Gokseong County Future Education Foundation and Gokseong Study Abroad Families Together Present "Exciting Gokseong Everywhere"

Parents Share Experiences of Gokseong People and Life in Gokseong

[Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun] The Jeonnam Gokseong-gun Future Education Foundation announced that from October 17 to December 4, it conducted the “Exciting Gokseong Everywhere” Gokseong Charm Discovery Program in four sessions with seven families who came to Gokseong for rural study abroad.

The program was operated in four themes?forest, rural, culture, and communication experience?in connection with village educational resources within Gokseong.

The first session, the forest experience, was held at the National Gokseong Healing Forest and Jewol Island. Using Gokseong’s representative resource, the forest, a forest healing program was provided to the study abroad families, and an orienteering forest education was conducted where participants ran around Jewol Island with maps and compasses.

The second session was a rural experience at the Sky Lily Rural Experience Village in Jukgok-myeon, where participants picked Daebong persimmons and made paste using dried persimmons. Gokseong study abroad parents and students carefully picked persimmons in the farmer’s orchard and took time to think from the farmer’s perspective.

The third session was a cultural experience held at the Haeam Pottery Workshop in Jukgok-myeon. Participants made their own pottery by turning the wheel and experienced deep rural culture by cooking and eating pumpkin porridge made from old pumpkins.

The fourth session was a communication experience held at the Gokseong Dream Growth Maru. Students received creative convergence education such as tree climbing training and Cospace, while parents shared their experiences of living in and being part of the Gokseong community.

They shared communication time with parents who moved from the city to Gokseong to raise their children, exchanging experiences of the short but meaningful 6 months to 1 year of Gokseong study abroad, and the program concluded with an introduction to the educational projects the foundation will promote in 2022.

A parent who relocated to Gokseong said, “The local community in Gokseong focuses on raising each child sincerely and makes efforts with genuine care, providing many opportunities for children to create their own stories,” concluding their story about living in Gokseong. Gokseong study abroad parents expressed gratitude, saying, “It was a great opportunity to discover various charms of Gokseong with our children. It feels like we have a second hometown,” and “The rural study abroad life in Gokseong allowed children to deeply feel nature and develop ecological sensitivity, and it was a healing experience not only for the children but also for the parents.”

A representative of the Gokseong-gun Future Education Foundation said, “We will continue to promote rural study abroad to Gokseong and operate unique programs to introduce every corner of Gokseong. Furthermore, we plan to steadily promote various educational projects for our Gokseong children.”

Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun cha6960@asiae.co.kr

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