SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI held a seminar at Yonsei University on Wednesday to introduce its “Study Mode” and discuss responsible ways to use artificial intelligence in education, underscoring its growing engagement with South Korea’s academic community. The session, co-hosted with the Yonsei University Artificial Intelligence Society at the university’s College of Engineering, featured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As cheating scandals involving artificial intelligence spread across South Korean universities, experts say the problem stems less from student morality and more from institutional complacency—where large-scale, online classes have outpaced ethical oversight. According to professors and education researchers, the combination of budget-driven mass lectures and the rapid advance of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University, long a symbol of South Korea’s academic rigor, is now facing a reckoning that feels distinctly of this era: how to teach, test, and trust in the age of artificial intelligence. After revelations that dozens of students allegedly used ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat during an [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A major cheating scandal has erupted at Yonsei University after evidence surfaced that a large number of students used ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools during an online midterm exam, prompting the professor to threaten disciplinary action. The professor of “Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ChatGPT,” a third-year course [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More graduates from South Korea’s top universities are enrolling in regional law schools, reflecting a sharp rise in competition for legal careers and raising new concerns about equity in the country’s law education system. Newly released government data show that this year, 31 percent of first-year students at five lower-tier [...]
JEJU, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A former high school teacher in Jeju has had his fine doubled on appeal after being convicted of making sexually inappropriate remarks to students during class. The Jeju District Court’s Criminal Division 2, presided over by Judge Oh Chang-hoon, on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling and imposed a fine [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Pusan National University (PNU) said Thursday it will become the first university in South Korea to introduce artificial intelligence–powered smart glasses designed for real-time translation and communication across multiple languages. The AI Translation Glasses are being rolled out as part of the university’s “AX Transformation Project,” which explores how advanced [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When A, the teenage son of an international marriage, returned to Korea in his first year of high school, his parents told him to skip school and start working. They pushed him instead to a Seoul education center for migrant youths to learn Korean quickly. Two years later, he [...]
LONDON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The University of Cambridge is introducing a new master’s program dedicated to East Asian popular culture — with a strong focus on Korean culture — reflecting the growing academic recognition of K-culture’s global influence. The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies announced on Sunday that it will begin offering [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — As far-right groups staged another anti-China rally near Daerim Station in southwestern Seoul, students at a nearby middle school responded with a counter-message: “Stop hate, start respect.” Dozens of teenagers held placards reading “Schools should be free of hate” and “Together in diversity” as they marched through their neighborhood, [...]