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[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is investing 50 billion KRW to promote a school space restructuring project.

On the 8th, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that it has secured a budget of 50.3 billion KRW for this year's school space restructuring project "Classrooms Filled with Dreams," which is six times more than last year, and will carry out space restructuring in 167 schools.

The "Classrooms Filled with Dreams" project is a program where students, teachers, parents, and other school members collaborate with Dream Architects to redesign spaces reflecting the characteristics of each school. Starting this year, to improve design quality, the support cost per classroom will be increased from 60 million KRW to 69 million KRW.

The project is divided into six categories: ▲ Elementary, Middle, and High School Dream Classrooms ▲ Collaborative Comprehensive Arts (Performance Halls) ▲ Credit System-Based Educational Spaces (High Schools) ▲ Library and Cultural Facilities ▲ Various Model Developments (Special Classrooms) ▲ Special Class Space Innovation.

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will focus on improving first-grade elementary school classrooms. To help students adapt to school and reassure parents, 60% (30 billion KRW) of the Dream project budget will be invested in Seoul-type First Grade Dream Classrooms. A total of 100 schools will receive support.

The Dream Classroom project proceeds in the following order: ▲ School application and project selection ▲ Matching Dream Architects to each school ▲ User-participatory design (workshops and curriculum linkage) ▲ Design and construction ▲ Post-monitoring.

The project targets are balanced by district and grade level, and a selection committee composed of internal and external experts determines the recipients considering educational disparities, project scale, and regional characteristics.

Cho Hee-yeon, Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, stated, "Together with the educational community, we will create school spaces that blend learning, rest, and play into living spaces, and innovate students' main living spaces into creative and emotional spaces in preparation for changes in future society."

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