Jeongeup City Selected for “2026 Lifelong Learning City for Persons with Disabilities” Project for Second Consecutive Year

Jeongeup City has been selected for the second consecutive year for the Ministry of Education’s National Institute of Special Education-led public contest project, “2026 Lifelong Learning City for Persons with Disabilities,” thereby solidifying its status as a leading city in lifelong learning for people with disabilities.

Provided by Jeongeup City

With this selection, Jeongeup City has secured 80 million won in national funding and will add 84 million won from the city budget, investing a total project cost of 164 million won. Through this, the city will fully promote customized lifelong learning programs aimed at guaranteeing learning rights for persons with disabilities across all stages of life and strengthening their capacity for independent living.

This year’s project goes beyond simply providing education and will be operated as a “community win-win type lifelong learning” model linked with local resources. The main programs will consist of 27 courses across 7 areas: on-site village classrooms, adult literacy education, humanities and liberal arts, jobs and career paths, culture, arts and physical education, and rights-based civic education, with an expected total participation of about 980 persons with disabilities.

For efficient project implementation, a cooperative system has been established with the Jeongeup City Comprehensive Welfare Center for the Disabled as the hub and five specialized institutions in the city (Jeonbuk Association for the Physically Disabled Jeongeup Chapter, Nanumvill, Jeongeup Association for the Visually Impaired Jeongeup Chapter, Jeongeup Saemgol Night School, and Pureunnarae Day Care Center). Each institution plans to operate programs that leverage its own characteristics and expertise, thereby enhancing the project’s effectiveness.

Through this project, Jeongeup City plans to build a dense learning safety net that includes even persons with severe or elderly disabilities who have low access to learning, and to strengthen support so that education does not stop at simple learning but leads to social participation and economic independence.

Mayor Lee Haksoo of Jeongeup City said, “Being selected for two consecutive years is the result of consistently making lifelong learning for persons with disabilities a core value of the city administration,” adding, “Jeongeup City will continue to create a systematic lifelong learning environment so that persons with disabilities can take the lead in learning and growing within the local community.”

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