SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean teachers are almost unanimous in agreeing that students should not be able to use mobile phones in classroom without restrictions, a new survey has found. According to the survey released by the Korea Federation of Teacher’s Associations on Wednesday, the vast majority of teachers expressed disapproval towards allowing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts have warned parents over the hype surrounding online foreign language courses for children, as excessive exposure could hinder children from learning their mother tongue. With online streaming services like YouTube and Netflix only one click away, parents are now seldom short of foreign language content, which is often shown [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Students from Incheon Global Campus are graduating for the first time this year and finding employment at multinational corporations such as LG Electronics and Facebook, signaling signs of progress. According to Incheon Global Campus on Thursday, a growing number of students are graduating from the one and only education model [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a ceremony on Monday to mark their implementation of a project to support technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in five Africancountries, the Ministry of Education said. The five-year project, known as Better Education for Africa’s Rise II (BEAR II), which started in 2017, supports the five countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda – in improving [...]
HADONG, South Korea, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A plan to open an international branch of Scotland’s University of Aberdeen in South Korea is highly likely to fall through, as the university has been reluctant toproceed with the project, local officials said Tuesday. Since 2013, the Scottish school has been working on the plan with the South Korean municipalities of South Gyeongsang and Hadong to establish the University of Aberdeen Korea Campus in the southeastern town of Hadong in South Gyeongsang Province. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea dropped in talent competitiveness for the second consecutive year in 2016, falling especially behind in motivating its workers, a report from the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) showed Sunday. The country ranked 39th out of 63 surveyed countries in the IMD World Talent Report 2017, [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study has revealed that one in five South Korean PhD graduates is jobless. According to data from Statistics Korea, nearly 23 percent of South Korean job seekers who recently graduated with a PhD degree were unemployed, despite trying to find a job. The figure rose to one in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korean language proficiency test for non-native Korean speakers and ethnic Koreans will be conducted five times at 223 locations in 72 nations next year, the test’s administrator said Friday. The 57th Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) will take place between April 14-15; the 58th May 19-20; [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A 14-year-old homeschool student will begin a law degree next year after becoming the youngest person to be accepted into Youngsan University. Lee Ji-yeon is expected to enter university next year at the age of 14, while most people her age in South Korea will be going to high school. [...]
JEJU, South Korea, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.S. private school opened in an English educational enclave on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju on Monday, bringing to four the number of international schools set up on the island. Saint Johnsbury Academy Jeju, which will hold a ceremony at its compound in the city of Seogwipo on the resort island on Nov. [...]