SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The cost of private education for children is heavily eroding what little is left of spendable family income, a challenge to government effort to revive the economy through consumption, statistics indicated Thursday. Official numbers from Statistics Korea said a city-dwelling family of two people or more on average spent [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean parents are infamous for their zealous desire to educate their young. But a recent study from the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education revealed that private education in Korea is prevalent even among preschoolers aged five and lower, despite concerns that strenuous studies at an early age [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korean language proficiency test for foreign students and expatriates is set to be administered in over 70 countries worldwide next year, Seoul’s education ministry said Thursday. According to the National Institute for International Education, the test’s administrator, the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) will be hosted [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Koreans treated for thyroid cancer soared in the 2000s, increasing by an annual average rate of 23.7 percent from 1999 to 2011. In 2011, 44,234 patients underwent thyroid cancer surgery, that is about 81 people in every 100,000 – a rate that is more than ten [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Education announced Tuesday that it would expand its deliberation policy for students to better prevent young scholars from making an impulsive decision to drop out of school. In a nutshell, the system is similar to the legal delay process for couples seeking divorce, which has helped [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquitous use of smartphones has given rise to a new generation of kindergarten and elementary school children picking up the devices at an early age to discover the world they have yet to see. This emerging trend has brought about new children’s TV shows that are being introduced [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – An overwhelming proportion of exam-takers chose the Arabic language for the second foreign language section of this year’s state-administered annual scholastic aptitude test, a state-run think tank on school curricula said Wednesday. The results of graded scores on the test for the 2017 academic year, announced by the Korea [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Computer programming has become an essential aspect of modern society, in which we are increasingly surrounded by infrastructure and products brought to life through code and computer languages like Java or C. In line with these tech innovations, the number of patents related to computer programming education has increased [...]
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 [...]