[New Year's Address] Yoo Eun-hye "Review to Ensure No Social Systems Favor Privileged Minorities"

Special Privileges and Unfairness in Entrance Exams and Hiring Follow Laws and Principles
"Taking Advantage of the COVID Crisis to Promote Future Education"

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hye is attending the Central Emergency Economic Countermeasures Headquarters meeting and the Korean New Deal related ministers' meeting held at the Government Seoul Office in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on December 23 last year. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hye emphasized "fairness" in this year's New Year's address.

On the 1st, Deputy Prime Minister Yoo stated in her New Year's address, "We will thoroughly review the entire system to ensure there are no social systems favoring privileged minorities, and take measures according to laws and principles against special favors and unfairness in admissions and recruitment."

She continued, "I will pay special attention to eliminating heartbreaking incidents caused by the lack of guaranteed social basic rights," adding, "We will persistently address child abuse prevention and eradication of sex crimes, ensuring that prevention systems operate meticulously."

Previously, in her 2020 New Year's address, Deputy Prime Minister Yoo said, "We will definitely improve unequal and unfair social systems to realize the value of fairness," adding, "It is absolutely unacceptable that parental power is effectively inherited by children through certain specific systems, and that children and youth who witness this become despondent and distrust the Korean social system itself."

As Minister of Education, she said, "We will turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity to concretely promote future education," and "To further activate remote education, we will enhance the functions of the learning management system, including support for real-time video classes, and build school wireless networks in all classrooms nationwide for elementary, middle, and high schools on the largest scale ever." She also added, "We will further expand care support, basic learning support, school quarantine, and psychological quarantine for students and faculty, strengthening the educational safety net."

To concretely promote the transition to future education this year, Deputy Prime Minister Yoo emphasized, "We will consult with stakeholders including students, teachers, parents, and the public, and reflect the agreed matters in the 2022 National Curriculum." She added, "The five policies starting this year?the Green Smart Future School project, stable implementation of the high school credit system, preparation of a teacher training system reform plan, activation of artificial intelligence (AI) education, and others?will play a pivotal role in leading our school education toward future education."

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