JEJU, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Discarded entrance tickets, flight tickets and specialty snack packages are selling as souvenirs, recalling memories of trips to Jeju. A cultural group in Jeju is holding an experimental event, selling garbage discarded by visitors as souvenirs to raise funds to help establish a local library. Place What?, a Jeju-based [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Korean college students want to find overseas jobs, a survey showed Monday, reflecting their pessimism over the country’s ever-worsening job market and stressful life in Korea Inc. In a nationwide survey of 2,361 students from 132 universities, 59.3 percent responded they prefer overseas jobs over [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Save the Children Fund is holding a photo exhibition featuring 84 photographs taken by children affected by traumatizing events in Korea and Syria. The joint photo exhibition entitled ‘Seoul Meets Za’atari’ is being held at 57th Gallery in Jongno, Seoul from February 6 to 18. The exhibition has been [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Student loans from the government rose nearly three-fold from 2010 to 2014 due to tuition increases, a private research institute said Friday. Outstanding government-funded student loans came to 10.7 trillion won (US$9.8 billion) as of the end of last year, 2.9 times higher than 3.7 trillion won in 2010, [...]
“Recently, representatives from the Japanese government and others have reached out to McGraw-Hill Education asking the company to change the description of ‘comfort women’ in one of our publications.” “Scholars are aligned behind the historical fact of ‘comfort women’ and we unequivocally stand behind the writing, research and presentation of our authors” – [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government is planning to introduce a state-run test for the qualification of child day-care teachers amidst the recent public anger caused by an employee who physically abused children at her day-care center. According to a plan devised by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MW), day-care workers will have [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A court ruled that a decision by a high school to fire an English teacher for incompetence was justified. The teacher had been a target of criticism by students for his abject classroom performance and even got 415 points in the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) test. A TOEIC [...]
SEOUL, Dec.6 (Korea Bizwire) – A high-ranking official of the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation attributed the rising number of test takers who opted for the Vietnamese language as their choice for the second foreign language subject in the College Scholastic Ability Test to the “rising number of students from multiracial families and the increasing international [...]
SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 12, an orientation was held for students who would sit for the next day’s Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (KSAT) in the 1,216 exam sites across the nation. On the KSAT day, not only the police force but also the military force were mobilized in order to provide any [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – As a new government scheme to regulate bookstores from selling their books at excessively discounted prices is set to go into effect, the bookselling industry is busy responding to the change. In order to clear inventories before the November 21 deadline, many online and brick-and-mortar booksellers have gone on bargain sale [...]