SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate for young South Korean students swelled to 25 percent last year from 21.2 percent in 2014, marking the fifth straight annual increase, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. The overall health statistics of elementary, middle and high school students were also found to have deteriorated in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A student club for startups at Seoul National University (SNU), the nation’s top-ranked school, brought controversy after attempting to sell letters of encouragement written by SNU students to high school seniors and their parents. The club posted an article on social networks on Sunday “offering” to sell letters of encouragement [...]
ULSAN, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education (UMOE) announced on Monday that it will expand its mobile survival swimming class, which was operated on a trial basis last year. The mobile swimming program, which is a project of the Ministry of Education, is designed to avoid restrictions on the use [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Students are divided over a recent male beauty contest held at a spring camp at a college in North Jeolla Province. Some argue that the event was held to sexually objectify male students, while others claim that it was a simple friendship-building exercise without any unfair intentions. More than [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s total spending on private education for children came to about 19.5 trillion won (US$17.2 billion) in 2018, up 4.4 percent from a year earlier, government data showed Tuesday. The data compiled by Statistics Korea showed that 72.8 percent of 5.58 million students across the country received private [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Students aged 15 years or younger can take a leading English language proficiency test in South Korea without their parents or guardians being present, the country’s antitrust regulator said Sunday. The Educational Testing Service, a U.S. nonprofit organization that administers and scores the Test of English as a Foreign [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Office of Education, in a survey conducted on high school teachers in October and November last year, showed that there are more teachers who oppose the introduction of a high school credit system than those who support it. The results of the survey showed that 36.1 percent [...]
SEOUL/YONGIN, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid public outcry and government counteraction, the association of private preschools on Monday scrapped a nationwide strike that it staged to protest the government’s plan to scrutinize private kindergartens’ use of state subsidies. Hundreds of private preschools affiliated with the Korea Kindergarten Association (KKA) postponed the start of the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The education authorities of Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon warned Sunday that local private schools will face harsh administrative punishments if they press ahead with a collective action to protest the government’s reform drive. In a joint statement, the liberal-minded superintendents of the three regions’ education offices declared there [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — According to internet bookseller Yes24 on Wednesday, sales of books in the natural sciences increased continuously from 2014 to 2018, with growth varying from 3.5 percent in 2015 to 20.4 percent in 2016. Science-related books have emerged as a breath of fresh air in the doldrums of the publishing [...]