SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Foundation, a charity organization under the South Korean conglomerate LG Group, said Wednesday it will expand the scope of its existing education program for bilingual students amid the rise of international marriages in the country. LG said it partnered with the education ministry and Hankuk University of Foreign [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK for short), an internet-based South Korean organization that aims to correct discrepancies or inaccuracies related to Korean history and geography, said that the famed online history reference Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) has cited three videos produced by VANK on Korean ancient history. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A student committee at Seoul National University (SNU) on Friday proposed holding talks with its counterpart at Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s most prestigious school of higher learning, in Pyongyang this year to promote exchanges between students of the two schools. The committee seeking inter-Korean exchanges in cooperation [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting in mid-September, the sale of coffee products will be banned from all schools in the nation. According to the Ministry of Food and Safety, the special revised law pertaining to food safety for children will come into effect on September 14. According to the newly revised law, coffee [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Unification Ministry on Tuesday gave the green light for students of Seoul National University to contact students of Kim Il Sung University, North Korea’s most prestigious school of higher learning, to discuss academic exchanges, the South Korean university’s students said. The approval, coming amid increasingly warming ties between [...]
SUWON, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has revealed that 1 out of 2 teachers in their 20s and 30s say they don’t intend to retire as a teacher. Kim Cha-myeong, an official at the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education and a teacher himself, on Saturday revealed the results of an online survey [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, families in the highest income bracket spent 27 times more money on private lessons for their children than those from lower income backgrounds. The survey found that income earners in households belonging to the top 20 percent spent 242,600 won on [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 young children watch television and more than one out of 10 use smartphones every day, a report showed Tuesday. According to the report by Ajou University Hospital, 39.3 percent of the surveyed children aged between two and five watch television every day and 12 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Newly proposed measures by the government to improve the current student grading system in South Korean high schools will be revealed in July by the Ministry of Education. Although high school transcripts are as important as the college scholastic test in the college entrance process, there is lack of [...]
CHEONGJU, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The “Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings” (also known as “Jikji”), the world’s oldest existing book printed with moveable metal type, will be re-created and incorporated into a 3D database. The Korea Culture Information Service Agency has selected the Goryeo Virtual Reality Program proposed by the Jikji Korea [...]