SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean legal tech firm Law & Company announced that its AI-powered legal assistant, Super Lawyer, achieved a breakthrough performance in the 14th Korean Bar Examination, surpassing global AI models in accuracy. The company revealed on Wednesday that Super Lawyer recorded a 74% accuracy rate on the multiple-choice section, well [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing wave of media attention is focusing on ‘Daechi Moms,’ a term referring to ambitious South Korean parents who dedicate their lives to their children’s elite education. From viral YouTube skits to TV documentaries and drama series, these mothers—often depicted wearing luxury fashion while micromanaging their children’s academic [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one in three newly minted Ph.D. holders in South Korea last year remained unemployed, a record-high figure that underscores a tightening job market even for the country’s most highly educated individuals. According to data from Statistics Korea, only 70.4% of Ph.D. recipients who graduated in 2024 had secured employment [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a prestigious mathematics academy in Seoul’s affluent Daechi-dong district, known as South Korea’s “education capital,” an admission question for elementary students recently read: “How many times does the digit ’1′ appear in the sum of the series 9+99+999+…+99999999999999999999 (twenty 9s)?” This was part of the academy’s notoriously difficult [...]
SEOUL, Feb.12 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Wednesday it seeks to amend a law to place teachers with mental disorders on compulsory leave, following a fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old student by a school teacher that shocked the nation this week. Education Minister Lee Ju-ho announced the plan during a meeting of top education [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — While students, parents, and teachers broadly acknowledge the authority of teachers as professionals, a new survey reveals a significant gap between this recognition and the actual respect and autonomy afforded to educators in South Korea. According to a report by the Korea Educational Development Institute (KEDI), more than 80% of [...]
GURYE, South Korea, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — What began as a local experiment to combat population decline and repurpose abandoned schools has turned Gurye County, a small municipality in South Jeolla Province, into a beacon of rural education. The initiative, known as “Studying in Rural Areas,” has attracted families from across the country seeking a slower [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s universities face mounting financial challenges as the number of incoming students declines and dropout rates rise. Many institutions, particularly private universities in Seoul, are debating strategies to address the crisis, including tuition hikes and increased reliance on government funding. According to data released on Sunday by the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to allow companies to establish in-house graduate schools that can confer official master’s and doctoral degrees, marking a significant shift in corporate education and workforce development. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on January 16, 2025, that the enforcement decree for the “Special [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — An educational assessment in Seoul has revealed that approximately 1 in 10 second-year middle school and first-year high school students fall below the minimum standard for basic numeracy skills. The situation is particularly concerning among first-year high school students, where 41% demonstrated below-average mathematical proficiency. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of [...]