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Ministry of Education Expands Free Online Lectures

Ministry of Education Expands Free Online Lectures

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of online university courses available for free in South Korea will increase to 900 this year. The Ministry of Education announced details of the 2020 Korean-style massive open online course (K-MOOC) on Wednesday. K-MOOC (www.kmooc.kr) is an online open lecture platform that allows anyone to take courses [...]

Gov’t Strengthens Support for Students with Disabilities

Gov’t Strengthens Support for Students with Disabilities

SEJONG, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of stenographers and sign language interpreters helping disabled college students will increase. In addition, they will be given better treatment. The Ministry of Education announced Tuesday a plan to promote education and welfare support for disabled college students. The number of disabled college students is on the rise, from [...]

Universities Rely on Makeup Classes, Online Lectures as Coronavirus Fears Intensify

Universities Rely on Makeup Classes, Online Lectures as Coronavirus Fears Intensify

SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities that postpone the beginning of classes due to concerns over new coronavirus infections will also carry out all scheduled lectures using makeup classes or online classes. The Ministry of Education distributed guidelines for academic operations to universities on Wednesday. The ministry said that even if universities postpone the [...]

Gov’t Urges Universities to Postpone Start of Spring Semester as Coronavirus Spreads

Gov’t Urges Universities to Postpone Start of Spring Semester as Coronavirus Spreads

SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Wednesday advised universities to postpone the start of the spring semester in its latest efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. Following a ministerial meeting on support measures for international students, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae recommended that schools delay classes by up to four [...]

SNU’s Dorm to Separate Chinese Students Deemed at Risk of Coronavirus

SNU’s Dorm to Separate Chinese Students Deemed at Risk of Coronavirus

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are taking various measures to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, including the separation of Chinese students deemed at risk of the viral disease, officials said Monday. A recent decision by Seoul National University (SNU) to assemble all Chinese students who have recently visited China [...]

Students at Women’s University Oppose Enrollment of Transgender Female

Students at Women’s University Oppose Enrollment of Transgender Female

SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at Sookmyung Women’s University are strongly opposing the recent decision by school authorities that a transgender female has been admitted to the university. The transgender female, 22, received a sex change operation in Thailand last year and was reassigned a new gender by authorities before being admitted to [...]