Pocheon City Conducts Benchmarking Visit to Ansan Wongok Elementary School

Pocheon City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Baek Younghyeon), announced on the 20th that it had visited Ansan Wongok Elementary School on the 18th to benchmark excellent cases of educational curriculum and facility operation for students with migration backgrounds (multicultural).

Pocheon City visited Ansan Wongok Elementary School on the 18th to benchmark excellent cases of educational curriculum and facility operation for students with migration backgrounds (multicultural). Photo by Pocheon City

This visit was conducted in response to the increasing number of multicultural students in the city and to explore policy measures for creating a customized educational environment for students.

On site, more than 30 participants attended, including Pocheon Mayor Baek Younghyeon, officials from the Pocheon Youth Foundation, the Gyeonggi-do Pocheon Office of Education, and the school principal.

At Ansan Wongok Elementary School, 90.2% of the students are from multicultural backgrounds. Since being designated as an international innovation school in the multicultural field in 2019, the school has operated a special Korean language class for multicultural students. It has also taken the lead in improving educational infrastructure by completing a spatial restructuring project.

Mayor Baek Younghyeon stated, "Based on the cases and operational experience gained through this benchmarking, we plan to strengthen Pocheon City's support policies for multicultural students," adding, "We will continue to create an inclusive educational environment where students from diverse cultural backgrounds can grow without discrimination."

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