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4 3 Ը ̸, ̴ 16 Ϳ 2 80 α ߴ ؿ ܿ Ȯ Ը. ̹ ȸ Ҽ 13 мͰ ϸ, ãƿ л 140 ش ϴ л 95 235 ûҳ ް ȴ. Ư ū ܼ ä α ' ȭ' ߴٴ ̴. ָ̳ Ⱓ ܹ ̷ 1ȸ ü ϰ, мͰ ġ ° ڿ л Ž Ŀŧ ġߴ.
ǥ Ưȭ α 캸 泲 ' ˵ ádz', õ 'ӻ ', ּ ' ȨĿ ũ ', ȳ ' ڸ ' äο üȭƴ. ǰδ ܼ ϴ ġ ʰ, ü踦 ǽð ȹ̴. Ǵ ȸ Ͽ Ÿ ü Ȯϴ ȯ ý ħ̴.
ó ֵϿ α Ҹ 忡 л ԽŰ, ̸ ȸ Ȱ° Ϸ õ 鿡 ſ å ´. Ư ȭü ߽ л鿡Ե ǰ ȸ ϰ Ѵٴ ȸ ġ ũ.
̷ å ֱ 鸮 ܱ⼺ ӹ ʱ ؼ, α ȭ Ѿ л ȯ濡 ϰ ̵ ֵ ְ ڸ å ݵǾ߸ Ѵ. ܼ ָ ü ø δ 뵵 ü 米 ͼ кθ ϱ ŭ, û Ǹ ̼ ϴ μƼ긦 Ȯϰ ü ϰ ϴ Ȱ ü踦 и ٽ .
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Jeon Han-yeong, Director General of the Rural Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA), stated, "The rural study-abroad program is a project that provides a valuable opportunity for urban and rural children to learn and grow together. We expect this project to breathe new vitality into rural areas and serve as an opportunity to expand the foundation for continuous exchange and win-win cooperation between urban and rural communities." MAFRA announced that it will officially push forward the '2026 Rural Study Abroad Center Program Support Project' in collaboration with the Nonghyup Foundation to revitalize rural areas stagnant due to low birth rates and aging populations, and to resolve the educational infrastructure gap between urban and rural sectors. The Nonghyup Foundation, leveraging its expertise in promoting the welfare of vulnerable farming households and managing scholarship businesses, has contributed to creating a rural study-abroad ecosystem by supporting the National Council of Rural-Urban Study Abroad since 2025.
This year's project has been running since April with an expanded budget of 300 million won, a significant financial scale-up compared to last year when a total of 200 million won was utilized across 16 centers nationwide to operate about 80 programs. A total of 13 rural study-abroad centers affiliated with the council are participating in this iteration, allowing 235 adolescents—consisting of 140 students who moved from urban areas and 95 local students—to directly benefit from this co-existent educational project. The most distinct feature of this year's initiative is its emphasis on qualitative enrichment rather than simply meeting quantitative performance metrics. It departs from the previous one-time rural experience formats conducted temporarily during weekends or vacations, deploying long-term, continuous curricula that utilize the unique local ecosystems and historical resources of each center to help students regain emotional stability and explore future career paths.
Representative specialized programs have been materialized into diverse fields, including 'Traditional Calligraphy, Kendo Training, and Pungmul' at the Yangji Center in Nonsan, Chungnam; 'Ensemble Regular Classes' at the Huimangsup Center in Jecheon, Chungbuk; 'Rural Study Abroad Homecoming and Creator Education' at the Unju Center in Wanju, Jeonbuk; and 'Five Senses Satisfaction Constellation Observation' at the Omnaetgol Center in Gangjin, Jeonnam. Rather than merely providing financial subsidies, MAFRA plans to introduce a field monitoring and constant consulting network to manage educational quality in real-time. Furthermore, at the conclusion of the project, a nationwide outcome-sharing conference will be hosted to operate a precise feedback system that disseminates excellent local educational models to other municipalities.
The initiative driven by the government ministry and an agricultural public foundation to influx urban students into rural areas facing population extinction risks, while linking them to local community vitality, is assessed as a highly timely policy decision for balanced urban-rural development. In particular, it holds significant social value by equally providing high-quality educational opportunities to local rural students through the supply of culture, art, and sports infrastructure.
However, for these rural study-abroad support measures not to remain short-term projects that fluctuate based on budget investment cycles, authorities must go beyond simply advancing programs and instead implement comprehensive settlement support measures linking housing and employment to ensure study-abroad students can stably settle in rural environments and their families can actually migrate. Simply extending weekend experiences into long-term education is insufficient to continuously attract parents accustomed to the systematic private education infrastructure of major cities. Therefore, establishing institutional incentives, such as officially recognizing rural study-abroad experience as regular school coursework through close administrative coordination with regional offices of education, and solidifying a practical, daily-life support system that remodels idle local housing to provide it to studying families at affordable rates, is the vital key that will determine the long-term success of this project.
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