Haenam-gun Museondong Hanok Village Selected for Jeonnam Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Study Abroad Program Competition

Local Governments and Education Offices Collaborate to Support Urban Students' Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Study Programs

Haenam-gun Samsan-myeon Museondong Hanok Village (Photo by Haenam-gun)

[Haenam＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun] The Museondong Hanok Village in Samsan-myeon, Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do, has been selected for the 2021 Jeonnam Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Study Abroad Village contest hosted by the Jeollanam-do Office of Education.

According to the county on the 23rd, the Jeonnam Rural Agricultural and Fishing Village Study Abroad Village is a project where students from cities outside Jeonnam transfer to Jeonnam and live there for more than six months. Through organic cooperation among local governments, education offices, schools, and village education communities, customized education and ecological and environmental experiences are supported.

In particular, this project is expected to revitalize the local economy by saving small schools in rural fishing villages with declining populations, as well as to have a long-term effect of population inflow leading to returning farming and returning to rural areas.

Designated as a Jeonnam Hanok guesthouse village in 1997, Museondong Hanok Village has about 15 households of Hanok guesthouses clustered together. Samsan Elementary School is located nearby, and Duryunsan Mountain and Daeheungsa Temple are five minutes away, making it possible to experience various activities in pristine nature, emerging as a popular area for returning farming and returning to rural living.

The county plans to operate the study abroad village project targeting 10 households within the Hanok village, providing 200,000 KRW per person per month from the second semester, and 400,000 KRW per household per month for family stay-type participating households as study abroad expenses.

Earlier, Haenam-gun laid the groundwork for support by enacting an ordinance on rural study abroad support in April to promote rural study abroad without any gaps in project implementation.

County Governor Myeong Hyun-gwan said, “We will successfully develop the rural agricultural and fishing village study abroad project through close cooperation among all community groups in the local society, including Haenam-gun, Haenam Education Support Office, and residents' autonomy committees,” and added, “We will actively support it so that it can be an opportunity for local economic revitalization and population inflow.”