12th Children's Environmental Safety Exhibition runs Thursday through Saturday at Korea JobWorld in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province
The Ministry of Climate, Environment and Energy and the Korea Environment Institute will hold the 12th Children's Environmental Safety Exhibition at Korea JobWorld in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, from Thursday through Saturday.
This year's exhibition carries the theme "Grab the Job! A Start Toward Your Dream, Environmental Health That Protects Us," and will feature a range of career experience programs in partnership with Korea JobWorld.
The event is designed to let children explore careers such as environmental health specialist and environmental safety researcher firsthand, sparking interest in the field while teaching them how to protect their own health from everyday environmental hazards.
The program opens with a children's health protection ceremony featuring popular children's content creator "Yel Unni," followed by an environmental health career quiz show, a hands-on environmental health exhibition hall, and an impromptu dance contest centered on healthy living.
Author Kim Ji-hwon, known by the pen name Hwon Teacher, will host a book concert giving parents and children a chance to connect and interact.
For children unable to attend in person, an online exhibition will also run through June 30 via a dedicated website.
The ministry plans to continue inviting elementary school students from remote island and rural areas — where access to environmental health education is relatively limited — and to hold a forum for officials at certified child-safe facilities as well as a roundtable among agencies working to protect the health of environmentally sensitive groups.
Keum Han-seung, first vice minister of the Ministry of Climate, Environment and Energy, said the ministry had prepared a wide range of programs "so that children can naturally come to understand and practice the values of environmental health through experience and play," adding that it would "continue to expand participatory events to protect the health of future generations and raise awareness of environmental health."
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