SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1,500 pieces of erroneous information about South Korea have been found in foreign textbooks, including a Croatian text saying the country speaks the Chinese language, a lawmaker said Friday. The state-run Academy of Korean Studies looked into 1,707 foreign texts between 2014 and 2017 as part of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,900 teachers have been disciplined for drunk driving over the past four years, with 16 of them getting fired, education ministry data showed Thursday. A total of 1,883 teachers have been punished with disciplinary measures for driving drunk between 2014 and June this year, according to the ministry [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Thailand is the country that has the greatest number of students studying the Korean language. Of the approximately 130,000 teenage students studying Korean worldwide, nearly 30 percent (37,000 students) are Thai. A total of 118 schools in the Thailand have chosen Korean as the second language taught in their [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to data submitted by the Academy of Korean Studies to Rep. Shim Jae-kwon of the Democratic Party of Korea, who also sits on the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, there are still many OECD-member states that denote Korea’s East Sea only as the Sea of Japan [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The next generation of Korean studies experts from Europe have gathered in Rome, Italy to discuss various aspects of South Korea and to suggest a possible direction of the field of study for the future. The 15th Korean Studies Graduate Students Conference in Europe was kicked off at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Singapore Korean International School has chosen to install Samsung Flip, an interactive whiteboard developed by Samsung Electronics, in its classrooms. According to Samsung Electronics, the school decided to adopt the Flip because of its capacity to connect education information with smartphone devices, allowing for improved communications between students and [...]
(Image: Yonhap) SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The wage gap between university graduates and high school graduates in South Korea has widened, surpassing the OECD average. The country’s dwindling birth rate is mirrored in the reduced student-to-teacher ratio, but it is still above the OECD average. The Ministry of Education (MOE) and Korean Educational Development [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – At least 4 out of 10 South Korean students would have chosen to study abroad had it not been for the international schools situated within the Jeju Global Education City (JGEC). According to a survey conducted by the Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC) between December 2017 and January 2018, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of students victimized by school violence in Seoul has increased 24.5 percent from a year earlier to 11,425 this year, according to a survey released Wednesday. More than 92 percent of the entire 700,343 students, ranging from fourth graders at elementary schools through senior high schoolers, took [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Selling coffee will be completely banned at elementary, middle and high schools starting mid-September, the food ministry said Tuesday. The ban will become effective as of Sept. 14 following a law revision, according to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. Foods and beverages with high levels of caffeine [...]