Gyeonggi Student Commuter Bus 'Uri Beot's' (Uri Bus) Final Selection

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Receives 13,245 Submissions from Students, Parents, Staff, and Citizens
9 Names Selected Including 'Uri Beot's (Uri Bus)' for School Commute Vehicles

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Tae-hee) announced on the 9th that the name of the student commuting vehicle has been selected as ‘Uri Beot's (Uri Bus)’.

Image of Gyeonggi student school bus 'Wooribeot's (Woori Bus)'. Provided by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education

The Office of Education held a ‘Student Commuting Vehicle Naming Contest’ and received a total of 13,245 entries. After three rounds of judging involving students, parents, and brand experts, nine works were finally selected.

‘Uri Beot's (Uri Bus)’ combines the pure Korean word for friend, ‘Beot,’ with the plural form ‘s,’ meaning ‘our friends.’ Through this wordplay, it can also be called ‘our bus,’ which students use together.

It embodies the meaning of a school bus where students think and care together with their friends on their way to school.

Along with this, a design was created to symbolically express the name ‘Uri Beot's (Uri Bus)’ for easy recall, and after patent attorney appraisal and legal consultation, it will be used in planning and implementing student commuting vehicles as well as various external promotional materials.

The Office of Education enacted the ‘Gyeonggi-do Student Commuting Support Ordinance’ in May 2021 and integrated the commuting vehicle tasks, which had been dispersed across several departments, into the Education Welfare Division through an organizational restructuring in March 2023.

Through this, the number of student commuting vehicles has been expanded by 60%, from 473 in 2022 to 759 in 2024, and a student commuting circular bus using a local government cooperative limited license method, which multiple schools can jointly use, is also operated to improve students’ commuting conditions.

Next year, they plan to actively support the creation of safe and convenient commuting routes for students.

Um Shin-ok, head of the Education Welfare Division at the Office of Education, said, “We will realize a high-quality student commuting support service reflecting local and school conditions,” and added, “We will implement Gyeonggi education policies with uniqueness and differentiation to help students grow healthily and happily.”

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