SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The tablet PCs that were used for a national census last year will be reused in South Korean schools. The Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that in collaboration with Statistics Korea, it will distribute 11,250 tablet computers that were used for a population census last year to 38 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe Edu, an affiliate of K-pop powerhouse Hybe, plans to develop learning material for Korean classes at overseas elementary and middle schools, the company said Tuesday. The company said it recently signed a business partnership with the International Korean Education Foundation to develop support material for Korean language classes [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is looking at fully resuming in-person classes in the fall, an official said Wednesday, as online classes have been blamed for widening learning gaps between children. Currently, schools follow the government’s COVID-19 guidelines in determining how many students are allowed to learn in-person while the rest [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As public schools continue to offer remote classes, Seoul’s education authorities are offering vouchers to prevent children from skipping meals and buy food from local convenience stores. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Monday that it will team up with the Seoul Metropolitan Government, its 25 districts, and [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost nine in 10 young students in South Korea prefer in-person classes to online ones, despite risks of coronavirus infections, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey on 685 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from April 25 to Monday by a local teachers’ group, 87.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The process of learning a language can be more effective when you have a strong motivation, which is why the company behind BTS recently released the latest version of its Korean learning kit involving the K-pop act’s miniature characters for global fans. “Learn! Korean with TinyTAN,” is a follow-up [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Acute decreases in in-person classes caused by the spread of COVID-19 appear to have greatly impacted the academic achievements of middle and high school students in South Korea, civic activists said Monday. Domestic middle and high schools, which shifted to online classes for many months last year to stem [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong opposition from some conservative groups, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education has stipulated the protection of sexual minority rights in the student rights plan, the first in its history, that it unveiled on Thursday. In accordance with the Seoul Metropolitan Student Human Rights Ordinance, the student human [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a civic group promoting the country and its history online for an international audience, said Wednesday that an Advanced Placement (AP) textbook published in the U.S. this year severely distorts Korean history. “AP World History: Modern” for 2021 published by McGraw-Hill lists [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of the Korean Language said Tuesday that it had unveiled eight kinds of new Korean language datasets, essential learning data for artificial intelligence (AI) to improve Korean language processing capability through its website. In August 2020, the institute released Korean language corpus for AI learning on [...]