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 [...]
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 [...]