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 [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ‘Teen Astronauts’ succeeded in launching four space balloons, which are supposed to record the earth from the stratosphere. And a miniature Tayo bus, which looks like the characters of Korean popular 3D animation, “Tayo the Little Bus,” was on board the spaceship. The young enthusiastic space explorers [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Cultural Properties Research Institute under the Cultural Heritage Administration said that it discovered remnants of ancient red beans in a recent archaeological survey in Yangyang, Gangwon Province. The field probe was conducted jointly with researchers at the Prehistory Museum in Osan-ri. According to the scientists who participated in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Endowments of colleges in the U.S. earned decent returns while Korean universities suffered great losses. The Wall Street Journal reported on September 23 that “Harvard, the World’s Wealthiest University, Reported a 15.4 Percent Investment Return for Fiscal 2014.” Its performance is weaker compared with certain peers but “those returns exceeded [...]