SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Vietnam, with the Korean Wave sweeping a population of 100 million, will also be able to read Korea’s March 1 Declaration of Independence. Cyber diplomacy organization Voluntary Agency Network Korea (VANK) said Sunday it had recently translated the “March 1 Declaration of Independence” into Vietnamese. “Vietnam also has a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Just over 6 out of 10 South Korean parents see no need for corporal punishment of children, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the welfare ministry’s 2018 survey on 4,039 households with kids or teens, 60.7 percent of the respondents said spanking is “never or not” necessary to properly [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of school violence victims in South Korea increased for the third straight year, mostly due to a rise in bullying at elementary schools, a report showed Tuesday. The annual report by the education ministry showed that 1.6 percent of the respondents were victims of school violence, compared [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Maddox Jolie-Pitt, the eldest son of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, began his first academic term at South Korea’s Yonsei University on Monday, in the limelight of the South Korean media. Maddox, the eldest of Jolie’s six children, appeared for the welcome ceremony for incoming freshmen for Yonsei University’s Underwood [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — One year of tuition at a private elementary school in Seoul is equivalent to a year of college study, an opposition lawmaker said Tuesday. According to data from Rep. Yeo Young-guk of the minor opposition Justice Party Monday, the annual tuition fees in 2018 for 39 private elementary schools in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken a first step toward free high school education by exempting all third graders from their entire education expenses starting in the fall semester, the Ministry of Education said Monday. As most high schools nationwide resumed classes on the day after a lengthy summer vacation, about [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Seoul said Tuesday it will build five more municipal libraries across the city by 2025 to help reduce cultural infrastructure gaps among citizens. The five new libraries, each with a gross floor area of about 9,000 square meters, will be built in Naebalsan-dong of Gangseo Ward, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students who donated a sea lion statue symbolizing Dokdo Island last year published a children’s book on sea lions and donated all of profits from its sale. The ‘Haemil’ club members at the Cheongshim International Academy in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province recently donated 50 copies of [...]
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 [...]