SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Garden Project — urban agriculture and the local food movement aimed at providing healing and educational programs — will be cultivated in earnest in Korea. The Garden Project announced last week that the world’s famous “garden project” will be up and running across the nation after four years of preparation [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group’s “Passion Talk,” a series of talk concerts targeting university students since 2011 was held in China, the first-ever talk concert held overseas. The talk concert held at the 100th Anniversary Memorial Hall in Beijing University on June 10 attracted more than 3,000 Korean and Chinese students. Initially, [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom will step into the Chinese “Smart Class” market with a strategic partnership with China’s Zhongqing Group providing smart class solution to 1,300 classes in China. The largest mobile carrier in Korea announced on June 8 the agreement with the China’s IT education and Smart Class provider and that the two [...]
NEW YORK, June 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Education giant Kaplan is strengthening its place in the expanding market of technology bootcamps with the launch of two new programs this summer: one for aspiring data scientists and one for aspiring product designers. Both bootcamps will operate under Kaplan’s new Metis brand of intensive learning programs, launched in [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A very special class was offered on June 3 in “Global Together Eumseong,” a Samsung-owned social enterprise, which is a unique support center for multicultural families in South Korea. The center is located in Eumseong, North Chuncheong Province. Samsung offered a service training session for 20 of female baristas [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Marking the World Environment day which came on June 5th, Samsung Engineering, one of Samsung Group affiliates, opened “Outreach Environment Class” on June 3. Samsung’s “green cause” program is aimed at raising awareness on environmental conservation which was given to school children residing in Hwasung and Gi-heung City in the [...]
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SEOUL, June 04 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly every Seoul citizen had not the faintest idea who he was and even wasn’t aware of the fact that he had run as a candidate for the Seoul Education Superintendent in the local election, which was held on June 4. His approval rating couldn’t score a two-digit number [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A spot on the podium has once again been made for “Queen of Ice” Yuna Kim, as her biography becomes a bestseller in Children’s book corner in bookstores immediately after its publishing. Meanwhile, the children’s No. 1 selling book has recently been caught up in a controversy as images [...]
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 [...]