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 [...]
CHUNGPYEONG, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Chungpyeong Middle School in Gyeonggi Province is drawing attention over an after-school club called ‘Serotonin Drum Club’ consisting of 25 students where members expend energy and release stress by playing drums. The club was formed in 2011 by head teacher Go Sun-hwa, who was in charge of after-school programs [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A study by the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union revealed that the majority of the teachers in Seoul were not pleased with their school life and the condition of the local education scene. According to the study, conducted to celebrate the 36th anniversary of Teacher’s Day on May [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — World athletics chief Sebastian Coe said Wednesday he wants to make the sport well represented in school curriculum so that running can be recognized as a daily exercise for young people. Coe, who has been leading the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) since 2015, landed in South Korea [...]