The Educational Broadcasting System(EBS) was opened in December 1990, as the affiliated educational broadcasting arm of the Korean Education
     Development Institute(KEDI) in order to support school education and expand the opportunity for education, and thus ultimately to contribute
     toward national educational development. Now EBS has one TV and FM Radio channel, and a staff of 630. In operating the broadcasting system,
     the MOE is responsible for policy-making, program organization, administrative and financial support, EBS in charge of planning, organization,
     production and deliveration of the education broadcasting, and the Korean Broadcasting System in charge of the transmission of the broadcast.
     50% of the budget for the educational broadcast operation is subsidized by the the government and the rest depends on other incomes such as
     project income and funds for common profit. Educational broadcasting programs are put on the air by TV for 8 hours and 30 minutes every day(18
     hours on Sundays) and by FM Radio for 20 hours a day. The main programs are not only school education program which supports the school
     education, and the air & correspondence education program which offers the opportunity for life-long education, but social education programs
     for children, youth, teachers, parents and the public. The educational broadcasting programs also can be divided according to the subjects into
     various programs for curriculum, foreign language conversation, vocational education, environmental education, home discipline, culture, music,
     art, and education on national unification. Especially it lays emphasis on the educational programs of computer - internet - and foreign language
     correspond with the age of information and internationalization. After unification, Educational Broadcasting is expected to contribute to the
     strenthening of national identity and the cultivation of a common consciousness in every aspect - language, curriculum, social system, teacher
     education, customs, history and so forth.