Thursday, December 13, 2007

Jang Dong-gun and other stars help poor students to learn English

[Yonhap News, 2007-12-12 15:27 KST]



Top star Jang Dong-gun, Kim Seung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, Hyun Bin, Joo Jin-mo, Ji Jin-hee and Gong Hyung-jin, 7 actors will be participating in loving campaign, to help the underprivileged and fisherman village student to obtain more opportunities to learn English.

As the members of the baseball team 'Playboys", they volunteer to participate in a campaign named "Antenna of Love", a TV program event that is organized by EBS TV program.

"Antenna of Love" is sponsored by the educational department, EBS and Sky Life. This activity help the family who is underprivileged and for students that live in area that has difficulty receiving signal by installing one thousand antenna to receive programs that are broadcast via satellite signal. This will help them to receive free EBS English channel content for 3 years.

Each of the seven actors helped to record two parts (each part is about one minute and 30 seconds) of campaign clips, that talked about their experience with English language and concurrently emphasize on the importance of English education to promote how EBS English channel could be utilize.

JDG who is currently shooting Hollywood movie "Laundry Warrior" expressed, "The emphasis of the importance of English language despite a hundred times reiteration will never be enough. If one wants to achieve success in Hollywood, one has to surpass the boundary of acting and language. Firstly, we would like to thank EBS channel to broadcast free English learning program. In addition, we are very happy that through this activity poor students can also learn English language freely."


Translated from source: http://chinese.yonhapnews.co.kr/

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