POSCO, the nation’s top steel maker, will hold a concert for interracial families at its headquarters in Daechi-dong, southern Seoul, on March 16.
According to the Korean Institute for Healthy Family, the company will invite around 140 members of such families to the concert which will feature acclaimed violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill and the KBS Symphony Orchestra.
This will be the second such concert after the company hosted the first event in July 2011.
POSCO is at the forefront of supporting interracial families, organizing a variety of social initiatives and cultural events. Among these are Cafe Oasia, where immigrant women work as baristas, opened last month at the company’s headquarters in Seoul.
It has also supported the Danuri Call Center, which has provided information about Korean life for immigrant wives since 2010.
A Korean entry, “Noodle Fish,” by Kim Jin-man has won the gold prize in the category of short animated films at the 8th Teheran International Animation Festival that took place from March 3 to 7.
The work was praised for its fresh and experimental ideas employed to relate the challenges a fish overcomes in pursuit of its destiny. The 10-minute film takes viewers on a journey during which the protagonist explores the world outside the water because he believes that this is the only way to grow up.
A total of 950 works from 70 countries worldwide were presented at the festival. Among them, seven Korean animations including Noodle Fish were screened.
The winning entry was also selected as the best animated short in the short films competition program at the 29th Warsaw Film Festival last year.