"I Dream of Becoming a Broadcaster"... The Story of an Elementary Student at a Care Center Deciding Their Career Path

Media Tour for Care Center Participants
Hands-on Experience from Broadcast Production to Transmission
"It Also Helped Foster Dreams of Becoming a Professional Broadcaster"

On the 22nd, KT Group announced that it conducted the ‘KT Group Media Tour’ together with KT Skylife, HCN, and the KT Group Hope Sharing Foundation. They invited 24 elementary school students from Jagok Dahamkke Kiwoom Center, I-Plus Kiwoom Center, and Taehwa Dahamkke Kiwoom Center located in Seoul. The event included a tour of the Seocho HCN Broadcasting Center and provided an opportunity to explore career paths with professional broadcasters.

Elementary school students participating in the tour visiting the HCN Integrated Control Center (DMC) (Photo by KT)

The tour began at the ‘Integrated Control Center,’ where all broadcasting and communication services provided by HCN are monitored. The elementary students, watching the process of how broadcasting and communication services are delivered and managed to users through about 250 monitors covering the DMC wall, expressed their excitement, saying “It’s amazing.” Next, they moved to the studio for an announcer and broadcasting production experience. An announcer from ‘News Wide’ demonstrated, and the students took turns practicing speeches while receiving guidance from staff or taking on the role of camera director. The experience concluded with the students filming video letters. Kim Do-yoon (12) said, “Meeting an announcer I had only seen on TV in person helped me nurture my dream of becoming a professional broadcaster.”

The ‘KT Group Media Tour’ began in 2017. It is a social contribution activity aimed at providing elementary students with a one-day media experience and tour program, as well as helping them explore career paths in the media field. It is operated mainly by group companies such as KT Skylife, HCN, and KT Alpha. Notably, HCN joined for the first time this year. KT Group stated, “We will continue to fulfill KT Group’s social responsibilities by closing the cultural experience gap among students and supporting their growth as future broadcasting talents.”