SEOUL, Korea, April 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A study shows that the competition rate for community colleges reached 7.7 to one, meaning only one out of 7.7 applicants is admitted. It also revealed that the number of “U-turn freshmen,” who have graduated from a four-year university and re-enrolled in a community college, have increased [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – After the Constitutional Court of Korea ruled that the so-called “shutdown policy” — which had been introduced in 2010 — legal, the local game industry showed extreme backlash, criticizing the decision was a contradictory ruling against the current regulatory reform stance of the government. The policy mandated [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, the price of a teaching-related stock depends on whether the service carries English contents. Education service providers specializing in English education such as Credu, YBM Sisa.com have thrived while companies closely related to public education such as Visang Edu and Megastudy have suffered a heavy [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 22, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of test taker of the TOPIK, or the Test of Proficiency in Korean, has hit a record-high level. The Ministry of Education and the National Institute for International Education said on April 20 that a total of 72,079 applicants took the TOPIK test held on [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Today there are as many 5.1 million dual-income households in Korea. Although some of them take their children to daycare centers nearby for a fee, still the majority of them rely on the care of their parents who are typically in their 60s and 70s. For grandfathers [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – In today’s highly competitive world, exactly how much effort is put in to “self-improve” by employees and young job applicants? And what could be the most effective way of self-improving? According to JobKorea, Korea’s job search portal, which conducted a survey on 314 office workers and job [...]
![[Feature] Samsung’s Dilemma in Continuing Paper-based Aptitude Test](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1969185955_8add08fc7d_z.jpg "[Feature] Samsung’s Dilemma in Continuing Paper-based Aptitude Test")
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has long been one of the best companies to work for in Korea and this year was no different. Early in the morning on Sunday April 13, tens of thousands of young men and women woke up at dawn and went to test sites across the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2014 London Book Fair was held for three days from April 8 to April 10 at Earls Court, London. Korea was the fair’s “market focus” this year, or guest of honor, with its own pavilion at the fair. This is the first time for Korean publishers [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study showed that college graduates or college-enrolled job seekers suffer most from “hypersensitivity” among many symptoms of stress. Hypersensitivity is a symptom of stress which makes the sufferer to overreact to even tenuous stimulation due to destabilization of the nerve system. Korea’s online job search portal “Job Korea” [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the government’s constant threat of crackdown on illegal tutoring on college-bound students, the so-called “college entrance exam consulting” is still thriving. Often it is evolving in quite unusual ways. Some of them visit the student’s house just before the application deadline to pick and choose schools that [...]