An abandoned elementary school 90 minutes outside Seoul has been transformed into the new Citizen Journalism School by OhmyNews, AsiaMedia reported Tuesday.

The school will focus on teaching students about user-generated content and citizen journalism, and is designed to hold more than 60,000 citizen reporters.

Curricula includes writing workshops, journalism 101 classes, photojournalism classes and video news gathering classes. For advanced students, classes on interviewing and Internet journalism workshops are offered.

For professional journalists, the OhmyNews school even offers a “re-education” programme, as well as writing and business classes for media managers and executives, corporate managers and publicists for non-governmental organisations, AsiaMedia reported.

Faculty consists of professional journalists from all platforms, senior OhmyNews citizen journalists and those with professional, non-journalism backgrounds.