SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Private education institutions are offering help to families with two breadwinners or single moms or dads who are struggling to find help with childcare during the school summer vacation period. In response to high demand among parents, private academies are offering morning classes as well as snacks and lunches, [...]
SUWON, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — How different is life for North Korean students, who risked their lives to cross the border, compared to their South Korean counterparts? Twenty-one middle and high school students in Gyeonggi Province, each with their own stories, participated in a Career Design Camp that took place in Gwangju for three [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing diplomatic and trade dispute between South Korea and Japan doesn’t appear to be having much impact on exchanges between the two countries’ universities. According to university officials nationwide on Tuesday, most exchange programs involving South Korean and Japanese universities and their students will proceed this year as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea pushed ahead Friday to cancel the licenses of 10 “autonomous private high schools” despite strong protests from the elite institutions and parents. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae gave consent to regional education offices’ decision to deprive eight schools in Seoul and one in Busan of their special status [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc. said Monday it has introduced a pilot “AI tutor” program using artificial intelligence technology in its English conversation training for cabin crew members. The ‘AI tutor’ is a program that allows people to practice conversational English according to travel and business situations through voice recognition and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will implement a plan that allocates a space for students to create and display their YouTube content or webtoons. The Ministry of Education on Sunday announced a plan to internalize school media education and strengthen related education support for aspiring content creators such as YouTubers and Webtoon writers. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A prestigious private high school in the southwestern city of Jeonju on Friday retained its special status, which guarantees greater autonomy in admissions, financing and curriculum, for another five years despite the government’s efforts to reduce the number of such elite schools blamed for deepening educational inequality. The Education [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Students in designated elementary schools will learn mathematics using artificial intelligence (AI) based content starting next year. The Ministry of Education, jointly with the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity, has begun developing AI-based content for mathematics for elementary schools. Instead of solving questions, the content [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 34 percent of South Korean adolescents have thought about killing themselves because of academic pressure, a recent survey showed Wednesday. The grim finding came in the National Youth Policy Institute’s survey of 9,060 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from June-August last year. According to the results, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Yeongdong High School in Yeongcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, a school with just 440 students, held its end-of-semester ceremony not at school, but on YouTube, sparking a public sensation. As of last Friday, this live streaming video of the end-of-semester ceremony on YouTube had been retweeted more than 8,500 times [...]