Gyeongnam Superintendent of Education Candidate Kim Sang-kwon, the Unified Moderate-Conservative Candidate, "Making Eastern Gimhae an Educational Hub City!"

Kim Sang-kwon, the unified moderate-conservative candidate for Gyeongnam Superintendent of Education, announced his Gimhae education pledges on the 9th.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Kim Sang-kwon, the centrist-conservative unified candidate for Gyeongnam Superintendent of Education, announced on the 9th a pledge to develop Gimhae City as an educational hub in the eastern region.

Candidate Kim Sang-kwon stated, “Gyeongnam education is in a situation where teachers' authority and character education have collapsed, and the so-called 'blind education' continues, unable to properly diagnose even basic academic skills, causing students to no longer dream of hope.”

He emphasized, “We will activate the excellent educational capabilities of the Gimhae area and minimize outflow to other regions by supporting the development of prestigious high schools and creating distinguished private schools. We will nurture the emerging city of 560,000 people, which is newly rising as the center of the glorious history of the Gaya Kingdom, into a mecca of Gaya cultural education.”

Specific plans include ▲support for the development of Gaya culture-based educational curricula and books for elementary and middle schools ▲linking the Gyeongnam Student Comprehensive Academic Competition with the Gaya Culture Festival.

He also proposed support measures considering the many multicultural families, including foreign workers, international students, and marriage immigrant women.

“The number of foreign residents in Gimhae reaches 30,000, the highest among local governments in Gyeongnam,” he said, adding, “Measures are needed to address the academic decline and educational welfare blind spots of multicultural students.”

He pledged, “We will establish a Gimhae Multicultural Hub Center that can cooperate organically with Gimhae City to systematically provide multicultural education and attract international youth academic conferences to enhance educational synergy.”

He also promised long-term development plans for Gimhae Foreign Language High School and strengthened support for the cultivation of future-oriented vocational education model specialized high schools following the relocation of Gimhae Construction Technical High School.

He presented a plan to prevent middle school students from leaving the region and to select specialized education schools among local humanities high schools, nurturing prestigious high schools in Gimhae through a four-year plan.

“The Jinyeong Library in the Jinyeong district will be relocated to a new town, and the site will be transformed into a cultural space for citizens,” he said, adding, “We will also establish a Parent University within the Gimhae Office of Education as a channel to understand school education.”

Candidate Kim Sang-kwon appealed for support, saying, “This superintendent election is not simply about changing the superintendent. It is an election to restore the broken Gyeongnam education.”

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