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 [...]
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 [...]