SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of female applicants accepted into law schools across South Korea has exceeded male applicants for the first time this year. According to Jongro Academy, one of the country’s leading educational institutions for college admissions, 52.5 percent of all applicants accepted by 25 law schools nationwide for the [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of young Koreans transferring to community college after studying at a general universities is on the rise, data showed Thursday, amid uncertainty over their future careers. According to statistics from the Korean Council for University College Education, the number of students who entered junior college after graduating from [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s “medical school craze” has intensified to the point where students as young as elementary school are attending entrance exam classes. This phenomenon is not limited to the mecca of private education, Daechi-dong in southern Seoul, but is widespread across the country. This trend has become increasingly controversial [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Mathematical Society has expressed concerns about the possible reduction of math subjects for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). In a statement released on Tuesday, the Korean Mathematical Association firmly opposed any attempt to exclude calculus II and geometry from the CSAT. They argued that omitting these [...]
SEJONG, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Spending on private education for South Korean students shot up 10.8 percent on-year in 2022, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the country’s unwavering enthusiasm for education. Total expenditures on private education for primary, middle, and high school students amounted to 26 trillion won (US$20 billion) in 2022, soaring from 23.4 [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee on Thursday visited a school for the blind and congratulated new students on their first day of school. Kim visited the Seoul National School for the Blind to attend the entrance ceremony for some 40 new students. In congratulatory remarks, she talked about Saeromi, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of medical schools is leading to concern that they are becoming ‘black holes’ for depriving other fields of outstanding workers. Since 2006, only 3,058 students have been accepted into South Korean medical schools every year. The competition among top-tier students to enter medical school, therefore, has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks customized to different academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with junior elementary students and middle and high school freshmen, the education ministry said Thursday. The plan aims to meet different educational needs of students across various academic levels by harnessing metaverse, AI [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With the popularity of ChatGPT spreading like wildfire in South Korea, the education sector is stepping up to establish measures to prevent its abuse. Sejong University announced to students that while it will allow the use of ChatGPT as a reference for studying, using it to turn in reports [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean college students majoring in nuclear energy-related studies turned upward last year amid the incumbent government’s policy to reverse the nuclear phase-out policy of the previous administration, a government report said Wednesday. According to the report by the Ministry of Science and ICT, 2,229 students [...]