Main Tasks
Legal Education Programs
Legal Education Programs
Legal Education by Life Cycle
- Legal education to help the people understand their basic rights and duties, respect the various members' rights in their community, and actively participate in society
| Targets | Program | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Toddlers and Children | How A Child Becomes Happy (legal education for toddlers) |
Experience-type legal education program tailored for toddlers at child rearing facilities or kindergartens(aged 5-7) |
| Children’s Law School | Legal education program focus on experiences and activities targeting elementary students in community child centers | |
| Adolescents | Happy Class for All | Basic character education programs(school violence prevention, compliance, and human rights, etc.) are developed to improve competencies and character required for living in harmony within a community, and distributed to schools, multicultural education policy school, and youth training centers |
| Legal Education for Students’ Autonomy | Activities, such as enactment and amendment of self-governance rule, student court operation, and debates to resolve community issues and conflicts through democratic and human rights-friendly procedures | |
| Legal Education for North Korean Refugee Adolescents | “Understanding Korean Law,” a legal education program, is provided to North Korean refugee adolescents in order to help them settle in the society as democratic citizens | |
| Support for School Law Club | Support for school law club activities using various legal- and human rights-related methods | |
| Young Adults and Adults | Legal Education for Citizens | Lectures on legals that are applicable to everyday life are provided with cultural shows as part of the citizens’ lifelong education, a small legal school with experts, such as lawyers, and sent to local areas |
| Legal Education for the Immigrant | In line with the trend of becoming a multicultural society, legal education is provided to foreigners, such as marriage and employment immigrants, on the basic laws applied to everyday life, laws on marriage, employment contracts, etc. | |
| All Ages | Lecture on Law | legal education instructors who completed the curriculum of the Ministry of Justice visit elementary, middle, and high schools, social eduction institutions, youth facilities, and welfare centers across the country and give lectures to foster democratic citizens who understand and are capable of protecting the rights of themselves and others |
Visiting Legal Education
- Lecture on law
- Instructors specialized in legal education visit schools and youth facilities to give lectures in relation to prevention of school violence, sexual violence, etc.
- Visiting ‘Law Park’ Service
- Solomon Park, a themed park for law experience, was established in a bus to provide legal education and opportunities for career experience to the people living in neglected areas, such as islands
- Legal Education for Special Classes
- legal education from professional instructors targeting migrant/multicultural family and multicultural education policy school, the neglected such as North Korean refugee adolescents
Legal Education Committee
- A legal education advisory group including law experts supporting legal education to improve legal consciousness of the public and foster democratic citizens
※ Consists of 16 internal and external members; reports legal education execution plans and discusses plans to strengthen expertise for legal education
Solomon Law Park
A themed park for legal education that helps the people learn about law through easy and interesting experiences Solomon Law Parks are currently in operation in Dajeon and Busan
- Law Experience Center
- A variety of experience-type programs to increase legal consciousness, such as mock courtroom, mock assembly, forensic investigation, punishment experiences
- Law Training Center
- Law camp for elementary, middle, and high school students, law school for homemakers, legal training programs as part of job training for teachers
Legalization Promotion Center
- According to the Legal Education Support Act, Probation Offices, juvenile delinquency prevention centers, and private institutions that provide legal education are designated as legalization promotion centers to activate legal education
※ A total of 88 agencies is designated, such as private legalization promotion centers (14 including Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations and Law-related Education Center) and institutions of the Ministry of Justice (74 including Probation Offices)