SK Telecom conducts free Internet classes for elementary school students who have not had the opportunity to learn the basics of information technology due to their being in remote locations such as farming and fishing villages. This program by SK Telecom is called "Free Touring Education In Information Technology?. It runs from July 19 to the end of August and involves 250 remotely located elementary schools nationwide. It is designed to break the Digital Divide between the urban areas and remote farm and fishing villages.

This educational training, conducted during the school vacation, consists of basic PC management, usage of Windows 2000, Internet searches, and e-mail. The training program, one of the company?s social contribution programs, will be given to remote elementary schools nationwide to which SK Telecom also contributed 5,000 PC’s last year. SK Telecom also provides maintenance and repair service to the PC’s it has contributed.

No Jong Lee, director of PR Office at SK Telecom, said ?other than PC donation, it is very important to enhance the capability of information usage based on continued educational training of information technology?. He also added "in order to create equal opportunity in the world of information and communication, SK Telecom will keep focusing on educating disadvantaged youth including physically challenged youth and orphaned teenagers who support their siblings about information technology". SK Telecom is putting forth its best efforts to continue to carry out social contribution activities to aid those people who are lost in the shadows of society. These activities include donating PCs and offering computer classes to orphaned teenagers who support their siblings, offering Internet and computer class tours for special schools for disabled youth, donating PCs to the primary schools in country side, and many others.