CHUNGJU, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – At a popular nursery school, parents waited quietly as a lottery to determine which children would enter kicked off. You could cut the tension with a knife. In the end, only 25 children were selected to enter the class for five-year-olds, even though 118 applied. The 93 parents whose children [...]
SEOUL, Nov.9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has stepped up to help prevent accidents in the workplace among foreign workers who are unfamiliar with the Korean language. City officials announced that they will be providing safety education for 210 foreign workers from five different countries – Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. Safety [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Minister of National Defense, Han Min-goo, who is now visiting Malaysia, agreed with the Myanmarese Minister of National Defense, Sein Win, to open a Korean Language course at the military school of Myanmar. The meeting marked the first time that Korea and Myanmar held defense ministerial talks. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) - Hyundai Motor and the Seoul Metropolitan Government have opened a new car-themed playground at Seoul Grand Park. The car manufacturer opened the children’s theme park, called ‘Cha-car Cha-car playground’, at Seoul Grand Park on October 29. The playground is part of a donation made by Hyundai Motor as the [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. will work with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide educational robots to Costa Rica, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said under the US$2.4 million deal reached in Washington, SK Telecom will provide 1,500 robots [...]
NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s no secret that education was the key to South Korea’s remarkable transformation into one of the world’s largest economies from a poor Asian country. Now, South Korea wants to help provide quality education to people, especially young girls, in poor countries, as part of its efforts to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -It turns out that high school seniors preparing for college entrance exams are severely sleep-deprived. Toz, a business that rents meeting rooms, conducted a survey on 1,800 high school seniors who used their study center. Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents slept five to six hours a night, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A translated version of a new book by a best-selling South Korean children’s novelist will be sold in Britain, the author’s overseas agency said Monday. The British publishing company, Little, Brown Book Group, will publish Hwang Seon-mi’s “The Dog Who Dreamed of Love” in English next fall, KL Management [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – High school students will have more opportunities to experience theater, starting in 2018. The Ministry of Education has announced a draft proposing new curricula for physical education, the arts, music and health education. To increase students’ knowledge in the liberal arts, ‘theater’ was established as a general subject. Before, [...]
Cheongju, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - “Even if I’m put on a ventilator for 24 hours, I’m going to achieve my dream of being a youth counselor.” Gong Hwa-ja (52) dreamed of another goal even before the happiness of passing the university qualification exam. Gong has had a serious lung condition since her childhood, and [...]