Busan Gijang-gun supports scholarships to promote lifelong education for its residents.
On the 30th, Gijang-gun announced that it signed a business agreement with Busan Digital University on the 29th to support local residents' participation in lifelong learning and to lead the development of lifelong learning in the region.
Jeong Jong-bok, head of Gijang County (third from the left), and Choi Won-il, president (second from the left), are signing the agreement and taking a commemorative photo.
Busan Digital University is the first cyber university established in the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam (Bu-Ul-Gyeong) area and was selected as the entrusted operator of the 2023 Gijang-gun Residents University project, currently operating the Gijang-gun Residents University. Through this business agreement, both parties agreed to mutually cooperate to revitalize lifelong learning, including providing scholarship benefits to Gijang-gun residents.
The main contents of the agreement include ▲providing a 30% scholarship on tuition fees for Gijang-gun residents enrolled in undergraduate courses at Busan Digital University (for students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher) ▲providing a 50% scholarship on tuition fees per course for Gijang-gun residents enrolled in the Credit Bank System at the Lifelong Education Center ▲developing mutual cooperative projects and exchanging information to promote lifelong learning ▲and establishing other organic cooperative relationships.
Jung Jong-bok, the county governor, said, “I hope this will be an opportunity for residents to utilize the university’s high-quality educational programs to develop themselves and strengthen their capabilities,” adding, “We will actively support continuous public-academic cooperation to provide diverse lifelong learning opportunities and improve the quality of life for our residents.”
For more details, please contact the Gijang-gun Education and Youth Division or Busan Digital University.
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