SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Three Kookmin University students have developed ‘Phonics Method’ learning game materials for children with dyslexia. According to a university announcement on June 14, the students from the Department of Education created a set of gaming materials that children can use to learn to relate phonetic traits with words. The [...]
SUWON, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A university lecturer conducted his class through internet broadcasting service Afreeca TV after Suwon University shut down classes for five days as part of its measures to prevent the spread of the MERS virus. As six students and a professor at the university were confirmed to have participated in [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As the deadly Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus is spreading rapidly and worry increases, education authorities are canceling classes at more than 500 schools to prevent its spread. According to the Ministry of Education, as of June 3 a total of 544 schools including 196 kindergartens, 273 elementary schools, [...]
INCHEON, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea Thursday committed millions of dollars to equip classrooms in three African countries with information technology. Education Minister Hwang Woo-yea signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Irina Bokova, secretary-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), stating that South Korea would contribute US$6 million [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In a comparative survey on the happiness of children, Korean children were found to be the least happy among their peers in other countries. According to the survey jointly conducted by Save the Children and the Seoul National University (SNU) Social Welfare Research Center, the “subjective happiness score” of Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — About 200 high school students had their feet washed by their teachers on May 14. Seongji High School in Hwagok-dong, Seoul, has been holding this event where teachers wash the feet of their students as part of Korean Teacher’s Day celebrations for four years now. There was some awkwardness [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As traffic accidents among elderly people increase, a local police agency plans to dispatch officers to senior citizen centers to prevent such accidents. The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency announced on May 13 that it will offer traffic safety education to 6,153 silver halls in the province by dispatching police [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Most Koreans think that Korean teachers in the public education system are not respected by their students. According to a survey conducted by Korea Gallup on 1,005 Koreans over 19 years from April 28 to 30, 83 percent of the polled individuals answered that they think teachers are not [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean children were hoping to get a pet as a present for this year’s Children’s Day, according to a survey conducted by Tooniverse, a Korean cable channel for children, from May 1 to 4 on 1,400 children aged between 4 and 14. According to the survey, 21.3 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Cameroonian English teacher who faked his university diploma will be expelled from Korea, according to the Ministry of Justice Incheon Airport Immigration Office. The man in his twenties entered Korea in March 2013 as a Korean language student. He then faked a BA diploma from a prominent Canadian [...]