SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Replacing screen time with traditional outdoor games has led to measurable improvements in weight and eating habits among South Korean elementary school students, according to government data released Tuesday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Promotion Institute said the “Healthy Care Playground” program, designed to promote [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Korean parents say the trait they most hope to cultivate in their young children is simply becoming “a healthy person,” with honesty ranking as the top core value, according to new research released Wednesday. The survey, conducted by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education and [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Education Ministry said Monday it has begun a thorough review of how this year’s English section of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was designed and vetted, after the unusually high level of difficulty triggered a national backlash and drew international media attention. The ministry acknowledged that the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean artificial intelligence teams competing to build a “national AI” model are lagging far behind global competitors in solving advanced mathematics problems, according to a new study released on Monday. A research team led by Kim Jong-rak, a mathematics professor at Sogang University, evaluated five domestic large language [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean authorities have concluded that artificial intelligence systems that train on entire news articles or textbooks without permission are infringing copyright, marking the government’s strongest stance yet on data use in the AI era. At a public briefing on Thursday, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the [...]
CHUNCHEON, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Public pressure for mandatory closed-circuit cameras in kindergarten classrooms is mounting in South Korea following a suspected child-abuse case in Chuncheon, but education authorities signaled caution on imposing sweeping surveillance requirements. Shin Gyeong-ho, superintendent of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Office of Education, said Wednesday that the installation of CCTV [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will issue its first government-backed ethics guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence on university campuses, amid a surge in cheating cases involving AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to the office of Kim Yong-tae, an opposition lawmaker who sits on the National Assembly’s Education Committee, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean civic organization campaigning to correct distorted world maps has received its first formal endorsement from an international body, marking a significant milestone in its effort to address long-standing misrepresentations of Africa’s size. VANK, a digital diplomacy group, said on Nov. 20 that the Statistical, Economic and Social Research [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As major universities grapple with cheating scandals linked to artificial intelligence, concerns are now spreading to the very start of the country’s education system: elementary schools, where students are increasingly outsourcing thinking and assignments to AI tools. Teachers in Seoul report that upper-grade students now instinctively turn to AI [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long-term unemployment has climbed to its highest level in four years, driven largely by a surge in jobless young adults with university degrees, according to new government data released Sunday. The number of people who searched for work for more than six months but failed to secure a [...]