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 [...]
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 [...]