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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Immanuel Kant, the 18th-century German philosopher, became the unlikely villain of South Korea’s 2026 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) on Thursday, as test-takers flooded online forums with complaints that his ideas dominated some of the exam’s most difficult questions. “Would Kant ever have imagined he’d be tormenting so many young [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI held a seminar at Yonsei University on Wednesday to introduce its “Study Mode” and discuss responsible ways to use artificial intelligence in education, underscoring its growing engagement with South Korea’s academic community. The session, co-hosted with the Yonsei University Artificial Intelligence Society at the university’s College of Engineering, featured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As cheating scandals involving artificial intelligence spread across South Korean universities, experts say the problem stems less from student morality and more from institutional complacency—where large-scale, online classes have outpaced ethical oversight. According to professors and education researchers, the combination of budget-driven mass lectures and the rapid advance of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University, long a symbol of South Korea’s academic rigor, is now facing a reckoning that feels distinctly of this era: how to teach, test, and trust in the age of artificial intelligence. After revelations that dozens of students allegedly used ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat during an [...]