SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of Hybe, the entertainment firm behind K-pop supergroup BTS, donated 5 billion won (US$3.5 million) to a local charity, it has said. The donation will be used to help out-of-school youths and those in residential care facilities get fair educational opportunities without discrimination, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Those who pass the teacher employment exam for elementary schools in Seoul currently have to wait for more than a year before getting a job, government data showed Tuesday, amid declining demand for teachers resulting from the decrease in the number of school-age children and a plunging birth rate. New [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As children have fewer opportunities to write manually, many of them are ending up with ‘ugly’ handwriting. A 46-year-old elementary school teacher surnamed Jeong is shocked every time she grades the students’ homework because of bad handwriting, even for a 1st-grade elementary school student. “It becomes a habit for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the freshmen at Seoul National University (SNU), one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities, two out of three came from the greater Seoul area, including affluent districts of Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa in southern Seoul, data showed Tuesday. According to data that Rep. Kang Min-jung of the Democratic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean education content provider Visang Education Inc. said Tuesday it has inked an initial agreement to supply its interactive English education program to Vietnam’s ALAB, as it sees demand for quality English education programs growing in the Southeast Asian country. The program, designed for middle school students, uses [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of students’ infringements of teachers’ rights is increasing in recent days, amid ongoing controversy over a video of a male middle school student lying on the teacher’s platform with a mobile phone in his hands during class, data showed Sunday. According to the data that Democratic Party [...]
SUWON, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said Wednesday it will introduce a cafeteria-type school meal system, deviating from the traditional pattern of providing a uniform menu. A cafeteria-style school meal system enables students to select the kind and amount of food of their choice by offering a wider variety [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to reduce the public school workforce due to a decline in the student population. According to the plan that the Ministry of Education formulated through consultations with other government agencies, the government will lower the number of public school teachers to 344,906 next year, a reduction [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) decided to start selling meal kits on campus on Tuesday for the first time among local universities, after facing criticism from students for a hike in the price of school meals back in April. The SNU Cooperative, which runs cafeterias, will provide sales space to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of English cram schools for kids turned out to charge monthly tuition of more than 1 million won (US$716), a data showed Wednesday. The number of English-language private education facilities for kids stood at 745 as of the end of June, according to the data that independent [...]