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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG will launch South Korea’s first company-run graduate school in September to train master’s- and eventually doctoral-level specialists in artificial intelligence, the Ministry of Education announced Sunday. Approved under a new law designed to bolster the advanced industries workforce, the LG AI Graduate School will open September 30 at K-Square [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are becoming markedly more international, with foreign students now accounting for more than 20 percent of enrollment at a growing number of institutions, according to a new government-affiliated study released Thursday. The Korea Immigration Policy Institute, analyzing data from the Korean Educational Development Institute, found that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading private education body, the Korea Association of Hakwon (KAOH), has moved to ban admission tests at so-called “English kindergartens,” following mounting criticism that the practice fuels excessive early-age competition and deepens the country’s shadow education market. The association’s Foreign Language Education Council announced Thursday that its [...]