SEOUL, Korea, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Every last Sunday of the month is a TOEIC day. Tens of thousands of college students and young men and women wake up early in the morning to take the test in local middle and high schools. It has been that way for the past three decades [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – According to the results of the “Survey of Internet Addiction 2013” conducted by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National Information Society Agency, one in every four Korean teenagers has a high risk of smartphone addiction. A total of 11.8 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers are much more sensitive than grown-ups to income differences with their peers. This uneasy social trend can be spotted by conversations with the local teens. Interviewed by a local media, a seventh grade student living Seoul, said, “You don’t make friends who live in nice — if not posh — apartments. Since [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of ten college students will seek their parents’ support for their wedding preparation and 40 percent of them will get their support even after their marriage, a survey said. According to Noble Alba, a part-time job information site, which conducted the survey asking 647 university students, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Parents’ burden in the cost of out-of-school private lessons keeps declining since 2009, although the diminishing amount is small, according to a government statistics. Statistics Korea announced on February 27 that the cost of private education spent in Korea last year totaled 18.6 trillion won ($17.4 billion), a [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Just ahead of the beginning of a new school year on March 2, a survey revealed the biggest headache for parents with elementary schoolchildren was their children’s relationship with friends. According to WeekOn, a learning community, based on a survey conducted on 2,250 parents of school-age children between [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 21 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey, Korean adults read 9.2 books a year, less than a book a month. However, students read much more books than adults, albeit the books are mostly for their study. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism conducted the survey on the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year the average sleeping time for high school students was 5 hours and 27 minutes, almost 1 hour shorter than that four years ago. According to data released by the National Youth Policy Institute on February 17 based on a survey on 9,521 students between 4th and [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Security and Public Administration said on February 19 that it has closed the application on the 7th for its 2014 exam for 9th-grade (the lowest public officer grade) government employees and the total applicant numbers were 193,840 for only 3,000 slots. That’s the rate [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 12, (Korea Bizwire) – Hallyu or Korean Wave has been an unprecedented heat and it continues to flourish in Malaysia. With these phenomenon, now there have been a growing demand for the Korean language among Malaysians, especially who love Korean wave & culture. Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) & King Sejong institute [...]