Icheon-si and Education Support Office Sign Subsidiary Agreement for 'Future Education Cooperation District'

3.84 Billion Invested to Promote 24 Detailed Projects

Gyeonggi-do Icheon City and the Icheon Office of Education will invest over 3.8 billion KRW in 24 projects for the future education of children and adolescents in the region.

On the 15th, Icheon City announced on the 16th that it had signed an annex agreement with the Icheon Office of Education to promote this year's 'Icheon Future Education Cooperation District' project. This annex agreement is a follow-up measure to the 'Icheon Future Education Cooperation District' business agreement that the city signed with the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education last year. The city and the provincial office of education have been promoting the Future Education Cooperation District project for three years from March last year to February 2026.

Kim Kyung-hee, Mayor of Icheon (left), and Kim Eun-jung, Superintendent of Icheon Office of Education, are holding up the supplementary agreement for the Future Education Cooperation District.
[Photo by Icheon City]

According to the annex agreement on that day, Icheon City and the Icheon Office of Education will invest a total budget of 3.845 billion KRW, with 3.345 billion KRW and 500 million KRW respectively, to carry out 24 detailed projects including school-specific educational activities, freshman adaptation activities, and youth career experience fairs.

The city explained that for this year's detailed projects, reflecting the results of surveys conducted on students, parents, and faculty members, it newly established a regionally tailored school sports project in the field of cultural and artistic education and expanded the scope of operation for school-specific educational activities and social participation citizen projects to increase the range of educational benefits.

Mayor Kim Kyung-hee said, "We will do our best to help children learn and grow in cooperation with the Icheon Office of Education and the Education Cooperation Support Center."

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