SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A free-learning semester in which students can focus on activities such as discussion-centered classes, club activities and career guidance will be introduced at all middle schools in Korea according to the provisions of a new law. The Ministry of Education announced a revision of the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean authorities are planning to make classrooms more English-friendly in order to prepare students to read English textbooks. According to the April 2nd issue of the North Korean educational report newspaper acquired by Yonhap News, an article says “the measure of introducing foreign languages in departmental studies will [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motors is celebrating its in-house humanities study program, ‘Humanities Studies Concert,’ until June, providing 8 lectures covering various fields such as psychology, religion, fashion and neurology. The company has been holding Humanities Studies Concert since 2013 to help its employees make products based on understanding humans in general. [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Job seekers who complained about unfair refund fees for untaken TOEIC tests decided to appeal to the Supreme Court after lower courts dismissed their claims. The People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), representatives for the seven job seekers, announced on April 16 that they would file an appeal with the Supreme [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Although studies have recently shown that children’s use of smartphones and tablet PCs could have a harmful effect on their growth and development, educational IT devices are becoming increasingly popular among Korean parents. According to Woongjin Thinkbig’s report on April 9, Woongjin Book Club, the company’s ebook service package [...]
Doha, Qatar, Apr 10, 2015 (Korea Bizwire) –HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand, underscored the importance of education in fighting crime in the recent Doha Youth Forum on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. “The best tool to combat crime is education,” said Princess Bajrakitiyabha. “It is also the best means to unlock the human [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean bhikkhunis (Buddhist nuns) and Myanmar citizens have gathered their efforts to build a new school in a remote town near Yangon, Myanmar. According to an announcement on March 11 from Good Hands, an NGO founded by a Korean Buddhist order, the new school opened on March 9, and is [...]
Busan, Korea, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is to develop the largest maritime engineering aquarium in the world for deep-sea research purposes, such as simulation experiments for the construction of maritime plants. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF), the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) and the city of Busan hosted a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Geum Nana, who is famous for being the first Miss Korea with an elite science high school education, and went on to become a medical student, once again proved her potential to be an inspiring figure among Koreans by publishing a paper in the upcoming issue of Journal of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The student council of state-run Seoul National University (SNU) launched Wednesday a body to cope with sex offenses on campus following a recent series of sexual harassment cases involving professors. Prof. Kang Seok-jin from the Mathematical Sciences Department at SNU, the most prestigious institution of higher learning in the [...]