12 Disabled Students from Gyeongbuk Visit Dokdo … "An Experience to Realize the Value of Our Territory"

From the 22nd to the 25th, the Gyeongbuk Office of Education is conducting the '2023 Dokdo Guard Special Job Experience Event' over four days for students with special educational needs, their parents, and trainees with developmental disabilities from Gyeongbuk around the Dokdo and Ulleungdo areas.

This Dokdo visit program is a project jointly promoted with the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled. While there have been many Dokdo exploration programs for non-disabled students, there had been no programs targeting students with disabilities.

Students with disabilities, teachers, and parents from the Gyeongbuk region are visiting Dokdo and taking a commemorative photo.

Following last year, the Gyeongbuk Office of Education organized this event again this year to provide new experiences and broaden the horizons of students with disabilities through visits to Ulleungdo and Dokdo.

After last year's special Dokdo guard experience involving 49 participants including 6 students with disabilities, this year the number has been expanded to form a special experience group of 65 people, including 12 students with disabilities, trainees, parents, and special education teachers.

The special experience group will start with visits to Ulleungdo and Dokdo, tour major facilities such as the Dokdo Museum and Dokdo Observatory, and receive education related to the protection of Dokdo in connection with Chilgok Forest Center.

A teacher participating in this experience said, "By visiting Dokdo, a precious resource of Gyeongbuk, students with disabilities will realize the importance and beauty of our territory, and the experience will greatly help in fostering a correct understanding of history."

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