‘The 1st I Am an Instructor!’ … Busan City Finalizes Selection of 6 Leading Economic Education Instructors

Evaluation After Direct Lectures to Citizens... Additional 3rd Lecture Contest

Winners of Excellence Award or Higher to Receive Mayor's Award and Annual Lecture Guarantee

Busan City has finalized the selection of six representative instructors through the ‘1st I Am an Instructor!’ program, a representative instructor selection and training program for economic education.

The selected participants and officials of the "1st I am an Instructor!" are taking a group photo after the awards ceremony.

The ‘1st I Am an Instructor!’ program was established to discover and nurture capable ‘economic education instructors’ who can raise citizens’ awareness and interest in economic education and help them acquire and understand economic knowledge.

When planning this program, the city differentiated the instructor selection process by adding a new ‘3rd lecture contest,’ where candidates directly lecture and are evaluated by citizens, to the existing method of selecting instructors through the 1st document screening and 2nd internal interview, thereby linking the selection process itself with ‘economic education.’

In the 1st document screening, 12 candidates were selected out of a total of 18 applicants, and in the 2nd interview screening, six final successful candidates were selected through lecture demonstrations followed by Q&A sessions.

In the 3rd lecture contest, the six candidates selected in the 2nd interview gave lectures directly to citizens, and judges evaluated them to decide the winners: one grand prize, one excellence award, one merit award, and three encouragement awards. The 3rd lecture contest was held on the 30th of last month at 2 p.m. in the main conference room of the Busan Regional Economic Education Center at the Busan Research Institute.

The six candidates selected in the 2nd interview each chose various topics and passionately competed in lectures aimed at citizens during the 3rd lecture contest.

The grand prize winner, Youngmi Jeong, gave a lecture on the topic ‘Protecting Credit and Money,’ where she used a dice game to help participants learn credit management tips and actively encouraged citizen participation, which stood out.

Sanghyun Yoon, who received the excellence award, lectured on the topic ‘Financial Portfolio Experience Using Smart Devices,’ and was praised for the innovative approach of enabling participants to learn asset management methods on the spot through a smartphone game app.

Hoseok Lee, the merit award recipient, lectured on the topic ‘Investment Ideas Found in Everyday Life,’ explaining stock investment by comparing it to everyday subjects such as BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan), OTT (over-the-top) drama, and casinos, which received favorable reviews from citizens.

Additionally, the three encouragement award winners?Miyeon Kim (lecture topic: ‘The History of the Development of Korean Currency’), Jingon Kim (lecture topic: ‘Key Economic and Financial Indicators and Rational Financial Habits for People in Their 20s’), and Geonwoo Kim (lecture topic: ‘Exciting Stock Investment’)?also attracted citizens’ attention with their unique lecture topics.

The three winners who received the merit award or higher in the ‘1st I Am an Instructor!’ program will be awarded the Busan Mayor’s Award and granted a guaranteed minimum annual lecture time (Grand Prize: 30 hours, Excellence Award: 20 hours, Merit Award: 10 hours) as a special benefit.

The three encouragement award winners will be awarded the Busan Research Institute Director’s Award.

Shin Changho, Director of the Digital Economy Innovation Office of Busan City, stated, “The ultimate goal of economic life is to live a happy life. I hope that the economic education representative instructors selected through the ‘I Am an Instructor!’ program will serve as a foundation for each citizen to become happier.”

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