Jang Seok-woong, Jeonnam Education Superintendent Candidate, Announces '5 Core Educational Welfare Promises'

'Special Education Recovery Support Fund' 200,000 Won Support

Jang Seok-woong, candidate for Jeonnam Superintendent of Education, announced five key pledges for 'Customized Educational Welfare.' Photo by Jang Seok-woong Election Office

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jun-kyung] Jang Seok-woong, candidate for Jeonnam Superintendent of Education, announced five key pledges for ‘customized educational welfare.’

On the 24th, candidate Jang held a press conference at the Jeonnam Office of Education and stated, “Jeonnam education will go beyond universal welfare and open the nation’s best ‘customized welfare era.’”

Candidate Jang self-assessed, “Over the past four years, Jeonnam education has implemented the nation’s highest level of universal educational welfare. No one was discriminated against, everyone enjoyed benefits evenly, and all students nurtured future hopes by developing their talents and abilities.”

He continued, “Jeonnam education completed free high school education two years ahead of the government plan, supported elementary students’ learning supply costs, and increased support for experiential learning expenses such as school trips. For student commuting, we introduced the nation’s first ‘Edu Taxi,’ and provided ‘Special Educational Recovery Support Funds’ to educational families struggling due to COVID-19,” emphasizing these efforts.

Candidate Jang promised to realize educational welfare justice by significantly increasing support for socially marginalized low-income families, multicultural families, and special education, pledging to implement the ‘five key tasks of customized educational welfare.’

The ‘five key tasks of customized educational welfare’ include ▲providing 200,000 KRW special educational recovery support funds to all students in Jeonnam ▲realizing free education in private kindergartens ▲improving educational conditions in daycare centers and additionally supporting 1,000,000 KRW for regional children’s center program expenses, expanding support for teaching materials, teaching aids, and learning programs ▲establishing a Special Education Promotion Institute ▲supporting 800,000 KRW for learning supplies for students from multicultural families, expanding after-school tuition support for low-income families in rural areas, and providing 1,000 laptops to children from low-income families.

Candidate Jang stated, “The additional 48.2 billion KRW budget needed this year to implement the ‘five key tasks of customized educational welfare’ will be reflected in the July supplementary budget, and projects to be executed from next year will be carefully reviewed and included in next year’s budget.”

He also promised, “To meet the educational needs according to each student’s individual situation and requirements, we will expand educational activity support funds per student up to 2 million KRW. We will strengthen collaboration with local governments and reorganize the educational welfare budget already allocated to the Office of Education to secure the necessary resources.”