SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In-person school classes fully resumed across South Korea on Monday in line with the country’s “living with COVID-19″ scheme. All kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools welcomed students without anyone left behind for remote-learning for the first time since schools switched to learning from home or classes being held [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker, said Thursday that it had developed a traffic safety education mobile app for children using gaze recognition technology. After showing virtual hazardous traffic situations that children can experience during commutes to and from school, the app uses gaze recognition technology [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said Wednesday it has asked a local high school to lift a ban on the use of mobile phones by students in school. The state human rights watchdog said the ban on the use of mobile phones at the high school, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The “CAMPUS Asia” program, an educational collaboration among South Korea, China and Japan designed to train a new generation of leaders of Asia, will be expanded this year to include three Southeast Asian countries, the education ministry in Sejong said Tuesday. CAMPUS Asia, short for Collective Action for Mobility [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from next year, the city of Busan will distribute smart devices for free on a one on one basis to all of the city’s middle and high school students and elementary students above fourth grade. The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education said Monday that it will distribute [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will fully resume in-person school classes next month in line with the government’s “living with COVID-19″ scheme, the education ministry said Friday. In-person attendance at kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools will resume nationwide on Nov. 22, following this year’s College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), a state-run [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With the increasing popularity of Korea’s contemporary culture, the University of California plans to expand its Korean Studies program. Korea Foundation’s Los Angeles office said Tuesday that three UC campuses have either recruited new Korean Studies professors or currently accepting recruits for the Korean studies department. University of California, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite increasing satisfaction with online lectures, which have become common since the COVID-19 pandemic, students at engineering universities still showed a clear tendency to favor face-to-face lectures, a survey showed Tuesday. The National Academy Engineering of Korea conducted a survey of 1,668 students and 254 professors at engineering universities [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Students infected with COVID-19 or in self-quarantine for possible coronavirus exposure will be assigned to separate testing sites for next month’s state-administered college entrance exam to ensure a safe test environment, the education ministry said Tuesday. About 509,800 high school seniors and graduates are set to take this year’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With remote lectures becoming more common in COVID-19 era, an increasing number of universities are furnishing themselves with a variety of broadcasting equipment and large-sized monitors for online lectures and meetings. At Soongsil University, a large-sized curved screen 10 meters wide and 1.5 meters tall is installed on the [...]