Gyeonggi Office of Education Launches Nation's First 'Korean Language Sharing School'... Opens in Ansan on the 17th

Im Tae-hee, Superintendent of Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, is delivering a greeting at the Multicultural Education Regional Cooperation Council meeting.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education is operating the 'Gyeonggi Korean Language Sharing School,' the first in the nation to provide intensive Korean language education for students from multicultural families.

On the 15th, the Office announced that to minimize learning delays and school dropouts caused by lack of Korean language proficiency among students from multicultural families and to support their entry into public education, the Gyeonggi Korean Language Sharing School will open in Ansan on the 17th.

The Ansan Korean Language Sharing School is directly operated by the Ansan Office of Education and has hired four retired teachers to provide Korean language education to students from multicultural families. They also developed 250 instructional sessions of teaching materials specifically for this education.

The Office plans to expand the Gyeonggi Korean Language Sharing School throughout the province, following Ansan, to Dongducheon (in November), Namyangju, Siheung, and other areas.

The Gyeonggi Korean Language Sharing School will offer various educational programs including ▲intensive Korean language education ▲bilingual education ▲psychological support in short-term (60 days) and long-term (one semester) formats.

Jo Young-min, Director of the Converged Education Policy Division at the Office of Education, said, "Through intensive Korean language education, we can nurture the strengths of students from multicultural families and support their growth into global talents," adding, "We will expand the Gyeonggi Korean Language Sharing School to present a new direction for multicultural education and create a pioneering model."

Meanwhile, the number of students from multicultural families in the province is 48,966, the highest in the nation, accounting for 26.2% of all such students nationwide.

The Office of Education is making various efforts to support the increasing number of students from multicultural families each year, including operating special multicultural classes, appointing fixed-term public officials, and developing multilingual supplementary materials for basic mathematics.

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