Upo Ecology Education Institute

Upo Ecological EducationInstitute belongs to the Gyeongsangnam-do office of Education. Gyeongsangnam-do has a population of 3.38 million and is the largest regional municipality in South Korea. The Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education is responsible for primary and secondary education and operates 689 kindergartens, 967 primary and secondary schools. It also employs more than 500,000 faculty and staff members and educates about 420,000 students. Upo Ecological Education Institute has Upo Wetland, Korea's largest inland wetland and natural wetland of about 231ha in the background. It is operated by 10 employees and conducts educational cooperation with 22 institutions.
This institution was operated as Upo Ecological Learning Center, an NGO, in 1999 using closed school facilities in rural areas. Since then, the Upo Ecological Education Institute was established in 2008 with the10th Ramsar General Assembly(Korea, Gyeongsangnam-do)and has served as a wetland education center for public education. Institution have mainly operated three activities, such as wetland education, teacher’s training program, foreign and domestic collaboration project. In detail, about 380 schools and 23,000 students are provided with wetland education by our center every year.