SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea unveiled a set of measures to enhance road safety for children in school zones Tuesday in the follow-ups to the parliamentary passages of related bills. The measures, approved at a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day, call for lowering the speed limit in school zones to 30 [...]
BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of professors and students from Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s most prestigious institution of higher learning, visited a Berlin university on Sunday as part of academic exchanges amid international sanctions on the North. The group comprising two professors and 12 students of the Pyongyang school’s German [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Children and teenagers in South Korea are suffering from sleep deprivation, and their level of happiness is also the lowest among other developed countries. According to a report released Tuesday by Statistics Korea, the average daily sleep time for children and teenagers was 7.3 hours as of last year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Many students outside of school are reportedly studying hard through government support or preparing to enter society through employment and job training. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 16,000 out of 43,188 teenagers who used the Support Center for Out of School Teens have shown significant [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Students who started their undergraduate degree in 1999 consist mainly of those born in the 1980s. while undergrads who started university in 2019 were born in 2000s. How different are the views of college life between these two generations? Daehak Naeil, a weekly magazine for college students, surveyed 150 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy looms over university authorities requiring students to obtain ‘pre-authorization’ for putting up posters on university campuses or taking them down arbitrarily. Recently, students at Dongduk Women’s University put up posters throughout the campus criticizing professors and instructors who made sexist remarks, as well as the school’s ‘repression of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey by the government showed that career aspirations among elementary school students differed based on gender. The Ministry of Education conducted a survey of 24,000 elementary, middle, and high school students inquiring about preferred career aspirations, in which athletes, teachers and YouTube creators were most popular. From [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Athletes, teachers and YouTube creators are among the jobs South Korean elementary school students most want to have when they grow up, a survey showed Tuesday. Athlete topped the chart for a second straight year, with 11.6 percent of the surveyed students picking it as their favorite job, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As more children are exposed to digital technologies from an early age, a growing number of tech-savvy parents are looking for toys that can help make their kids more creative and smarter. After searching for an answer for a fun, easy and expandable toy, RoboRisen, a Korean robot startup, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday that it will set up speed cameras in all school zones across the capital city by 2022 in an effort to enhance children’s safety. CCTVs to crack down on illegal parking and stopping will also be installed in all school zones by that [...]