Gwangju City Sports Council and City Education Office Sign Agreement to Open School Sports Facilities

The Gwangju Metropolitan City Sports Council (Chairman Jeon Gap-su) announced on the 28th that it has signed a business agreement with the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education (Superintendent Lee Jeong-seon) to promote the activation of school sports facility openings.

About 20 executives and employees from both organizations attended the agreement ceremony, including Eom Gil-hoon, Director of Physical Education, Arts, and Character Education, and Kim Pil-mo, Superintendent.

This event marked the results of efforts made by the Sports Council and the Office of Education to expand and activate community sports facilities, serving as a time to form a consensus on sharing and mutual development.

Among the schools currently available for opening, 97% of auditoriums (185 out of 190 schools) and 98% of playgrounds (231 out of 235 schools) are open. Schools where educational activities such as students’ curriculum or safety concerns are at risk are excluded.

So far, the Sports Council and the Office of Education have reflected key contents mutually agreed upon to understand the status of openings in elementary, middle, and high schools in the area and to resolve school-specific demands in order to promote the signing of the agreement.

The agreement specifies ▲ active opening of school facilities within the scope that does not interfere with student educational activities and property management ▲ mediation of disputes between school sports facility user groups and schools ▲ support for education of representatives of school sports facility user groups ▲ establishment of a systematic management system for school sports facility user groups.

In particular, the Sports Council plans to actively cooperate in resolving disputes by providing facility safety education and distributing educational materials to user group representatives, and by linking with district sports councils and sports organizations.

Chairman Jeon Gap-su of the Sports Council said, “I hope that this agreement will serve as a foundation for the mutual development of schools and sports through the utilization of each organization’s infrastructure and collaboration, and for the activation of community sports to promote the health of 1.5 million Gwangju citizens.”

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