SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears over the new Wuhan coronavirus appear to be spreading to university campuses in South Korea as a large number of Chinese students return from winter vacation. Amid the growing concern about the new virus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, South Korean university students, particularly those [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of elementary schools in South Korea operated after-school English classes for first and second graders last year, following the government’s partial deregulation at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Education said Tuesday. The ministry said 3,409, or 55.3 percent, of the 6,167 elementary schools [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — About 98 percent of parents have their children receive after-school education, including from private tutors and cram schools, a survey showed Sunday. The survey about education last year, conducted by the state-run Korean Educational Development Institute, covered 4,000 men and women aged 18 to 73 in August and September. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Private institutes offering English language courses for preschoolers using the description “English kindergarten” may face punishment from the authorities, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae recently presided over the 16th meeting of the Education Trust Restoration Team to discuss punitive measures against private English language [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the teenage school dropouts in Seoul have left school because they “could not find the meaning of school,” a recent report showed. According to a survey conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute on 753 of the teenagers who quit school from 2015 to last year, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to overhaul the on-the-job training system for college students, which has been under constant scrutiny as they often work without pay. The Ministry of Education has recently drawn up a “plan to improve the on-site practice system for university students” to collect opinions from universities [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The nation’s falling birth rate is expected to begin to take a toll on domestic universities and colleges from next year, a private institution in Seoul warned Wednesday. According to Jongno Haneul Education, the number of applicants for university entrance exams is expected to fall short of the combined [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of sex scandals involving famous celebrities in South Korea are pushing parents to educate their children about sex. “After the Jung Joon-young scandal, I felt that sex education at an early age is important,” a post on a local mom’s cafe, an online forum for mothers, said. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Most parents sending their children to elementary, middle, or high schools do not trust the school teachers in terms of their capability, and send their children to private education classes as well, a recent study revealed. The Korean Educational Development Institute conducted a survey of 4,000 South Korean men [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A record number of applicants took the Korean language proficiency test last year, data showed Friday, reflecting the growing popularity of the language. A total of 375,871 people sat for the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) in 2019, up 14.2 percent from 329,224 in the previous year, according [...]