Abstract

Recently, as awareness of the need for and importance of university-community linkages has increased, the number of cooperative projects to promote mutual development between the two sides in various directions has increased rapidly. Nevertheless, university-community partnerships in Korea are still far behind their foreign counterparts in terms of diversity and effectiveness due to a lack of awareness, dedicated personnel, and facilities. Traditionally, universities have been responsible for educating human resources. Recently, along with this traditional role, a new role of universities has been emphasized, which is to actively contribute to regional development through cooperation with local communities. This paper is not a hypothesis or program proposal for public-private partnerships, but is based on the author's actual experience of participating in and running a local public-private partnership foreign language program. It provides a process of how local governments and city and provincial school boards can build community-based educational communities through partnerships in which the local government provides administrative and financial support and the university provides educational expertise and infrastructure. By diagnosing the operation status of elementary and secondary Chinese language programs between local universities and local governments, analyzing their advantages and disadvantages, and identifying ways to improve them, we hope to provide meaningful implications for other universities and localities to build university-local foreign language cooperation model programs.

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