Landmark agreement on education

Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, speaks during a news conference at Seoul City Hall, Monday. Cho and Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon agreed to jointly push for 20 educational projects estimated to cost a total of 516 billion won ($472 million) until 2018. The projects include improving the quality of free school meals, providing a free school bus to each public school and installing solar power generators in some 500 schools around Seoul in an effort to reduce energy consumption. / Yonhap