Financial Industry Foundation and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Sign Agreement for Elementary Students' Financial Life

"Business Agreement for Cultivating Economic and Financial Practical Competencies in Elementary School Students"

Shin Sang-hoon, CEO of the Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation (left), and Cho Hee-yeon, Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (right), are posing for a commemorative photo after signing an agreement on Thursday, the 21st, at the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education located in Sinmunno, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] The Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation announced on the 21st that it has signed a business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to cultivate economic and financial practical competencies among elementary school students.

The Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education signed the agreement to establish a mutual cooperation system for creating an educational environment and sharing human and material resources to activate economic and financial education, enabling elementary school students to form correct attitudes and habits toward economic life as economic agents. They agreed to share the outcomes of this collaboration.

Under this agreement, the two organizations will mutually cooperate in ▲ supporting and operating economic and financial education experience programs linked to the curriculum ▲ providing consultation to activate elementary economic and financial education.

The Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation will operate play and experience programs using videos, activity sheets, and kits after professional instructors deliver themed financial education lectures to 1st to 6th-grade elementary school students (a total of 100 schools) in the 2021 academic year. Additionally, the musical performance program will be conducted by watching themed performances in the audiovisual rooms or auditoriums of the applying schools, followed by students presenting their impressions. Especially amid the COVID-19 situation, the program will support viewing in classrooms through live broadcasts as a non-face-to-face performance.

Shin Sang-hoon, CEO of the Financial Industry Public Interest Foundation, stated, “Since South Korea has already entered the ranks of advanced countries, we will strive to expand financial education nationwide through this agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education so that all young people can acquire practical financial knowledge from an early age and grow into rational economic agents.”