SEJONG, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to dramatically extend the after-school care and education program for elementary school students in an effort to help relieve the burden of child care for working parents, officials have said. Under the extension plan announced by the education ministry on Monday, after-school child care programs provided [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities in Seoul are scrambling to prepare for offline welcoming ceremonies for freshmen for the first time since social distancing measures were lifted in April last year. Seoul National University is holding three rounds of offline orientation programs on Jan. 5, 10 and Feb. 13, the first of their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education is pushing to enable a wider variety of convenience facilities such as screen golf and large cafes and restaurants to operate on university campuses, an official said Sunday. Efforts are underway to expand the type of convenience facilities that can be installed on university campuses, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital school textbooks customized to meet the different educational needs of students in various academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with a few subjects, including mathematics, the Education Ministry said Thursday. Harnessing artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies, such textbooks will be adopted in stages beginning [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Public online schools that provide remote education on a real-time and two-way basis will be expanded across the country by next year to comply with the introduction of the high school credit system in 2025. The Ministry of Education announced that it will additionally invite four offices of education [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As a growing number of South Korean companies attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas each year, so has the number of young tech students who are eager to learn global tech trends firsthand. This year, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), one of South [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education recently announced a five-year promotion plan to ensure that lifelong education is available to all. Any adult who is not enrolled in college will be eligible to take various non-degree courses, including one- to three-month courses at universities, and acquire credits and degrees. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary and middle school students in Seoul will be allowed to learn how to break at school next year. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Korea Breaking Federation to provide break dancing lessons to students as part of an after-school [...]
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 [...]