By Kim Se-jeong
Staff Reporter
With the opening of www.germany-in-korea.or.kr, live and moving images of Germany are now just clicks away.
The Web site, which had its grand opening Monday, provides viewers with images in a moving 360-degree panorama.
From a museum in Berlin to an arboretum in Frankfurt, the site has a pool of 60 different images of Germany to be updated on a monthly basis, said Anton Scholz, who designed the Web page.
The images are selected according to the interests of Korean tourists, he added. The virtual images drew a pile of exclamations from the audience during the launching presentation at Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul.
The site has been a long time coming. In 2006, the embassy conducted a survey revealing Koreans' knowledge of Germany was relatively shallow.
``Through the opening of ``Germany in Korea,'' the embassy wants to enhance the knowledge of Germany among Korean people,'' German Ambassador Norbert Baas said.
He added the embassy aims particularly at appealing to young Koreans.
The site is only in Korean, offering information on German culture, lifestyle, education, vocation, politics, economy, history and more.
It is separate from the embassy's Web site www.seoul.diplo.de, and the two are expected to complement each other.