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KOFAC ISCULTURE

KOFAC ISGROWTH

KOFAC ISTECHNOLOGY

KOFAC ISINNOVATION

KOFAC ISEDUCATION

KOFAC ISSHARING

KOFAC ISWISDOM

KOFAC ISCHANGE

KOFAC ISDEVELOPMENT

KOFAC ISPASSION

KOFAC ISDREAM

KOFAC ISIMAGINATION

KOFAC ISCONVERGENCE

KOFAC ISCHALLENGE

KOFAC ISFUTURE

KOFAC ISSCIENCE

KOFAC ISTHINK

KOFAC ISCREATIVE

KOFAC ISCOLLABORATION

KOFAC ISCOMMUNICATION

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Science dreams of a better tomorrow

and realizes the dreams through creativity and imagination.

The Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity

is pursuing challenges and transformations for a brighter future.

The Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity (KOFAC) was first established as the Association for Supporting Science and Technology in 1967.

We were reorganized as the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity in 2008 in accordance with the amendment of the Framework Act on

Science and Technology and designated as a national R&D institute in 2011. To meet the social need of developing a culture that promotes science & technology and

fostering creative talents, we have remained committed to our key objective, throughout our history.

COLLABORATION

SHARING

GLOBAL

FUTURE

TECHNOLOGY

IMAGINATION

COMMUNICATION

CHALLENGE

NETWORK

THINK

INFINITY

C O N T E N T S

04 President’s Message

06 History and Organization Chart

08 Mission and Vision

10 KOFAC’s Main Directives

12 Develop Foundation for Creative Economy & Culture and Foster Creative Talents

18 Diffusion of Creative Science Culture

24 Nurture Scientifically Gifted Human Resources

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President’s Message

A Leap Towards a Brighter Future

For many years, science and technology have brought innovation

and happiness to our lives.

Now, it’s time for Korea to lead the future, adding imagination

and creativity to science and technology.

For half a century, with constant changes and innovation,

KOFAC has become the center for spreading science culture and

nurturing creative talents. As a spring board for a new paradigm,

we aim to lay the cultural foundation where creativity and

imagination can be unfolded and sow seeds for creativity and

passion by nurturing creative talents.

KOFAC will stand in the midst of a great leap towards an

advanced nation of science and technology.

We ask for your interest and warm support in our effort to open

the future with new possibilities.

Thank you.

President Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity

Seunghwan Kim, Ph.D

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History and Organization Chart

Institute for Creative Culture Policy

Training Center for Education

Division for Creative Economy and Human Resources Development

Office of Creative Economy Culture Planning / Office of Future Creative Human Resources / Office of Career Support and Educational Donation

Division for Promoting Creative Culture

Office of Creative Culture Planning / Office of Science and Creativity Contents / Office of Science Culture Diffusion

Division for Science and Mathematics Education

Office of Science & Convergence Education / Office of Supporting the Gifted in Science / Office of Mathematics and Computing Education

Division of Management & Planning

Office of Planning & Budget / Office of Administrative Services

PresidentBoard

of Directors

AuditorOffice

of Auditor

Established as the Association for Supporting Science

and Technology

Reorganized as the Korea Science

Foundation

Reorganized asthe Korea Foundation

for Advancementof Science &

Creativity

Reorganized as

the Korea Foundation for the Advancement

of Science & Technology

Designated as a national R&D institute, and the Center for Educational Donation

2011

Certified as the General and Distant Training institute

2012

Designated as the Center for Supporting Science and Technology Careers, the Center for Supporting Free Leaning Semester

2014

Designated as the Center for Creative Economy Culture, and the Center for Supporting Creative Idea Labs

2013

Designated as a public organization dedicated to promote public understanding of science in accordance with the Promotion of Science and Technology Act

1992

KOFAC has fostered hope through stimulating change and growth

KOFAC has been the leading organization in spreading science culture

for the past 50 years in order to allow anyone and everyone to easily

understand and encounter science in our daily lives.

