SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When A, the teenage son of an international marriage, returned to Korea in his first year of high school, his parents told him to skip school and start working. They pushed him instead to a Seoul education center for migrant youths to learn Korean quickly. Two years later, he [...]
LONDON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The University of Cambridge is introducing a new master’s program dedicated to East Asian popular culture — with a strong focus on Korean culture — reflecting the growing academic recognition of K-culture’s global influence. The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies announced on Sunday that it will begin offering [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — As far-right groups staged another anti-China rally near Daerim Station in southwestern Seoul, students at a nearby middle school responded with a counter-message: “Stop hate, start respect.” Dozens of teenagers held placards reading “Schools should be free of hate” and “Together in diversity” as they marched through their neighborhood, [...]
GANGNEUNG, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In Gangneung, where South Korea declared its first-ever “state of disaster” caused by drought, a group of local young people has organized under the unlikely name “Toilet Demon Hunters.” Their mission is both urgent and practical: teaching citizens how small changes in daily habits can conserve vast amounts of water. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one in six foreign graduates who stayed in South Korea after studying have faced workplace difficulties, including conflicts with Korean colleagues or wage disputes, according to a government-funded study released Sunday. The Korea Immigration Service Institute found that 16.4 percent of foreign residents who previously studied in Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s young adults remain the most highly educated in the developed world, according to new data released Tuesday, but the wage premium for advanced degrees is growing even as public spending on higher education lags international peers. The OECD Education at a Glance 2025 report showed that 70.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s human rights watchdog has ruled that public libraries violated children’s right to information by restricting access to sex education and gender equality books that were not legally classified as harmful publications. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said Monday that several libraries had either removed such titles [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean schools are preparing to revise their internal rules after lawmakers passed a law banning the use of smartphones and other digital devices during class beginning next semester. Yet with education authorities leaving key decisions to individual schools, administrators are grappling with how far the restrictions should go. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliament has passed a law banning the use of smartphones during class time in elementary, middle and high schools, in an effort to curb youth overdependence on digital devices — though critics argue the measure could prove largely symbolic and even restrictive of students’ rights. The amendment [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite government hopes that international students could help ease labor shortages in South Korea’s manufacturing sector, a new study suggests that most foreign graduates are reluctant to remain in the country for the long haul. According to a report released Tuesday by the Korea Immigration Policy Research Institute, only [...]