SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Public online schools that provide remote education on a real-time and two-way basis will be expanded across the country by next year to comply with the introduction of the high school credit system in 2025. The Ministry of Education announced that it will additionally invite four offices of education [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As a growing number of South Korean companies attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas each year, so has the number of young tech students who are eager to learn global tech trends firsthand. This year, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), one of South [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education recently announced a five-year promotion plan to ensure that lifelong education is available to all. Any adult who is not enrolled in college will be eligible to take various non-degree courses, including one- to three-month courses at universities, and acquire credits and degrees. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary and middle school students in Seoul will be allowed to learn how to break at school next year. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Korea Breaking Federation to provide break dancing lessons to students as part of an after-school [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul has more than 310 English-language kindergartens known for their high cost, about twice as much as annual college tuition, a civic group said Tuesday. The number of English-language kindergartens in the capital totaled 311 as of the end of last year, an increase of 17 from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on Monday said it has signed an agreement with eight companies and agencies including Naver Corp. and Google Korea to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning platform. The Seoul education office plans to develop and transition newSSEM, a remote classroom platform, into an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean universities are having difficulty recruiting new students due to a sharp decline in the school-age population resulting from a rapidly dropping birth rate. Against this backdrop, the number of universities that are attempting to downsize through mergers and integration is increasing. The Mungyeong [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of achievement in the field of mathematics among high school students dropped due to the pandemic, as schools struggled to provide offline classes, particularly among students with lower academic performance, a study showed Sunday. A research team from Korea University analyzed the national survey of academic achievement, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul government plans to nurture around 4,000 high school graduates with expertise in semiconductors by 2031 to help tackle manpower shortages facing domestic chipmakers, its education chief said Wednesday. Some 4,050 semiconductor talents will be nurtured at vocational high schools in the capital city by 2031 by cooperating [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The term “free democracy” will return to secondary school textbooks beginning in 2025 to define South Korea’s national identity, five years after it was deleted during the previous administrative. According to the education ministry’s administrative notice disclosed Wednesday, “free democracy” and “free democratic basic order” will replace “democracy” in [...]