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Mission and Vision

Mission

Promotion of Science Culture and fostering

Creative Talents

Vision Global leader specialized in spreading Creative Economy & Culture and fostering creativity

Think Collaborate Networking Globalize

Core Values

Mid- and Long-Term Management Goals

Establish the base forCreative Economy

Innovate math and science education

Globalize Science Culture

Promote the MakerMovement nation-wide

Expand creative hands-on activities

Collaborate globally forScience Culture

6 Major strategic Tasks

Reinforce computational thinking based on

Software Education

Establish Scienceand Mathematics Education

Standards

Develop and distributescience, technology,

and ICT contents

KOFAC aims to become the leading organization specialized in spreading science culture and fosteringcreative human resources

We communicate and work together to draw out individuals' creative

potential and realize their imaginations.

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KOFAC’s Main Directives

KoFAC's Directives

•Distribute Maker culture programs

• Build a national network of college students' business start-up activities

•Promote Creative Economy & Culture campaign and expand a cooperative network

•Build a national network of the Creative Idea Labs

•Support the professional development for teachers and provide customized programs for schools to settle the free learning semester

• Establish a Mid- and Long-term Science Education Standard for the Next Generation

•Implement Software education in formal and informal education

•Develop curriculums combining natural science and liberal arts

•Reinforce students' R&E programs in science high schools and schools for the gifted

•Collaborate globally to promote science culture

•Develop and distribute world-class contents of science culture

•Raise public understanding and interest of science

Reinforce the basis forrealizing Creative Economy

Mid- and Long-termInnovation of Math

and Science Education Globalize Science Culture

•Develop foundation for the Creative Economy using science and technology

•Build a society that nurtures creativity and imagination

Administrative Taskno. 8

•Reinforce the nation’s competitiveness

in technological innovation

•Foster science and technology specialists with a convergence mindset

Administrative Task

no. 16

•Normalize public education

•Design curriculum centered on character education and inspiring students to discover their abilities and dreams

Administrative Task

no. 66With profound insights and broad perspectives,we lead the changes in society one step at a time

We prepare systematically and proactively to lay

the foundation for creative economy

and nurture future leaders of science and technology to realize a creative society.

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Part 1

Develop foundationfor Creative Economy & Cultureand foster Creative Talents

We are in the forefront of

realizing happiness through

the implementation of a creative

economy & culture.

KOFAC offers various creative economy & culture programs,

in which anyone can participate. We also support the cultivation

of creative human resources through the creative character

development and educational donation.

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Diffusion of Creative Economy & CultureIn order to bring a new paradigm

of Creative Economy & Culture, we

spread maker culture and establish

creative spaces and infrastructures

to support individuals realizing their

creative ideas.

Maker Education Program across different life cycles

Through Maker training programs and lectures for youths, teachers, and adults, we create a social culture in which people can implement ideas by themselves.

online Platform for Makers

An online platform where anyone can take part in Maker activities by using and sharing beneficial information, learning, creating, and interacting with one another.

Korea Maker Achievement Presentation

An event to share the success stories of maker culture, which is continuously growing based on creativity and global interactions of Makers in various fields.

College students’ Business start-up idea Forum ‘Compass’

Expanding the base for business start-up through a forum to share practical information for and successful cases of college students’ business start-up.

Creative Korea Exhibition

Sharing achievements and future vision for the creative economy with the public.

Development and distribution of PR Contents for Creative Economy

Increasing the awareness of creative economy by providing continuous information about outstanding achievements of creative economy.

Creative idea Labs

A creative spaces in our surroundings, such as science museums, libraries, and community centers, that assists enhancing people’s creativity and imagination by supporting development and realization of their ideas.

Managing Exchange spaces for Creative Economy & Culture

Spaces of exchange and communication that provide on/off mentoring and professional consulting services for entrepreneurs to realize their ideas and commercialize their products.

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Cultivation of Creative Human Resourcesfor the FutureWe propose innovative class models to

increase student-centered experience

and learning, and implement

education for happiness through

providing educational environments

and programs of quality, as well as

educational donation activities to

foster creative human resources.

