484 Green Smart Future Schools Selected... Transformation in 2023

By 2025, 18.5 Trillion Won Budget Invested to Rebuild 1,400 Schools
Zero-Energy, Smart Classrooms, and Community Integration
Students, Teachers, and Parents Participate in Pre-Planning

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Schools selected for the Korean New Deal 'Green Smart Future School' project, which involves rebuilding and remodeling school buildings that are over 40 years old, have been announced.

On the 1st, the Ministry of Education announced that 484 kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools, comprising 702 buildings, were selected as targets for the Green Smart Future School project.

The project targets include 1 kindergarten (1 building), 270 elementary schools (406 buildings), 88 middle schools (110 buildings), 124 high schools (184 buildings), and 1 special school (1 building).

The Green Smart Future School project is a plan to invest 18.5 trillion KRW from this year until 2025 to rebuild and remodel 2,835 buildings (approximately 1,400 schools) that are over 40 years old.

The Ministry of Education and metropolitan and provincial offices of education finalized the targets by considering the linkage with various educational policies such as the high school credit system and curriculum, as well as the urgency of environmental improvements for schools over 40 years old.

The selected schools will be transformed into future schools starting in 2023 after preliminary planning, design, and construction. During the preliminary planning process, students, teachers, parents, and local residents will participate to provide ideas for spatial configuration.

Future schools are characterized by green schools aiming for low-carbon energy self-sufficiency, ICT-based intelligent (smart) classrooms, spatial innovation through user-participatory design, and the complexification of school facilities connecting with the local community.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Yoo Eun-hye said, "Future schools will serve as a stepping stone for our education to move forward into the future, and the process of creating future schools will be a great opportunity for participating students, parents, and teachers to grow together."

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