At this twentieth anniversary month, 75 different events will be held in 42 different places under the theme Unification of Hopeful Korea in Digital. Some of the events will include Information and Communication Yesterday and Today which is the Information and Communication Historical Documents Exhibition, Month of Information and Culture Opening Ceremony, Information Culture Conference and Informative World for the disabled and elders.
Information and Communication Yesterday and Today especially is the starting event of the Information and Culture Month that looks back at the last twenty years of information that has been impacting in our lives and society that provides variety of things to see. Anyone who is interested may participate in this particular event.
Information and Communication Yesterday and Today started on June 1, 10:30 in the morning in front of the Ministry of Information and Communication and will continue until June 20.
The Information and Communication Yesterday and Today event will provide variety of things to take a look at and experience. There will be new technology testing zones, event zones, and 12 scenes and chronicles, historical document bequest zone, and a policy publicity zone. The historical document bequest zone will display the CDMA and the electronic telephone exchanger.
In a video zone, there are 5 animations regarding stories based on history and the 21 selected information and communication from DaeHan News that used to be shown as previews before the movies started in the theaters up to 1994. The twelve scenes of Information and Communication, in particular, is the zone where visitors can see the evolution of our information and communication history at a glance.
This zone will be very educational to teenagers because the displays connect a modern broadcast communication technology to our history in the past. At the event or experience zone, visitors can experience Morse Code and make stamps in the way they want.
The new technology experience zone has IPTV, WiBro, home network and 3.5G video phones.
In the same building complex, Ubiquitous Dream Hall and KT Art Hall's daily musical performance is going on an everyday basis, so whoever visits the Information and Communication Yesterday and Today will have more than the event itself to be entertained.
The Ministry of Information and Communication expects citizens to participate in events and be informed to the new technology and cover what has taken part in Korean IT history.
