SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that South Korean mothers send their kids to English classes before the children turn five years old on average. Yoon’s English School, a company that runs a chain of English language academies across the country, conducted a survey between May 25 and 29 with the participation [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent estimate showed that the gap in private education expenses between high-income and low-income households has widened even further. National Statistical Office of South Korea stated that during the first quarter of this year (from January to March), the average education expense at each household in the highest income bracket [...]
SUWON, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeonggi Province’s ‘English Villages’ are closing down after 12 years of operation. Instead, they will be redeveloped into talent-training institutes, offering various educational programs that are more future-oriented. An English Village was first established in 2004 in Ansan in an effort to create an environment that would offer professional [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that the happiness level reported by middle school and high school students increased when their school day started an hour later than usual. Jae Jeong Lee, Gyeonggi Province’s Superintendent of Education, who took office in July 2014, has been promoting the ‘9 a.m. School Start [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean children and adolescents scored the lowest in their self-reported sense of happiness as measured by the ‘Better Life’ index from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). On May 2, Professor Yoo Shik Yum’s society improvement research laboratory at Yonsei University presented a report titled “2016 8th [...]
SEJONG, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of students who were admitted to local law schools specified their parents or relatives’ professions in their cover letters, the government said Monday, amid growing controversy over the fairness of the law school system. Wrapping up its nationwide probe into law schools over illicit admissions the last three [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Striving to craft a new growth strategy, South Korea said Wednesday it will pay more attention to mathematics for industrial use. In a science policy meeting, the government decided to push for the “industrial math” campaign aimed at promoting interaction between the study and businesses, according to the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Translating Korean literature, while challenging, has opened up a whole new, joyful world, said foreign translators during a panel discussion in Seoul Monday. In the closed-session organized by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, translators from England, Germany, India, France, Mexico, and Uzbekistan, shared their experiences of and thoughts [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government will tap into the ‘design for good’ concept in its attempt to bring about social change, in particular curbing increasingly pervasive school bullying. After research into the factors behind school bullying, the city decided to launch what it calls “The Preventive Design to Build Violence-free [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chilean university has launched a course on the study of the Korean language as learning Korean appears to be the latest craze among Chileans, the South Korean Embassy in Santiago said Thursday. The Virginio Gomez Professional Institute, affiliated with the University of Concepcion, located in Chile’s second-largest city [...]