GED and Job Preparation Also with 'SeoulRun'... 300 Extracurricular Courses Available

121 GED Courses for Youth, 176 Certification and Employment Lectures, and Other Extracurricular Content Opened
‘Seoul Learn’ Platform to Be Completed by 2023 to Provide Lifelong Education Considering All Citizens' Life Cycles

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul-type education platform ‘SeoulLearn’ will begin offering non-curricular courses such as GED, certification, and employment lectures starting from the 8th. An ‘Open Lecture’ service, which can be accessed on the ‘SeoulLearn’ site without signing up or logging in, will also be added.

Currently, ‘SeoulLearn’ provides curriculum-centered learning content for low-income youth who have difficulty accessing learning resources. In addition, 121 GED courses and 176 professional certification and employment courses will be added through linkage with the Eduwill site.

These contents are expected to be especially helpful for ‘out-of-school youth’ who are preparing for academic qualifications such as the GED (60.6%) or planning employment through certifications (24.3%).

Furthermore, the ‘Open Lecture’ service, which can be used without signing up or logging in and is open to general youth and citizens, currently covers four fields: creative convergence, culture and arts, career and occupation, and civic education. It will be expanded to five fields with the addition of employment and certification.

In the newly added employment and certification field, 38 certification courses are offered, including Korean, Western, Japanese, and Chinese cuisine cooking technician, confectionery and baking technician, general, skin, nail, and makeup beautician, and tourist interpreter.

The career and occupation field of the ‘Open Lecture’ introduces promising jobs to youth interested in career and employment, while the creative convergence field provides creative content in the 4th industrial revolution sector, such as coding education.

The content from the YouTube channel of John Lee, CEO of Meritz Asset Management, added to the civic education field, consists of easy and useful financial knowledge that anyone from children to adults can comfortably listen to.

Starting next year, ‘SeoulLearn’ will expand its educational target to general youth and young adults. The platform will be fully established by 2023, aiming to provide lifelong education tailored to the life cycle of all citizens.

Lee Dae-hyun, Director of the Seoul Metropolitan Lifelong Education Bureau, said, “The newly added non-curricular courses on ‘SeoulLearn’ are expected to be very helpful for low-income, out-of-school, and multicultural youth preparing for the GED or employment,” and added, “We will continue to discover and expand content that all citizens can enjoy.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.