The National Folk Museum of Korea recently upgraded the website for its Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes, a series of multicultural promotion programs. The new website now provides information about seven countries, including China.
The government's Kkureomi (꾸러미) Culture Discovery Boxes, part of its multicultural promotion program, can now be accessed online more conveniently and with access to more information and features.
With the goal of increasing accessibility, the National Folk Museum of Korea recently upgraded the website for its Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes (http://culturebox.nfm.go.kr), what it has dubbed its “moving museums,” a multicultural promotion program.
Along with the new website, the museum has expanded its online services by including the China Box that the museum developed last year.
Users can now access Culture Discovery Boxes for Mongolia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines, as well as China.
Visitors to the homepage can discover the contents of each set of boxes for each of the seven countries. Each box is composed of books, study material and examples of a few cultural heritage items. The boxes introduce information about the country, ranging from the natural environment and food, through to clothing, housing, holidays and folk games, using photos, videos and e-books, among other types of media.
The new website is particularly useful for multicultural educational settings, where young learners may have limited access to actual Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes themselves, as it provides all the educational material online.
Visitors to the new Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes website can now access the contents of the China Box. The above photo shows some simplified Chinese characters and basic words introduced at the site.
The National Folk Museum of Korea has been developing its multicultural promotion program so as to reflect the changes going on in Korean society, as it becomes more and more multicultural.
As a result, the museum created a series of "culture discovery boxes" to introduce Vietnam and Mongolia (2010), the Philippines (2011), Korea itself (2012), Uzbekistan (2013), Indonesia (2014) and China (2015). In November this year, the museum will introduce a new series of Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes for Japan.
The museum has also been running an on-site visit and a rental program for these multicultural educational boxes. As of August 2016, the museum visited 1,340 educational institutions nationwide, including elementary schools, multicultural educational institutions and kindergartens, and it provided classes 3,040 times and reached a total of approximately 304,000 students.
Considering the growing number of boxes that can be rented from the museum, starting in October this year, the museum will accept online applications for the program, which used to be run solely over the telephone.
The new Kkureomi Culture Discovery Boxes website provides information to help young learners better understand the cultures of other countries. Visitors can watch videos introducing the famous Chinese legend of Houyi and Chang'e.
By Yoon Sojung
Korea.net Staff Writer
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