SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing concern, instances have emerged of South Korean college students using ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, to complete their coursework and tests. Universities, however, are being criticized for their apparent lack of effective countermeasures to address the issue. Seoul National University recently began discussions with the school’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Part-time teachers are increasing in proportion to homeroom teachers in middle and high schools as regular teachers increasingly avoid taking responsibility, a state-run institute said Tuesday. The Korean Educational Developmental Institute reported that among all 110,295 homeroom teachers at middle and high schools across the country as of 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will launch a metaverse version of the King Sejong Institute, a government-funded Korean language education brand, this year to help foreigners learn the language anytime and anywhere. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will operate the service jointly with [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the dwindling number of young professors, the average age of university professors is on the rise, a report showed Monday. According to the National Research Foundation, there were 73,948 faculty members at four-year colleges in South Korea as of 2021. Sorted by age, 16,247 professors were over 60 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 students who dropped out of medical school over the past three years turned out to be students at colleges located outside the greater Seoul area, data showed Monday. According to Jongro Academy, one of the country’s leading educational institutions for college admissions, number [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry plans to introduce a “basic quota of teachers” to sustain small schools in rural communities where the population is declining, officials have said. For its mid- and long-term teacher supply plan, the ministry decided to calculate the number of teachers needed by the size of the [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to dramatically extend the after-school care and education program for elementary school students in an effort to help relieve the burden of child care for working parents, officials have said. Under the extension plan announced by the education ministry on Monday, after-school child care programs provided [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities in Seoul are scrambling to prepare for offline welcoming ceremonies for freshmen for the first time since social distancing measures were lifted in April last year. Seoul National University is holding three rounds of offline orientation programs on Jan. 5, 10 and Feb. 13, the first of their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education is pushing to enable a wider variety of convenience facilities such as screen golf and large cafes and restaurants to operate on university campuses, an official said Sunday. Efforts are underway to expand the type of convenience facilities that can be installed on university campuses, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital school textbooks customized to meet the different educational needs of students in various academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with a few subjects, including mathematics, the Education Ministry said Thursday. Harnessing artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies, such textbooks will be adopted in stages beginning [...]