Gyeongbuk Office of Education Achieves Overall Victory for 4 Consecutive Years at National Skills Competition

Park Minhyuk from Gyeongbuk Selected as Most Valuable Player

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) achieved a historic feat by winning the overall championship for four consecutive years for the first time ever (and six consecutive years in the student division) at the 58th Chungnam National Skills Competition held over seven days from the 14th to the 20th at six venues including the Boryeong Mud Expo Site in Chungnam.

In this competition, Gyeongbuk sent a delegation of 147 athletes across 48 job categories, winning a total of 89 awards (the highest nationwide) including 9 gold, 15 silver, 18 bronze, 11 excellence, and 36 encouragement awards in 42 categories, securing the overall championship based on cumulative points.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, is encouraging the participants from the Gyeongbuk region who achieved four consecutive overall victories at the National Skills Competition.

In particular, the Gyeongbuk Office of Education’s student team, consisting of 123 athletes from 26 schools, played a leading role in the overall championship by winning 8 gold, 10 silver, 15 bronze, 11 excellence, and 31 encouragement awards across 36 categories.

Among them, Park Min-hyuk, a third-year student at Gyeongbuk Software High School, who won the gold medal in the cloud computing category, was selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the competition out of 1,691 participants and received the Presidential Citation.

Additionally, among the 386 participating institutions (including 262 schools), Geumoh Technical High School and Silla Technical High School, recognized as prestigious vocational high schools in Gyeongbuk, received institutional awards as two of the top six outstanding institutions. Geumoh Technical High School was awarded the Silver Tower (3 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze, 7 encouragement awards), and Silla Technical High School received the Bronze Tower (1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze, 2 encouragement awards).

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education has demonstrated its strength by never missing the overall championship in the student division for six years since winning its first overall championship at the 53rd Jeollanam-do National Skills Competition in 2018.

This achievement is the result of Gyeongbuk vocational high schools’ excellent vocational education environment and systematic education system, reaffirming that Gyeongbuk vocational high schools are truly the top level nationwide in skilled trades.

Superintendent Lim Jong-sik of the Gyeongbuk Office of Education said, “I congratulate the students and instructors who achieved the historic feat of winning the overall championship for four consecutive years and the student division for six consecutive years at the National Skills Competition, the dream stage for skilled workers. We will continue to strive to create an educational environment where students of Gyeongbuk vocational high schools can become the best protagonists not only in skills competitions but also in various industrial fields in Korea.”

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