Eunseo Park, Damyang-gun Council Member, Proposes Measures to Promote the Importance of 'Nongchon Yuhak'

Park Eun-seo, a member of the Damyang County Council, announced on the 11th that she delivered a 5-minute free speech on the importance of the ‘Nongchon Yuhak’ policy, which can revitalize population inflow and rural schools, and ways to promote it at the 2nd plenary session of the 323rd Damyang County Council temporary meeting held on the 8th.

In her 5-minute speech, Councilor Park explained that ‘Nongchon Yuhak’ is a program where children and adolescents living in cities attend rural schools for more than six months and experience rural life.

She stated that Nongchon Yuhak serves as an active educational policy that induces the settlement of student families through returning to farming and rural areas, allowing cities and rural areas to coexist and prosper together, and is an effective population inflow policy amid the population extinction crisis.

To this end, she proposed developing various models of Nongchon Yuhak, preparing residential spaces where students and families wishing to participate in Nongchon Yuhak can live comfortably, and forming consultative bodies involving local governments, village communities, education offices, and schools.

Councilor Park expressed hope that by protecting small schools through Nongchon Yuhak, it would not only overcome the extinction of rural villages and revitalize the local economy but also contribute to population growth in the long term by leading to returning to farming and rural living.

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