SEJONG, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Spending on private education for South Korean students shot up 10.8 percent on-year in 2022, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the country’s unwavering enthusiasm for education. Total expenditures on private education for primary, middle, and high school students amounted to 26 trillion won (US$20 billion) in 2022, soaring from 23.4 [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — First lady Kim Keon Hee on Thursday visited a school for the blind and congratulated new students on their first day of school. Kim visited the Seoul National School for the Blind to attend the entrance ceremony for some 40 new students. In congratulatory remarks, she talked about Saeromi, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of medical schools is leading to concern that they are becoming ‘black holes’ for depriving other fields of outstanding workers. Since 2006, only 3,058 students have been accepted into South Korean medical schools every year. The competition among top-tier students to enter medical school, therefore, has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks customized to different academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with junior elementary students and middle and high school freshmen, the education ministry said Thursday. The plan aims to meet different educational needs of students across various academic levels by harnessing metaverse, AI [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — With the popularity of ChatGPT spreading like wildfire in South Korea, the education sector is stepping up to establish measures to prevent its abuse. Sejong University announced to students that while it will allow the use of ChatGPT as a reference for studying, using it to turn in reports [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean college students majoring in nuclear energy-related studies turned upward last year amid the incumbent government’s policy to reverse the nuclear phase-out policy of the previous administration, a government report said Wednesday. According to the report by the Ministry of Science and ICT, 2,229 students [...]
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 [...]