Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul) signed a business agreement with the Gyeonggi Provincial Education Support Agency (Superintendent Won Soon Ja) on May 14 (Tuesday) at Kookmin University Headquarters to promote basic education and prevent and support dyslexia. 

With this agreement, the two organizations will cooperate in various fields such as △operating the government reading and learning support center, diagnosing and supporting the phenomenon of underachievement in basic education and dyslexia, and training basic education and dyslexia experts.

The Gyeonggi-do Government Education Support Agency is striving to foster future talents with basic character and basic competencies under the vision of 'Uijeongbu Education, a future education that converges with educational imagination and challenge. As part of this, it will collaborate with the Department of Education at Kookmin University to guarantee basic education and prevent and support the phenomenon of dyslexia.

“We are pleased to collaborate more fully with Kookmin University, which has been striving to diagnose dyslexia and support education, starting with this signing ceremony,” said Won Soon Ja, superintendent of the Gyeonggi Provincial Education Support Agency. “Through this cooperation, we will strive to achieve joint research results that can contribute to the development of education as a whole.”

Kookmin University President Jeong Seung Ryul also responded, saying, “Through this collaboration, we will continue to think about where universities can contribute to solving problems that are emerging across the education system.” “We will spare no effort to support the university so that the cooperation between the two institutions can blossom in many ways,” he said.

The MOU signing ceremony was attended by Kookmin University President Jeong Seung Ryul, Vice President for Academic Affairs Kim Hyung Jin, Vice President for Academic Affairs Na Chang Soon, Director of Industry-Academic Cooperation Lee In Hyung, Professors Yang Min Hwa and Jeong Sun Yung from the Department of Education, Superintendent Won Soon Ja of the Gyeonggi Provincial Education Support Agency, and scholars Lee Sang Soon, Choi Moon Young, Son Min Ah, Jeong Il Joo, and Cho Hye Ryun.