SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With Princeton University professor June Huh becoming the first-ever scholar of Korean descent to win the prestigious Fields Medal, education experts in South Korea are pointing out the need to reflect on the country’s current mathematics education system. The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation reported that among students [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – June Huh, the Korean American mathematician who won this year’s prestigious Fields Medal, said Wednesday the ability to work together as a team in large projects has become important in the field of modern advanced mathematics, adding that such a process has an “addictive nature that is hard to [...]
HELSINKI, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — June Huh, a Korean American mathematician and professor at Princeton University, has been named a recipient of this year’s Fields Medal, a prestigious international prize awarded to mathematicians under 40 for achievements in the field of mathematics. The 39-year-old professor, who also serves as a distinguished professor of mathematics [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government, along with the King Sejong Institute Foundation, announced that it will provide a free online Korean language education platform, the Seoul City Online King Sejong Institute, for foreigners for six months starting on July 1. The King Sejong Institute Foundation is a public subsidiary of [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — About 8 out of 10 middle and high school students believe that difficult mathematics exams produce students who ultimately decide to give up studying math, a poll showed Tuesday. According to a survey conducted jointly by Rep. Kang Deuk-koo of the Democratic Party and a civic group “The World [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More people have been spending more for online courses during the pandemic era, a report said Wednesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) conducted a survey of 10,154 people, of which 1,221 (12 percent) had used online means of education. Among them, 691 were either elementary, middle, high [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners studying Korean at King Sejong Institutes worldwide will be entitled to purchase train tickets between Incheon International Airport and Seoul Station at a discounted price. The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-run Korean language education foundation, announced that it will offer a 15-percent discount coupon for some 400,000 [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Most fourth-grade students at elementary schools own a smartphone and 16 percent of them are addicted to smartphones or the internet, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted a nationwide survey of 1.2 million students including fourth-graders from elementary schools, first-year students from middle [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students infected with COVID-19 will be allowed to take school exams beginning this semester, the education ministry said Friday, as new coronavirus cases have been on a steady decline. Students who have contracted the disease will still be prohibited from attending school. But if they [...]
JEJU, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education said Thursday it had launched a school newsletter translation service on a trial basis for multicultural families with students at four elementary schools on the island. The service is aimed at providing multicultural families with school newsletters written in their native [...]