Former Kyungpook National University President Kim Sangdong (66), who is expected to run for Gyeongbuk Superintendent of Education, and former Gimcheon Education Superintendent Ma Sookja (66) will begin an opinion poll after agreeing to unify their candidacies.
The Gyeongbuk Education Companion Forum, an education group that is promoting the single-candidate process, announced on the 6th that "from the 7th to the 9th, for three days, an opinion poll on the unification of candidates for the Gyeongbuk superintendent of education election will be conducted targeting Standing Co-Chairs Kim Sangdong and Ma Sookja, and the results will be announced at 2:00 p.m. on the 11th at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education."
Former Kyungpook National University president Kim Sangdong (left) and former Gimcheon superintendent of education Ma Sukja are holding an online forum.
A representative of the Gyeongbuk Education Companion Forum said, "Two polling agencies will each survey 1,000 respondents, and support ratings will be determined based on the average."
On the afternoon of the 5th, former President Kim and former Superintendent Ma held an online forum via a live YouTube broadcast and exchanged views on various pending issues surrounding the Gyeongbuk education field.
At the forum, Gyeongbuk Education Companion Forum Standing Co-Chairs Kim Sangdong and Ma Sookja participated as panelists and shared their experiences and perspectives, focusing on questions raised in schools. Rather than presenting specific conclusions or positions on current issues such as school mergers and closures, the problem of closed schools, and students with migrant backgrounds, the forum proceeded in a format that shared the concerns of the education field through on-site Q&A.
Former President Kim served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Kyungpook National University and held key posts such as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of Planning before serving as president for four years starting in 2016. He is currently the head of the Gyeongbuk Lifelong Talent Education Foundation, a public institution under North Gyeongsang Province. Former Superintendent Ma began her career as an elementary school teacher in the Gyeongbuk region and went on to serve as Director of Elementary Education at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education, Principal of Andong Elementary School, and Superintendent of Education in Gimcheon. In 2002, she ran for Gyeongbuk Superintendent of Education, winning 27.7% of the vote but finishing second and losing the race.
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