SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea was ranked No. 1 again in terms of the private share of public education cost among 34 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development members for 14 consecutive years. According to the Ministry of Education on September 9 based on data released by the OECD, the ratio of public education [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A government official flying over from Singapore won the top prize on ‘Quiz on Korea,’ a quiz show in which foreigners around the world compete against one another about facts or knowledge relating to Korea. Cohosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), the [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 6 (Korea Bizwire) –Next-generation’s leaders from 24 countries will come together in the U.S. next month as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the U.S. State Department’s initiative to foster international civic and citizenship education and promote and exchange various ideas from the oncoming generation of leaders around the world. As with South [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Woongjin ThinkBig is betting big on a new “book club” business. The company increased its capital by 35 billion won on August 29 in order to use the fund to invest in the book club service introduced just last month. Given it had streamlined a number of new businesses of late, this [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy held an opening ceremony for Belgium’s Ghent University and the University of Utah from the United States in the Incheon Free Economic Zone of Songdo on September 1. Ghent University, one of the renowned institutions of higher learning for biosciences, gained permission in November [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – An instant automatic translation application for a smartphone has been newly released so that with its new version users are expected to make good use of it when traveling in another country, even without the Internet connection. On Sep. 1, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) launched and [...]
![[Quote] Inspirational Life Journey of Phamti Phuong, Vietnamese Immigrant Woman](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phamti-Phuong_quotes-800x1066.jpg "[Quote] Inspirational Life Journey of Phamti Phuong, Vietnamese Immigrant Woman")
“I wasn’t a professional because I did not know what to do or what to say exactly when an immigrant woman asked for help. Through the master course, however, I came to learn how to approach to the problems these women and multiracial families are faced with. There were a lot of “aha” moments while [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A third “Lotte School” has been open in Vietnam. Lotte Department Store, jointly with international charity organization Plan Korea, said on August 22 that it held a groundbreaking ceremony to build a school in a mountain village in Thai Nguyen Province in the northeast. With the total population of 1.2 million, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Incheon Transportation Corporation announced on August 21 that it has installed the world’s first “IT Aquarium,” for which feeding, cleaning and water exchanging is done automatically, in Gyeyang Subway Station. The “IT Aquarium” has integrated high-tech and tradition, as it presents various exotic fish in an IT-controlled aquarium embedded on a wall [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians was opened in Seoul’s COEX Convention & Exhibition Center on August 13. Started in 1897 in Zurich, Switzerland, the once-in-four-year event sponsored by the International Mathematical Union will be held until the 21st under the theme of “sharing” (nanum in Korean) and giving hopes and dreams [...]