‘K-Edupine’ Jeonnam Has Been ‘Squeaky’ Since the Initial Implementation

Frontline Officials Face Inconvenience as Attached Files Cannot Be Edited, Forcing Restart

System Overload and Temporary Shutdowns Occur When Many Users Access Simultaneously

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jun-kyung] The Ministry of Education's newly introduced ‘K-Edupine’ system, launched for the first time this year, is malfunctioning frequently in the Jeonnam region, causing issues from the early stages of implementation.

According to the Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education on the 29th, ‘K-Edupine,’ which integrates Edupine and the work management system into one, was launched in educational sites starting from the 1st of this month.

Private kindergartens will open the ‘Private Kindergarten K-Edupine,’ which applies the financial and accounting rules for private educational institutions, on March 1st.

The existing Edupine system, established in 2008, is a local education finance system used by 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education and schools nationwide. However, it had limitations in reflecting changing systems and policies.

Therefore, the Ministry of Education and the nationwide metropolitan and provincial offices of education introduced the new ‘K-Edupine,’ which integrates work communication and the existing Edupine to improve ▲integration of finance and administrative tasks ▲digitization of manual work ▲expansion of external agency information linkage ▲advancement of electronic financial services.

‘K-Edupine,’ introduced to enhance work efficiency and financial transparency, is causing difficulties for practitioners due to system errors and malfunctioning.

The biggest complaint from practitioners is that once documents requesting approval, such as official letters, are uploaded to the K-Edupine system, they can no longer be modified.

In the existing Edupine, if official letters or drafts uploaded by the person in charge required modification, the approver or reviewer could make overall corrections or supplements.

In the newly launched ‘K-Edupine,’ once the person in charge uploads a document, the main text can be edited, but modifications to ‘attached files’ are not allowed.

Therefore, frontline personnel complain about the inconvenience of having to recall the entire document and start over if attached files need to be modified.

A staff member from an education support office in Jeonnam said, “Overall system errors are severe, causing many disruptions to work,” and expressed concern, saying, “It seems the unstable system was rushed into implementation, which worries us.”

Additionally, K-Edupine once suffered serious errors such as temporary suspension of major services due to system overload caused by a surge in users.

Also, during approval, the approval values from the work management side must smoothly transfer to Edupine for expenditure, quality, and cause actions to proceed, but when many users access simultaneously, approvals do not proceed properly.

An employee at Haenam A Middle School said, “While Edupine has been steadily upgraded over the past 10 years and is a stable system, K-Edupine feels like an old 286-level computer,” adding, “Of course, we expect the program to be upgraded and improved.”

A Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education official stated, “It is true that there are limitations as the system is in its initial stage of implementation, and the Ministry of Education and the provincial office are working to resolve the issues,” adding, “We will attend a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Academic Information Center on the 31st to seek ways to improve system functions.”

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