Gyeongbuk Office of Education Conducts This Year's 'Children's Disaster Safety Training'... Self-awareness and Disaster Overcoming Drills

Published 08 Jul.2022 12:51(KST)

Updated 09 Aug.2025 17:08(KST)

Enhancing Execution Capability by Finding and Applying Self-Directed Coping Methods

Students of Anjeong Elementary School in Yeongju, Gyeongbuk participating in fire drill training during a fire emergency.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwiyeol] The Gyeongbuk Office of Education conducted a 'Children's Disaster Safety Training' in the first half of this year targeting 8 elementary schools and 1 special school in the province to develop students' ability to overcome disaster crisis situations on their own.

The 'Children's Disaster Safety Training' aims to move away from the traditional teacher-centered training method and instead enable students to directly identify surrounding hazards based on the educational content, and further develop the ability to find and execute self-directed response methods in the event of a disaster.

This training consisted of four sessions: ▲Understanding disasters and role-playing ▲Creating evacuation maps and writing disaster response scenarios ▲Conducting simulation training ▲Conducting field training.

Students participating in the training took part as active designers rather than passive listeners, which greatly helped them cultivate the ability to protect their own bodies in actual disaster situations.

Students of Andong Yeongmyeong School (special) participating in emergency first aid training in case of patient occurrence.

The disaster safety training also moved many by the passionate participation of students from Andong Yeongmyeong School, a special school, despite their physical difficulties.

Kim Dongsik, Director of the Education Safety Division, said, “Through the Children's Disaster Safety Training, we hope that students will recognize the risks of disasters and improve their ability to overcome disaster crisis situations on their own,” adding, “Furthermore, we will continue to expand and operate disaster safety training in the second half of the year.”