Center for supporting Free Learning semester system

The free learning semester for middle schools allows students to imagine, experience, and learn directly from our society and surroundings. It is a beginning of a education for happiness that develops their dreams and talents.

Base Centers for Creativity·Character Education

Supporting teachers’ professional development and networking to vitalize creativity·character education nation-wide, and also identify and share outstanding cases, such as classroom environment changes.

Creativity·Character Education Forum

Cultivating ‘mania groups’ that will lead the school environment through new models of teacher training and practical workshops.

Cultivating Leading Teachers of Creativity·Character Education

Create new models of curriculums in universities for education, in order to cultivate preliminary teachers who will lead creativity·character education in schools.

Crezone

A leading website for creativity and character education offering an array of programs and information to encourage creative experiences of teachers and parents.

Education for sustainable Development (EsD)

Supporting schools in order to cultivate proactive and creative human resources who will lead the development of our society and establish a sustainable nation, and to raise awareness of global citizenship.

Korea’s Promising Future Leaders Award

Identifying creative individuals with dreams, talents, creativity, passion, and character based on an integral mindset, and supporting them to grow into future leaders.

Happy Educational Donation Fair

A fair that shares outstanding practices of educational donation to promote nation-wide participation of enterprises, universities, and public institution for purposes of establishing a ‘happy learning’ environment.

Educational Donation Weeks

A promotional week for educational donation by designating a monthly theme focusing on major social issues. During the week, many social organizations and professionals take part in educational donation programs for students, teachers, and parents.

Educational Donation by college students

More than 10,000 college students take part in educational donation by providing a wide variety of creativity and character education programs for elementary, middle school, and high school students.

Certification and Award for outstanding organizations of Educational Donation

Certifying and awarding outstanding enterprises, organizations, college students’ clubs, and schools who have contributed to the vitalization of educational donation activities.

Part 2

Diffusion of Creative Science Culture

We develop creative science culture

in which people can experience and

enjoy science.

KOFAC develops various contents to enhance public

understanding of science, technology, and ICT.

We provide opportunities to experience science

in order to spread science culture and nurture people's creativity.

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Develop Science Culture Contents

We develop Science Culture contents

to increase peoples’ creativity

and understanding of science and

technology through various media to

strengthen foundations for creative

economy.

Research on science Culture

Leading the global science culture through the investigation, analysis, research on science culture trends, policies, and changes of the future society.

science & Creativity Annual Conference

This Korea’s largest academic conference on science and creative culture strengthens global interaction and collaboration, as well as identifies global agenda for the future.

Korea science Culture Award

Promoting science culture activities by awarding individuals and organizations who have contributed to the development and popularization of science culture and culture of imagination, challenge, and business startup.

An online contents platform that allows anyone to easily utilize and share science and technology contents including various articles, pictures, videos clips and more.

An online science newspaper that publishes latest science news and in-depth science articles to enhance science literacy and knowledge of the public.

Channel

A TV channel reporting trends and various contents of science and technology to enhance public understanding of science by facilitating communication between science and the society.

Certification for Good science Books

Excellent science literatures are selected, certified, advertised, and supplied in order to promote publication and reading of science literature.

Development of science, Technology, and iCT Contents

Science culture contents that correspond to the latest science & technology ICT trends are developed and supplied to enhance people’s scientific knowledge and creativity.

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culture through a variety of platforms

and programs where anyone can

easily participate in and experience

science.

02 Diffusion of Creative Science Culture

Science contents distribution

Hands-on science Class

Out-of-school science classes for youths with science lectures, experiments, and creative hands-on activities provided in local community centers nation-wide.

Korea science & Creativity Festival

Korea’s largest science festival comprised of excellent science culture contents and hands-on programs for the public to observe, experience and interact with science and its communities.

Youth science Club (YsC) and national Youth science Competition

Supporting the Youth Science Clubs and the National Youth Science Competition to promote joint research activities of youths and increase scientific knowledge and interests.

