Busan Office of Education Supports 452 Charter Buses for 'Student Safety Education'

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will implement a vehicle support project connecting schools, regional safety experience hub centers, and the Busan 119 Safety Experience Center to provide safety experience education for students by the end of this year.

This measure aims to revitalize student safety experience education, reduce school-related safety education workload, and improve accessibility to experience centers.

On the 4th, the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education began vehicle support for two schools, including Gadong Elementary School in Gijang-gun, and plans to operate 452 charter buses with 45 seats for 128 schools and 14,306 students until December 29.

The Busan Office of Education stated that the charter buses are expected to contribute to enhancing accessibility to experience centers, eliminating safety threats during transit, securing student safety, and strengthening safety experience education.

Students of Gadong Elementary School are boarding a charter bus.

The Busan Office of Education is building and operating facilities to conduct experience-based safety education to raise safety awareness and develop crisis response skills. They operate the 'Busan Student Safety Experience Center,' which opened last year, and three classroom-type hub centers in the western, southern, and northern regions.

To provide distinctive and highly effective safety experience education at each hub center, they plan to invest 50 million KRW in the Southern Hub Center and 150 million KRW in the Northern Hub Center to expand VR experience facilities and enlarge the experience center scale by the end of this year.

Additionally, to eliminate educational disparities between regions, enhance accessibility for schools in Dongnae and Haeundae regions without hub centers, and revitalize safety experience education, the construction of a 'Dongbusan Comprehensive Safety Experience Center' is also under consideration.

Shin Yong-chae, Director of School Safety at the Office of Education, said, "This vehicle support project will not only solve accessibility issues to experience centers but also greatly help improve satisfaction with on-site safety education. We will continue to invest and support school operations to ensure that safety education is conducted effectively."

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