"No Solution to Stop Student Decline?"... Gyeongbuk Office of Education and Jeonnam Office of Education Join Forces

Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) is conducting the second day of the ‘2023 Second Half Yeong-Honam Education Exchange Workshop’ with Jeonnam Office of Education (Superintendent Kim Dae-jung) at The-K Hotel Gyeongju on the 6th to promote communication, cooperation, and mutual growth on educational issues.

The Yeong-Honam Education Exchange Workshop is a platform established to share excellent educational cases from both offices of education and to seek mutual cooperation measures on common issues.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Education (left), and Kim Dae-jung, Superintendent of Jeonnam Education, are speaking at a workshop.

The workshop proceeded with discussions on common themes, presentations of best practices, and inter-departmental work consultations, while promising active cooperation to establish and respond to educational policies reflecting changes in the school-age population amid the common issue of declining student numbers.

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education presented cases such as attracting overseas students to vocational high schools, the Gyeongbuk Future Education District and the small school free school district system, and the operation of Gyeongbuk Hope Schools. They also shared cases of operating remote video classes between Gyeongbuk and Jeonnam. Additionally, participants experienced the Gyeongju Safety Experience Center and toured Yangdong Village in Gyeongju, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to share information and foster communication.

Superintendent Lim Jong-sik of Gyeongbuk Office of Education stated, “Through mutual exchange activities, I hope that the two regions will jointly respond to common issues such as the decline in student numbers and cooperate to overcome the crisis of regional extinction.” He added, “We will strengthen cooperation in promoting educational policies so that students from both Gyeongbuk and Jeonnam can grow into global talents.”

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