SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) unveiled Tuesday the TIMSS 2015, a report highlighting international study trends for mathematics and science based on 270,000 elementary and middle school students in 49 countries. TIMSS provides a comparative analysis of educational achievements every four years after students [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The level of received school education matters most when it comes to reducing the risk of high blood pressure, a medical study suggested Tuesday, breaking the conventional notion that illnesses are closely tied to income. A research team led by Lee Hae-young of Seoul National University Hospital looked into [...]
SUWON, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Suwon has just wrapped up construction of a middle and high school for a small village in Siem Reap, a province in Cambodia, announced the city government Thursday. Dubbed the Phnom Krom Suwon Middle and High School, the project was part of Suwon’s three-stage Official Development [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 600,000 high school seniors and graduates began their state-administered college entrance exam Thursday morning. Also known as the College Scholastic Ability Test, or Suneung in Korean, the test’s results will play a crucial role in college applications that will determine academic endeavors and future careers. The exam [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A handful of K-pop idols have applied for the upcoming Korean CSAT set to take place this week, according to their agencies on Wednesday. Members of girl groups TWICE, Gfriend and Cosmic Girls and boy group Seventeen are readying for the college scholastic aptitude test scheduled this Thursday for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A temporary noise ban will prevent all aircraft from landing or taking off during a short listening session of the annual college entrance exam to be held this week, the government said Wednesday. The ban will be enforced between 1:05 p.m. and 1:40 p.m. Thursday when some 600,000 students [...]
SUWON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s low birthrate, which began dropping in the 1970s, is gradually leading to a decline in the number of college students. The number of new college admissions declined from 549,000 in 2014 to 529,000 in 2015 and 516,000 in 2016. As a countermeasure to Korea’s changing demographics, schools are [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is home to some of the world’s fastest mobile Internet infrastructures, but lags behind the United States and China in the utilization of web information, a report showed Wednesday. Although Koreans enjoy better access to the Internet using their smartphones, they are less active than Americans and [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of college graduates who failed to pay back their student loans jumped nearly eight times in three years, data showed Monday, in the latest sign of financial trouble for young South Korean workers. Under the student loan program that began 2010, college graduates are required to pay [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students studying in South Korea topped the 120,000-mark for the first time last month, the justice ministry said Friday. It was tallied at 122,082 as of the end of September, up 3.8 percent from the previous month and up 19.6 percent from a year earlier. [...]