Local science Festival

Regional Science and Culture Festivals are held in 14 local government regions (excluding metropolitan regions) in order to standardize opportunities of experiencing science among different regions, and to assist a balanced regional development.

support for independent organizations’ science Culture Activities

To encourage self-directed and creative science culture activities of private sectors, development of science contents and science programs are supported for such independent organizations.

science & Creativity Ambassador Program

Scientists and engineers provide customized science discussions and lecture programs for children, youths, and adults to increase the public interests in science and help enhance public’s science literacy.

Korea Youth science & Creativity Competition

The largest science competition for youths organized by KOFAC. The winners are awarded with an opportunity to take part in the following year’s international competition.

Christmas science Concert

A theatrical science concert with performances and talk shows held during the Christmas season in order to encourage youths to dream and hope with science.

Cultivation of science Communicators

Science communication professionals support professional development of scientists, engineers, and other science culture specialists in enhancing communication between science and the public.

science Makers Battle

A competition of various creative activities based on science and ICT is held in order to spread the Maker Culture. Science fiction novels, short-films, and other creative works in various fields are supported for the competition.

Part 3

Nurture Scientifically Gifted HumanResources

We support and nurture outstanding

human resources in science who

will lead the future society.

Through advanced and systematic science education programs,

KOFAC nurtures talented and gifted human resources in science

and technology fields. We also develop future talents with

mathematics and computing competence.

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Enhancing Science Education and Nurturing Scientifically Gifted Youths

We nurture key human resources

for science and technology through

the establishment of science

education standards and STEAM

program development. We also train

scientifically gifted talents through

exchanges among countries.

Develop of science Education Curriculum combining natural science and Liberal Arts

Enhancing science education curriculum through studies on detailed areas of science to be included in the revised national curriculum combining liberal arts and natural science.

Develop science Education standards for the next Generation

Developing Korea’s next generation science education standards to promote qualitative growth of science education and establishment of continuous and consistent science education policies.

support high schools running intensive science courses

Supporting 100 non-science high schools to run intensive science courses and promoting pertinent programs to reinforce math and science education, and to encourage students to pursue further education in areas of science and engineering.

Develop and Distribute sTEAM Programs

Supporting researches to discover and develop effective, applicable STEAM contents for teachers in schools.

Develop sTEAM outreach Programs

Supporting researches to develop and run STEAM hands-on activities in combination with educational donation where students can experience science and technology.

Teacher Training for Enhancing Competence of Convergent Human Resources

Providing customized training programs for STEAM teachers in order to increase their understanding of STEAM curriculum for elementary and middle schools and deliver application expertise.

support sTEAM R&E

We help students improve creativity and problem-solving abilities by giving self-led study opportunities through STEAM R&E.

support Careers for science and Technology Human Resources

Improving the awareness of natural science and engineering majors and their careers, as well as encouraging outstanding human resources to pursue further studies in these areas by providing career support.

Youth Technology Business start-up olympiad

Promoting entrepreneurship in youths, and providing a place for sharing and competing with their challenging and adventurous start-up ideas of science and technology.

support schools and institutes for gifted students

Helping to discover scientifically gifted students in earlier stages and systematically nurture them to improve the nation’s future competitiveness. (Science high schools, Schools for the gifted in science, university-affiliated institute for gifted students)

international science olympiads

Interacting to share dreams and visions with scientific talents from around the world, and nurturing the gifted students in science.

support the KAisT institute for Talented Education

Designing new training programs for scientifically gifted youth and conducting policy researches on pending issues and the need for institutional improvements.

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Strengthening Mathematics Education and Software Core Competency

We develop and distribute

mathematics curriculum, textbooks,

and teaching materials, and support

software education based on

computational thinking.

Mathematics Curriculum Research

Conducting researches for revision of mathematics curriculum, for development of teacher training materials about the curriculum, and for establishment of long term vision for mathematics education

Develop Teaching Materials for Mathematics

Developing and distributing contents to teach and learn mathematics in accordance with the curriculum revisions in 2009.

