SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — By law, every South Korean school is required to have its own library. According to a report issued by the National Assembly Budget Office, 99.4 percent of schools across the country had a library (based on figures from 2015). However, despite the ubiquity of libraries, many close early and are [...]
YouTube video courtesy of Seoul City Government & Seoul National University’s Human Rights Center/The SeoulShinmun SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time in the emotionally fraught history of Korean comfort women, video footage confirming their harrowing experience has been discovered, adding to the extensive amount of evidence proving their existence. Until now, historians [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — “Scholarship Quiz”, sponsored solely by SK Corporation (CEO Dong-hyunJang) for 45 years, has been officially certified as the longest-running TV program in South Korea. SK saidin a statement on April 27 that the Korea Record Institute (KRI), a record-certifying organization, had certified Scholarship Quiz, which aired a total of [...]
HANOI, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Thang Long University in Hanoi said Thursday it will offer an undergraduate course in Korean cuisine in cooperation with South Korea as part of its efforts to develop Korean dish experts, starting from this year’s autumn semester. It marks the first time for a Vietnamese university to open such [...]
BUSAN, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The University of North Dakota (UND) Aerospace, an American university famous for aviation education, is set to launch its very first Asian campus in Busan, South Korea. Busan Mayor Seo Byeong-su made an announcement on Tuesday acknowledging a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this month at UND Aerospace in Grand [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A public statement from Gyeonggi Province’s Department of Education indicating that foreign language and private high schools will be gradually phased out has touched off a firestorm of controversy in education circles. While the schools under threat of future dissolution argue that the government’s decision is a singular dismissal of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report has revealed an increasing number of South Korean university students feel discouraged about their job prospects before graduating, with fewer students now having a plan set out for employment. According to the report released on Wednesday by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students learning the Korean language outside the Korean Peninsula swelled by over 50,000 from 2011-2016 to top 115,000, government data showed Friday. A total of 1,309 elementary and secondary schools in 27 foreign countries were operating Korean language courses as of 2016, up 88.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Wednesday that it will set up overseas institutes that offer foreigners Korean language courses and Korean culture activities at six universities in six additional countries. The six universities, designated as the new operators of the King Sejong Institute, are Yancheng Teachers University in China’s Jiangsu Province, [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Joo Jae-un, a college student in Seoul, stayed in the nation’s top science technology school in Daejeon for a month last summer to attend an intensive training course on computer programming. The 25-year-old business major took classes for three to four hours every weekday at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute [...]