CAIRO, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of a Korean language major has taken place in a local university in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan. The event was held at Aswan University on Wednesday, with some 150 students, parents, Korean officials and university staff in attendance, said the Korea International Cooperation Agency [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Halloween has become exceedingly popular in Korea over the past few years. Despite the holiday being mainly American, or Western, seeing young adults in costumes strolling the streets on the night of October 31 is no longer an unfamiliar sight. However, the event has even spread its influence to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group first introduced a scholarship quiz program for youth in China in 2001 with SK Zhang Wen Bang, which was based on an SK-sponsored Korean quiz program called Janghak Quiz. The show quickly established itself as a trademark scholarship program, and was even awarded a grand prize for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Six residency programs, including urology and cardiothoraic surgery, have failed to meet 70 percent of their enrollment quota for medical students this year, a report showed Thursday, raising the need for more incentives to attract students to the less popular residency programs. No medical student applied for the tuberculosis [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Oksu Elementary School became the first in the country to establish a “virtual reality gym class”, allowing students to engage in sports activities using VR technology. According to a school official, the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) helped remodel one of the classrooms at Oksu Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data has shown that the polarization of wealth has grown more apparent for youth as an increasing number of college students are struggling under the burden of student loans, while a chosen few thrive with their inherited fortunes. According to the Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2.51 million college [...]
Ansan, South Korea, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Juvenile delinquency can have lingering psychological effects on both victims and offenders, often preveneting them from fully adapting to society. In an effort to aid these suffering youth, prosecutors in Ansan decided to turn to music for a solution. A new joint endeavor has been arranged by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A ruling party lawmaker said Wednesday existing math textbooks for students are excessively complicated, casting concerns they may induce students to seek private tutoring to keep up with class work. “Many South Koreans believe math is complicated. When we asked third graders a question that had been reviewed for [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In order to evaluate applicants with transparency and fairness, law schools in Korea have banned applicants from including personal details of their family members and relatives in their cover letters. The decision is the latest countermeasure to a string of law school admission controversies, in which students who specified [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Technological advancements may prevail in the education sector before long, but a recent study emphasized the importance of human touch in Internet or PC-based virtual (or cyber) schooling systems, which were shown to be more effective when students were provided with guidance from human instructors. The study was conducted [...]