SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A television program for Korean language education will air throughout China in the second half of the year, the first of its kind in the Chinese-speaking world, a government agency said Thursday. China Education Television (CETV) will broadcast the program composed of 100 three-minute episodes from October to next [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. aerospace behemoth Boeing said Thursday it will open Asia’s largest aviation training center near Incheon International Airport to train the pilots of Korean Air Co., South Korea’s largest airline. Boeing and Korean Air have worked together to build the aviation campus on Yeongjong Island since November 2013, and it is set [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – To provide visitors with a ‘smart’ tour experience, Seoul Grand Park is launching a mobile application service using Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The popular park announced that it will launch the ‘Seoul Grand Park Mobile App’ service from March 7. Information on various locations in the park will be provided [...]
SEOUL, Feb.18 (Korea Bizwire) – University students in Korea go through a war twice a year when they register for courses at the beginning of a new term. As students want to enroll in popular or fun classes but the number of openings is limited, getting a ‘perfect’ schedule is no easy feat. Recently, search [...]
SEOUL, Feb.10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Bank of Korea (BOK) will manage a course on economic education at a university. Bank officials announced that they will open a course called ‘Research on Policies and the Market’ at the graduate schools of economics at Yonsei and Sogang universities, and give lectures on macroeconomic theory. Employees from [...]
SEOUL, Nov.20 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of five children raised in a multicultural family turned out to be unemployed or having difficulties adjusting to Korean society. In most cases, they lacked proper education. Most of the teenagers who followed their parents to Korea missed their chance to get job education while they were waiting [...]
MUNGYEONG (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘Wee Center’ at the Mungyeong Office of Education hosted a ‘New Start Camp’ for 60 teenagers on November 19. The camp was part of a program to prevent students from giving up school. Detailed experiences of different workplaces were provided to the students, helping them map out their future careers. [...]
JEJU, Nov.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Bringing instant food to school will be banned in all regions of Jeju Island starting next year, and a smartphone ban will be implemented in 2017. The Jeju Education Office is taking extreme measures to lower the obesity rate of students, which is the highest in the nation, and improve [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of young South Koreans studying abroad plunged by a third over eight years, official data showed Tuesday, apparently thanks to the nation’s improved English education system. In 2014, 10,907 students from primary and secondary schools left the country to study abroad, down 12 percent from 12,374 the [...]