SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean education institutions are scrambling to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology in classrooms across the country. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) announced that it is developing a curriculum for a new course on AI technology, which will soon be provided as an optional course for high [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean and Japanese citizens participating in the 13th “Peace & Green Boat,” a cruise program of the Korea Green Foundation and a Japan-based international NGO, Peace Boat, was held on a boat headed to Nagasaki from Shanghai on April 12. During the program, South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will implement a law this week aimed at requiring operators of day care centers and kindergartens to install devices that prevent children from dying or suffering harm after being left alone aboard school buses, the Korean National Police Agency said Monday. Under the revised law concerning roads [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office, the government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) agreed Tuesday that the country will provide free education to all high school students starting in 2021. To this end, authorities will begin free education for high school seniors in the fall semester and expand it to [...]
SUWON, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Students living in Gyeonggi Province will soon be served cafeteria-style school meals, where they can choose according to their preferences, rather than a single option. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (GPOE) announced on Thursday that it has decided to push for a “cafeteria-like school meal plan” that guarantees [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will be introducing obesity prevention program at schools, teaming up with three institutions to begin test driving the program this month. The Seoul Health Promotion School Program educates students on the principles of a healthy diet while lifting the educational burden from parents and teachers. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has argued that showing smartphones or televisions to a crying baby may delay the child’s ability to acquire a language. A research team led by Prof. Kim Sung-koo from Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital said that the comparison of two groups of children being exposed [...]
BANGKOK, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The fever for learning Korean is steadily spreading among Thai students, as the number of secondary schools teaching Korean as a second foreign language in Thailand is expected to swell to 130 this year, officials said Tuesday. The Korean Education Center in Thailand said as many as 130 middle [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) has drawn fire for asking applicants to one of its scholarship programs to prove their poverty in disregard of a dissenting opinion from the state human rights watchdog, officials and students said Monday. Applicants for SNU’s Good Talent Scholarship are now required to write down [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean students’ academic abilities have been deteriorating in recent years, a government report said Thursday. According to the report issued by the Ministry of Education, more than one in 10 middle and high school students failed to meet the basic academic standards in mathematics as of last [...]