Naver, NHN's search portal, announced on November 5 that it launched 'Visiting Internet Ethics Class'(VIEC) in which school children learn how to rightly use internet. With the 'Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion', it will do a lecturing tour to primary schools.

Until October, 2008, it is expected that VIEC be held at 200 primary, middle, and high schools in all part of Korea. As a part of ‘Green Internet Campaign’ to promote the right internet environment, Naver also plans to participate in ethics classes that will be set up at the total of 24 primary schools in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, and hence help to encourage students with the right internet use practice in the better condition.

In the first Ethics class held at Young-Hwa primary school on November 5, 230 sixth-grade students were taught the followings: ▪ practicing internet manners ▪ using lovely Korean ▪ utilizing the right information ▪ preventing internet addiction ▪ marking illegal noxious sites ▪ dealing with spam mails ▪ providing against computer viruses.

In addition, there were events like Challenge Green Bell Quiz, games with Mento, exhibitions, commemoration photographing in the photo-zone, and the issue of certificate, all that helped students to easily learn internet ethics with fun through play and participation.

Cho Soo-Yong, the CMD chief of NHN, said, "according to a research released from the Ministry of Information and Communication in the first half of this year, the 98.7 % of students whose ages are ranged from 6 to 19 uses internet. It shows that ethics education is continually needed from the period of primary student in which ethical consciousness is forming on a full scale through the process of socialization."

'Green Internet Campaign' receives applications of prospective schools through its home page.

Furthermore, Naver plans to carry out off-line educational activities to foster internet environments and reduce the information gap for the elderly who lives in rural areas and islands alienated from information.