SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A school in Gangwon Province has come under fire after taking down a student’s poster criticizing the administration without following regular procedures. The poster put up by a middle school student criticized the school administration for revising its code of conduct without going through the regular procedures, raising an issue [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Monthly spending on private education rose 33 percent last year compared with 10 years earlier, a survey showed Saturday, pointing to South Koreans’ zeal for education. Households spent a monthly average of 384,000 won (US$359.38) per child on private tutoring in 2017, up from 288,000 won in 2007, according [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean students in the U.S. is decreasing, due in part to strict immigration policies championed by President Donald Trump. The number of South Koreans who entered the U.S. last year on F1 visas, which are issued to international students, stood at 22,856, down 9.9 percent from [...]
SEJONG, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Monthly expenditures on private education here reached an all-time high last year amid a steady drop in the number of students, data showed Thursday. Monthly spending on private education averaged 271,000 won (US$254) per child in 2017, up 5.9 percent, or 15,000 won, from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. It marked the largest monthly total since [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate among South Korea’s primary and secondary school students has been gradually increasing due largely to excessive studying, lack of sleep and physical activity and the consumption of more unhealthy food, government data said Thursday. According to the Education Ministry’s 2017 student health statistics, the portion of [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 14,000 students at American universities are studying Korean. Citing a report by the Modern Language Association (MLA) that analyzed foreign language study at universities, various media channels reported 13,936 students were taking Korean language courses at 2,669 U.S. universities in 2016. Korean was the 11th most studied language. Spanish [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of sexual abuse cases has been sharply increasing in South Korean schools, data showed Sunday, reflecting the urgency to come up with viable measures to protect victims. According to data compiled by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, there were 385 reported cases of sexual abuse in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Foundation, the state-run public diplomacy agency, said Friday it will launch the third phase of the Global e-School, in which local universities provide online Korean studies courses to their foreign counterparts. The foundation started the real-time video education program in 2011 in order to help make up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s education chief Cho Hee-yeon announced on Tuesday that a component on respect for life and cherishing animals will be part of the elementary school curriculum starting this upcoming semester and said the move was the first of its kind among the nation’s education bureaus. Cho said, “Learning about [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRC) has criticized the creators of elementary school textbooks for subtle job discrimination. Some of the content contained in the textbooks for lower grade elementary school students includes discriminatory descriptions of certain laborers, including firefighters, according to the NHRC on Monday. The NHRC [...]