SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the nation’s official development assistance (ODA) agency, has built a special school for students with hearing problems in Jordan, the agency said Tuesday. Construction started in Marka, near the Jordanian capital Amman in 2014 in an ODA project worth US$ 5.2 million. Built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean government’s efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on nuclear energy and initiate a shift towards renewable alternatives, a surprising number of soon-to-be high school graduates have applied to study nuclear engineering at university this year. According to sources in the education sector on Thursday, the [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Industrial Property Office has announced that new legislation designed to support and encourage invention education in elementary, middle and high schools will take effect on Friday, pushing local education authorities to come up with plans for a systematic education program to nurture creativity and invention. In line with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A shocking report has revealed that South Korean students on average have to work up to 500 hours to cover their tuition fees for each semester if they are attending a private university. The grim findings come from a new report conducted by major South Korean recruitment website Albamon released [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it introduced three buses equipped with IT facilities in Myanmar to provide underprivileged children with educational programs. The South Korean tech giant first introduced “Samsung Mobile Education Bus” in Myanmar in 2015. The company said the new buses are equipped with a class room [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A batch of 446 international students on scholarships invited by the government are set to graduate from 57 universities in South Korea this month, the Education Ministry said Wednesday. The students hailing from 107 countries are split up into 32 students in undergraduate courses and 414 in graduate courses. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center, said Friday the number of subscribers on its online-learning website has surpassed 100,000. The subscriber volume for Nuri-Sejonghakdang (www.sejonghakdang.org), which stood at 60,000 in 2015, reached the milestone in just about 1 1/2 years, according to the institute. Launched [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean students undertaking the College Scholastic Ability Test from 2021 will no longer be able to benefit from choosing Arabic as an easy way out, as a new education white paper has revealed government plans to reintroduce an absolute evaluation system to weed out those with little to no [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Education Center, a Ministry of Education-affiliated agency in charge of teaching Korean to overseas Koreans and foreigners, will open its 42nd offshore branch in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia this week, the ministry said Wednesday. South Korea opened the first Korean Education Center in Japan [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Rows of shelves crammed with books that crisscrossed rooms like walls are now a thing of the past – at least when it comes to university libraries in South Korea. Universities are doing away with rows upon rows of musty books, and pivoting towards current social trends as they [...]