Geuinmo, Geochang County Governor, Receives Merit Award from National Lifelong Learning Cities Association

Lifelong Learning Gyeongnam Representative City Achievement
Double Honors: Merit Award and Excellent Policy Award

Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 5th that it received the Mayor's Commendation and the 2024 Korea Lifelong Learning City Excellent Policy Award at the regular general meeting of the National Lifelong Learning City Council.

The commendation was awarded to Gu In-mo, the mayor of Geochang, who has played a leading role as the representative of Gyeongnam’s lifelong learning cities since 2022.

Gu In-mo County Governor, Awarded the National Lifelong Learning City Association Merit Award Group Photo.

The Korea Lifelong Learning City Excellent Policy Award is given to institutions that have implemented exemplary lifelong education policies serving as a model for other organizations. Geochang-gun received the award under the title of “Growth to Maturity of Lifelong Learning City” with the theme “20th Anniversary Archiving and Vision Presentation of Lifelong Learning City.”

Mayor Gu In-mo said, “This award is the result of the active participation and passion of lifelong learning students and instructors, and I thank all the residents who have participated together. Based on the achievements of 20 years as a lifelong learning city, we are doing our best for a greater school, Geochang, where anything is possible. We are also putting all our efforts into attracting an education development special zone to realize the local era and enhance regional educational competitiveness.”

Meanwhile, Geochang-gun was selected as the first learning city in Gyeongnam in 2003 and has spread a culture of lifelong learning through about 500 diverse lifelong education programs and learning clubs annually.

In 2016, it became the first county-level city in Korea to hold an expo, participated in the International Association of Education Cities, operated a global camp in partnership with Stanford University, promoted humanities city projects, restructured the university lifelong learning system through the LIFE project, and implemented the vocational higher education HIVE project. In addition to advancing lifelong learning and project implementation, it has established itself as a leading learning city in Korea by recording an excellent case of 45 students enrolling in general high schools through adult literacy education.

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