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| Gyeonggi Province is leading a project to train people over 60 as school bus safety officers. / Yonhap |
By Hong Dam-young
Gyeonggi Province is leading a project to train people over 60 as school bus safety officers.
The province is working with three private organizations including the Korean Labor Force Development Institute for the Aged. The seniors will work on buses run by private educational institutes or hagwon.
Two hundred and fifty people will receive training on safety regulations, how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and traffic accident rules.
Participants in the two-day training course that begins in June will receive certificates from the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training allowing them to work as bus safety officers. Their jobs include monitoring traffic violations and checking the vehicle's condition.
The officers will ride the buses between 2 and 7 p.m. and receive up to 900,000 won ($774) a month.
"We hope the new project becomes a leading precedent that opens more jobs to seniors," Gyeonggi Governor Nam Kyung-pil said.
A revised traffic law that went into effect on Dec. 29 requires guardians to accompany children riding the buses from private institutions that carry fewer than 15 passengers.
According to the Korea Road Traffic Authority, 11 children were killed in commute bus accidents between 2011 and 2015.
