest fires, floods, typhoons, etc.).
is International humanitarian medical NGO which is providing international and domestic humanitarian assistance, carrying out projects to improve medical environment and health care. Global Care has headquarters in Korea, and established 8 overseas branches to help those in need. E-mail. give@globalcare.or.kr | www.globalcare.co.kr | https://www.facebook.com/GlobalCareGive
The date of issue 2016.11.28 Publisher Yong-Joon Park Issued place Global Care Planning&Editing Public Relations Team Design Minyoung Jo Address #302, Woolim e-Biz center 1st, 28, Digital-ro 33-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea, 08377 Tel 02)6959-0333 Fax 070)4032-2709