History

The educational situation for Korean society has changed so rapidly that it raised the public awareness on the need to launch the Student Crises Counseling and Support Project for all students at risk. Therefore, the Project has been designed to provide a support system of ‘Diagnosis-Counseling-Healing’ for students in personal crisis (misdemeanor/delinquency, runaway, sexuality, violence, etc.), family crisis (poverty, parents’ divorce, multicultural family, etc.), and educational crisis (underachievement, school dropout, etc.).

The Wee Project began in 2008 with a purpose that ‘We’ as a community should act together to protect our students from various types of crisis and to cultivate healthy mind and ‘Emotion’ within students through sound ‘Education’. The history of the Wee Project is as follows.

  • March 2, 2020
    ‘Integrated School Safety Management System’ enforced as the Presidential Policy Commitment
    • ‘Regulation on the Management and Operation of the Wee Project’ partially amended in “The Ministry of Education Ordinance No. 329”
  • January 2017
    • More need-based and customized Wee Centers (e.g. hospital-type Wee Centers) installed to help at-risk students’ school adjustment as a part of the plan to prevent youth violence in/outside the schools
  • 2015
    • ‘Mandatory delay before school dropout’ related task support began at Wee Centers under the “Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act” Article 54 (5)
  • December 14, 2015
    • ‘Regulation on the Management and Operation of the Wee Project’ partially amended in “The Ministry of Education Ordinance No. 285”
  • June 2, 2014
    • ‘Regulation on the Management and Operation of the Wee Project’ partially amended in “The Ministry of Education Ordinance No. 108”
  • July 2013
    • Student care and support system reinforced by increasing the number of professional student counseling staffs of the Wee Project as a part of the Park Geun-hye administration’s major government projects (to eradicate the Four Major Social Evils)
  • February 2012
    • The Wee Centers began operation as ‘Support and Prevention Centers for School Violence’ based on the Comprehensive Measures for the Elimination of Violence in Schools
  • December 20, 2012
    • ‘Regulation on The Management and Operation of the Wee Project’ enacted in “The “Ministry of Education Ordinance No. 274”
      1. - The Wee Project Research and Special Task Center at Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) designated as the chief implementing organization for the Wee Project
  • 2009
    • The plan for the Wee Project established and implemented
      1. - 31 Wee Centers including the Cheonan District Office of Education in Chungcheongnam-do province began operation in February 2009
  • October 2008
    • The Wee Project implemented
  • March 2008
    • ‘Integrated Student Care and Support Centers’ began test operation (30 centers)
    • Alternative classes called ‘The Buddy Class’ began operation (200 schools)
    • Policy Research Schools to build school counseling network began operation (47 schools)


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