Yongsan District to Reopen Renovated Lifelong Learning Center on March 3... Recruiting for Special Lectures and Courses

Registration Open for 1st Term Lifelong Learning Courses

Yongsan District in Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) will reopen its Lifelong Learning Center (224-19 Itaewon-ro) on March 3 after completing six months of remodeling work, and will officially launch a variety of lifelong education programs.

Noun Special Lecture Poster. Provided by Yongsan-gu.

The Lifelong Learning Center underwent a full-scale renovation from August 11, 2025, to February 28, 2026, resulting in a comfortable learning environment and modern educational facilities. Located together with the Yongsan District 50 Plus Center, it is now evaluated as a space where people of all ages can continue learning as part of their daily lives. Yongsan District's achievements in lifelong education policy were also recognized externally last year when it won the Excellence Award at the Lifelong Learning Awards.

As a signature program to celebrate the reopening, the "2026 Noun Special Lecture, 1st Session" will be held at 2 p.m. on March 31 at the Small Theater of Yongsan Art Hall. The theme of the lecture is "Do You Know Don Quixote? Why Don Quixote Now?" and it will be led by Professor Ahn Young-ok, a Spanish literature specialist and translator of "Don Quixote." The event is designed to reflect on today's values and direction in life through the character of Don Quixote, who persistently questions the boundary between ideals and reality. After the lecture, there will be a Q&A session and a book signing. Any resident of Yongsan District can participate free of charge.

Additionally, the district is recruiting students for the "2026 Lifelong Learning 1st Term Courses," which cover the fields of humanities, culture and arts, practical skills, and digital technology. A balanced array of classes has been organized, including adult literacy classes, open lectures on world humanities, training programs for local resident instructors, an introduction to using conversational AI programs, flute and classical guitar lessons, ribbon crafts, and more, to encourage participation from all generations.

Applications for both the Noun Special Lecture and the lifelong learning courses are accepted online on a first-come, first-served basis via the Yongsan District Education Portal. For more details, inquiries can be made to the Education Support Division at 02-2199-6490.

Park Hee-young, Mayor of Yongsan District, stated, "We will expand high-quality programs centered around the newly renovated Lifelong Learning Center that foster both humanistic reflection and digital competency," adding, "Yongsan aims to move beyond simply operating educational programs to become a city that communicates with the world and grows together with the community through learning."

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