SEJONG, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In advance of environmental safety standards beginning to be enforced on select young children’s facilities starting this year, the Ministry of Environment launched a 9-month environmental safety inspection last April and found that 25.2 percent – 1,170 of the 4,639 facilities inspected – possessed excessive hazardous substance concentrations. The facilities inspected [...]
SEONGNAM, CHEONGJU, DAEGU, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the midst of a mid-February stretch when graduation ceremonies nationwide are seemingly held every other day, students, parents, and educators are taking pains to commemorate youngsters’ achievements in creative and beneficial ways. A visit to one graduation event at an elementary school in Gyeonggi Province revealed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Irina Bokova, former director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will join Kyung Hee University in Seoul as a chair-professor and head of its arts and humanities faculty starting next month, the university said Wednesday. The university said Bokova has been invited to assume the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of university students from low-income households will receive tuition discounts of up to 50 percent from this year. The Ministry of Education said on Tuesday that nearly 3 in 10 university students will benefit from the national low-income scholarship programs this year, as government funding has increased [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of ten South Korean adults didn’t read a single book last year, but 60 percent don’t feel that their level of reading is lacking. According to the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Tourism’s study on the nation’s reading habits disclosed on February 5, during the one-year period [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreign students enrolled in South Korea showed a record-high growth rate last year, propelled by a rise in those from China, a tally from a state-run educational body showed Monday. The number of foreign students registered at South Korean universities rose 18.8 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 7 in 10 high schools in South Korea are failing to meet the required 150 minutes of physical education classes per week, a new survey has revealed. South Korean students at only 25 percent of the country’s high schools now receive 150 minutes of PE classes each week, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Language learners in South Korea are green with envy at self-taught English-speaking stars like BTS and Chung Hyeon as they confidently take English interviews with the international media. Videos of tennis player Chung Hyeon’s English interview after the Australian Open quarterfinals are attracting views on the South Korean web, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A law revision recently passed a parliamentary committee to ban selling coffee at all elementary, middle and high schools, the food ministry said Thursday. Proposed changes would remove coffee and coffee drinks from school cafeterias, snack stores and vending machines, which mostly cater to faculty members, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new state-run facility for promoting the country’s culture will open in Hong Kong this week, the government said Tuesday. The new Korean Cultural Center, located inside Hong Kong’s creative landmark PMQ, is the third of its kind in China after Beijing and Shanghai and the 32nd worldwide. [...]