Lim Jongsik, Gyeongbuk Superintendent of Education: "Preventing School Violence Begins with Small Daily Practices, Not Grand Slogans"

Campaign Held at Gyeongbuk Ilgo High School

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jongsik) announced that on September 1, it held a pilot run of the "No School Violence, Pork Soup Rice (An Doiji Gukbap)" campaign at Gyeongbuk Ilgo High School as part of the 2026 "School Violence ZERO Challenge."

This campaign is a follow-up to the "Rice Ball Instead of Fists" campaign conducted in the first semester of 2025. It is a school violence prevention program linked to school lunches, designed to help students naturally learn the values of consideration and respect in their daily lives.

Lim Jongsik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education (center), emphasized while having a meal with students at Gyeongbuk Ilgo High School in Yecheon County that school violence does not start with grand slogans but begins with small practices in daily life.

The event took place at the Gyeongbuk Ilgo High School Food Education Center during lunchtime, with student council members and members of the student-led school violence prevention club taking the lead. Students organized a school violence prevention performance using character costumes, placards, and sashes, and chanted slogans.

The lunch menu featured creative names such as "Flower Seed Mixed Grain Rice for Planting Flowers in a Friend's Heart," "No School Violence, Pork Soup Rice," "Let's Get Along Shrimp," "Heart-Shaped Ham and Egg Full of Love," and "Radish Salad for Great Friendship."

After the meal, students led additional school violence prevention activities, including writing acrostic poems with friends' names, hanging messages on a wishing tree, taking photos with friends at the photo zone, and exchanging kind words. In particular, a busking performance by the teacher-student school violence prevention club served as a meaningful stage, demonstrating their commitment to a school free of violence.

Lim Jongsik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, stated, "Preventing school violence does not begin with grand slogans, but with small practices in daily life." He added, "Through this pilot program, we were able to clarify the goals and direction of next year's school violence prevention campaign linked to the Food Education Center. We will continue to spread a warm school culture filled with respect and consideration through creative, student-led school violence prevention campaigns."

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