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 [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teachers are less satisfied with their jobs with the rate of those who said they would become teachers if they were born again falling sharply, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korean Federation of Teachers Associations of 8,431 teachers at kindergartens, elementary, [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education and the Korea Student Aid Foundation jointly announced on Thursday the launch of the full-scale operation of a tutoring program designed to address the educational loss of elementary and middle school students in the areas of learning, psychology and emotions, starting from May. Under this [...]