[Photo] Gangnam-gu Signs Sister City Agreement with Grand Rapids, USA

[Seoul District Photo News] Kim Sooyoung, Yangcheon District Mayor, Attends 2021 Cooperative Student Integrated Support Education Guardian System Agreement Ceremony... Chaehyunil, Yeongdeungpo District Mayor, Attends Education Guardian System Agreement Ceremony

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Gangnam-gu (District Mayor Jeong Soon-gyun) held a sister city agreement ceremony online with Grand Rapids, USA, at Gangnam-gu Office on the 27th.

Through this agreement, both regions plan to establish a system for sharing advanced administrative cases, technology exchange, and mutual cooperation.

Attending the ceremony were Jeong Soon-gyun, Mayor of Gangnam-gu, Yang Mi-young, Director of Administration, Rosalyn Bliss, Mayor of Grand Rapids, and Mark Washington, City Manager.

Yangcheon-gu Mayor Kim Soo-young attended the 2021 Collaborative Student Integrated Support Education Guardian System agreement ceremony held at the Korea Press Center at 4 p.m. on the 27th and took a commemorative photo with Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon.

At the ceremony, six district mayors including Yangcheon-gu, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Eunpyeong-gu, Guro-gu, Seodaemun-gu, and Jungnang-gu were present.

The Education Guardian System is a policy that supports customized programs such as learning support, psychological counseling, and care for children and adolescents through a neighborhood-level education safety net council.

Yangcheon-gu was finally selected in July for the pilot project of the Education Guardian System and has been continuously working since August to build a dense education safety net through integrated educational welfare.

‘Education Guardians’ can include retired teachers, parents, and community activists, who undergo background checks for sex crime records and complete 30 hours of basic training before engaging in full activities.

Yeongdeungpo-gu Mayor Chae Hyun-il attended the Education Guardian System agreement ceremony held at the Korea Press Center on the afternoon of the 27th and took a commemorative photo with Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon.

The six districts including Yeongdeungpo-gu agreed to closely cooperate based on the Education Guardian policy to promote the integrated growth of children and adolescents and to resolve educational polarization according to this business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

The district plans to solidly promote the Education Guardian project together with community organizations to ensure more effective integrated support for children and adolescents.

Mayor Chae Hyun-il said, “Starting with this agreement, we will strive to build a dense local community education safety net to achieve ‘complete growth without leaving any child behind.’”

Gwangjin-gu (District Mayor Kim Seon-gap) conducted proactive testing for workers at the KT site construction site on the 27th to prevent group infections within large construction sites.

This proactive testing was conducted by installing a ‘Seoul City Mobile Screening Clinic’ within the construction site to reduce workers’ movement and provide testing convenience.

The test was conducted on all 200 workers at the construction site, including the developer, contractor, supervision team, partner companies, and laborers.

Prior to this, on the 23rd, the district instructed all workers returning after the Chuseok holiday to undergo proactive testing with self-diagnosis kits before entering the site and thoroughly disinfected the construction site’s rest areas, meeting rooms, and internal and external access vehicles to prepare for any possible infection spread.

Gwangjin-gu Mayor Kim Seon-gap said, “As the spread of COVID-19 is serious, we have operated a mobile screening clinic to proactively prevent group infections. Please strictly follow quarantine rules for your family, neighbors, and colleagues, and actively participate in vaccination.”

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