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Busan International Kids’ Film Festival Seeks Video Entries 2 weeks 2 days ago BUSAN, South Korea -- Ready Action, the only competitive section of Busan International Kids’ Film Festival (BiKi), is a collection of creative works made by kids and teens. Any film made by kids and teens between 6 and 16 will be eligible. Twenty works would advance to the finals and will be screened at BiKi. Only six works will be selected by the BiKi Kids juries comprised the members of the executive committee of KFKF and the last year’s winners. The awards ceremony is...
The Eden Center: A Place Where Korea`s Gifted Children Can go to Excel 3 weeks 6 days ago SEOUL, South Korea -- Around the world, Korean kids are famous as academic whizzes who study endlessly and score high. With so much emphasis on scholastic achievement, one would think that...
Busan Kids Oral Hyigene Lowest in the Country 17 weeks 14 hours ago BUSAN, South Korea -- Children in Busan have the lowest rate of oral hygiene in the country according to statistics by the Korean National Mouth Health Organization. Recent statistics show that only 19.8% of elementary school children brush their teeth at school after lunch, much lower than the national average of 33.8%. Currently, 42.4% of elementary school first graders, 85.6% of middle schools first graders, and 77.9% of high school first graders are suffering from stomatopathy...
BIKI Opening and Closing Films Selected 44 weeks 2 days ago BUSAN, South Korea - The 7th Busan International Kid’s Film Festival will be held July 20-24, 2012 at Busan Cinema Center. The opening and closing films for the 7th Busan International Kid's Film Festival have been selected. The opening film is “The Great Bear” (original title: Gadkiy Utyonok). It is a 73 minute Danish animated feature film which was directed by Garri Bardin. The Great Bear is an animated fantasy inspired by Scandinavian nature and...
Fatherhood in the ROK 2 years 14 weeks ago BUSAN, South Korea - One fine Sunday afternoon a few years back, when my daughter, Anna, was a few months old, I found myself wandering through the electronics department at Emart. There was a ten-year-old girl singing for a small crowd and I stopped for a minute to listen. Difficult to ignore, she was singing along in nearly perfect tune with the greatest singer-songwriter of the 1980’s, Kenny Rogers. It was a good opportunity to...

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