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Dear Kasbah Travel Guide I located your organization in a news article showing you as one of the most reliable travel companies in your country. Let me introduce myself to you. I am a member of VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea) from Korea. We are cyber travel guides for foreigners who help them better understand Korean culture, language, life, etc through e-mail or postal mail, and at the same time we are providing overseas travel companies with Korean travel guidebooks by post or internet free of charge. The travel guidebooks provide a wide range of practical information about traveling in Korea. They also offer great tips on accommodations, shopping, transportation, food, and Korean maps. All of VANK's members, ranging from elementary school first graders to housewives, are participating in voluntary activities that are introducing Korea to foreign nations, and enhancing the image of Korea down the road through pen pals and e-pals. I think VANK is a great opportunity for foreigners who are interested in Korean culture, language, literature, and history - or for those who just want to get information on sightseeing, tours and attractions in Korea. If there is anyone interested in Korea in your organization, please recommend us to them. We can be cyber travel guides for them so that they may better understand Korea, and at the same time build lasting international friendships. It would be much appreciated if you would consider visiting and linking VANK’s website (http://www.prkorea.org) with your website for promoting cooperation. In addition, we can provide you with the latest Korean tour & travel information with new photos free of charge. If you are interested in receiving the latest Korean tour information, please contact us. For your reference, tour2korea.com, the official website of the Korea National Tourism Organization, has introduced VANK activities. I thank you in advance for your kind consideration and cooperation. Very truly yours, VANK (Voluntary Agency Network of Korea) http://www.prkorea.org * Contact to VANK C&G Bldg. 201, 425-17 Sindang 2-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-834, S.KOREA TEL. 82-2-2237-7407 FAX. 82-2-2237-7409 email: times@prkorea.org http://www.prkorea.org VANK stands for ‘Voluntary Agency Network of Korea’, a civilian international exchange association in Korea. We work promoting Korea's image all over the world by Internet. VANK was established in 1999 by volunteers, and now has over 15,000 members. Using e-mail or internet we serve as cyber travel guides to overseas Koreans and foreigners so that they can understand Korean culture and language better, and at the same time we hope we are building international friendships. VANK is a great chance for those who are interested in Korean language, arts, cultural education, history, geography, social studies, and sciences to learn about our country. We also welcome with open arms anyone just wanting to make Korean friends! * References 1) As the best Korean travel website, Tour2Korea.com, the official website of the Korea National Tourism Organization, offers the most up-to-date and useful information for people traveling and living in Korea. The site is operated in eight languages- English, Japanese, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), French, German, Russian, and Spanish. - Tour2Korea.com (http://tour2korea.com) 2) worldatlas.com is one of the leading atlas websites. They heard VANK’s request for proper naming of the “East Sea” and made the following statement on their website: “In the late 1990s the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) began an aggressive letter and email writing campaign, all in an effort to get the world, especially map makers, travel guides and geography web sites to include the East Sea, whenever the long-established Sea of Japan was found in print. At worldatlas.com we play no favorites, nor do we claim to know all of the answers, so until the two countries can reach a unified decision, we will continue to show both names on our maps. We simply ask both sides for their understanding.” - worldatlas.com More information can be found at: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/eastsea.htm 3) VANK provides pictures of Korea to Photoatlas.com. You can see the pictures on the following website: http://photoatlas.com/pics/pictures_of_korea.html "Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches." - [Matthew] -