SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 6 out of 10 South Korean children under the age of 6 use smartphones, and the age at which children start using smartphones is steadily decreasing. The Barun ICT Research Center at Yonsei University conducted a study on 602 participants with children between [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that people feel that they are saving more time and money on education when they watch educational videos on YouTube, rather than reading or going to private institutes. YouTube and Macromill Embrain, a market research firm, conducted a study of 1,000 participants between the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government plans to expand its free lunch program to all elementary, middle and high schools by 2021, its mayor and education chief announced Monday. Free meals are currently served at 939 public elementary and middle schools in the city. The benefits will be offered to 930,000 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Among various kinds of certifications, drone pilot certification was found to be the most popular among South Koreans. According to Yes24, a South Korean online bookstore, some 1,720 books related to drone pilot certification were sold in 2017, a big jump from 10 books in 2015 and 170 books [...]
ROME, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean archive has opened at the library of the Asian Studies Department of Sapienza University of Rome, a prestigious university in the Italian capital. The opening ceremony for the archive, “Window on Korea,” was held at the library on Tuesday, with about 300 professors and students attending. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) will come up with measures to tackle widespread irregularities in private kindergartens next week, a party official said Tuesday. They plan to hold a closed-door meeting Sunday amid growing public uproar sparked by revelations of preschool owners’ corruption by a lawmaker [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has enacted a law aimed at requiring operators of daycare centers and kindergartens to install devices that prevent children from dying or suffering injuries after being left alone aboard school buses, the Korea Police Agency said Monday. Under the revised Road and Traffic Law, the driver of [...]
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 [...]