Researches to improve Mathematics Textbook

Conducting studies on development of student-oriented math textbooks for elementary, middle school, and high schools.

Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers

Organizing forums and workshops for mathematics teachers to improve their expertise in math education and train them as professional counselors for learning mathematics.

Math Popularization Activities

Providing a place of communication to raise a nation-wide awareness of the usefulness of math and methods on how to teach their children.

Math Education Leading schools

Taking on the role of leading the popularization of mathematics in local communities around school area by providing small workshops and math classes for parents to improve people’s mathematics mind.

software Education Leading schools

Providing support for enhancement of fundamental software literacy and establishment of educational environment through these schools aiming to strengthen software education in primary and secondary schools.

Develop software Teaching Materials and Professional Development for Teachers

Developing teaching materials and professional development programs for teachers so the teachers can implement software education based on creative and computational thinking in schools.

First publication of a science magazine, ‘Science Chosun’ (1933) 1st ‘Science Day’ Ceremony(1934)

Educational Donation Fair(2013) Opening of the Creative Idea Lab in the National Science Museum(2013)

1st Model Vehicle Competition(1984) Science and Technology National Awareness Council(1992) Science + Art Seminar(1993) Family Science Festival(1996)

National Youth Science Competition(1986) Traveling Science Bus(1980’s)The committee for managing scholarship

at the Ministry of Science and Technology(1977) Science lecture for all people(1983) News media reporting the Science Bus(1988)

Science Education Seminar for elementary and middle schools1974)

A seminar for developing environment for science and technology through mass media(1977)

Science Festival in Autumn(1998) National Youth Science Competition(1999)

Opening of the Creative Idea Lab in the Gwacheon National Science Museum(2013)

Launch of a Science Portal Website ScienceAll (2001)

Science Korea MovementDeclaration (2004) Hands-on Science Class(2004) 1st Science Communication

Symposium(2005)

'Plant Scientific Minds!' Campaign(1968) Children's Picture Book Advisory Committee(1968)

Science lectures by scientists and engineers nation-wide(1969)

Saemaul Movement with Nation-wide Scientification Movement(1970)

International Science & Engineering Camp Science Korea Campaign(2004) Science Book Fair(2007) Youth Natural Science and Engineering Career Expo(2007)

Science books for students(1973) A monument for Nation-wide Scientification bythe late president Jung Hee Park(1973) Reorganized as KOFAC(2008) College Volunteering for Science Education(2009) International Youth Science and Creativity Competition(2010)

' Technological Innovation ' written by the late president Jung Hee Park(1976)Science lecture for housewives(1973)

KOFAC Headquarters(2012~)

International Seminar on Science for All(2014)

ODA for Science education in Vietnam(2014) MOU for Globalizing Science Culture(2014) Korea Science & Creativity Festival(2013)

1st Korea Science Festival(1997) Science lecture for adults(2014) Fashion-wearable Make-A-Thon(2014)

Korea's Promising Future Leaders Award(2014) Creative Korea Exhibition(2014) Famelab Korea Finals(2015)

1967~1971Association for Supporting Science and Technology

1972~1996Korea Foundation for the Advancement ofScience and Technology

1998~2007Korea Science Foundation

2008~Korea Foundationfor the Advancement of Science and Creativity

History of KOFAC at a glance

Declaration of establishing the ASST(1967)

KOFAC works to break down the barriers between different areas and cultures to promote new possibilities through creative cooperation.

We enthusiastically engage in international collaborations for various

cooperative projects, mutual exchange programs, policy researches,

etc. that could establish and strengthen partnerships and networks

with related organizations.

Consultation & Inquiries

Tel +82 2 559 3855

Fax +82 2 555 0702

Email international@kofac.or.kr

602 Seolleung-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-867, Korea (Samsung-dong 37-20)

+ 82.2.559.3955

+ 82.2.555.2355

www.kofac.re.kr