DAEGU, Korea, Oct 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2013 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the governments of North Gyeongsang Province and Pohang City, will be held for two days between October 19 and 20 at Pohang’s City Gymnasium. The event is sponsored by POSCO, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 08 (Korea Bizwire) – The value of the Korean language is highlighted again as the October 9 Hangul Day is observed as a holiday from this year in 23 years. These days, older people are increasingly concerned about children’s language habits. For example, the way elementary school kids talk is almost [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 01 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on September 30 that it would hold a series of classes for the city’s senior citizens about how not to fall for fraud. The classes will be open immediately after October 2 on the 17th Senior Citizens’ Day. Most people over 65 years of [...]
GOYANG, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lately a book titled “You Can Peek into Our Children’s Mind If You Watch Movies with Them” is gaining attention among parents. The book, written by an elementary school teacher, argues that movie watching can be an excellent tool for kids to learn as well as to [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans in their 40s made 42 percent of purchases of e-book readers, according to a recent survey on ‘Biscuit Tab’ buyers by Interpark, Korea’s online shopping mall. The Biscuit Tab is Interpark’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle, running on Android. And for what purpose did these 40s purchase [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Ban Seung-ho, the principal of Jung-hwa High School in northeastern Seoul under the jurisdiction of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, has published his second single album “People on the Road,” following the first one “Let’s Begin again” three years ago. He said he is doing it to give [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 07 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of the upcoming fall season, Seoul Grand Park has launched a special program “From Seoul Zoo to DMZ,” jointly with School Gimm-Young Publishers, a publishing house specializing in children’s books. Attempted for the first time by the Grand Park, the program allows children to experience firsthand wildlife [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Upcoming September 8 is the 48th International Literacy Day as proclaimed by UNESCO in 1965. To commemorate the anniversary, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris will hold a variety of events to remind us of the importance of literacy and adult education. One of such events will be a [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 30 (Korea Bizwire) – KT announced on August 29 that 26 medical staffers from Kazakhstan visited its Advanced Institute of Technology on the previous day to learn about KT’s health care service, as well as Korea’s next-generation medical technology that combines information and communications technology. The medical team from Kazakhstan has visited [...]
ANYANG, South Korea, Aug 29, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Breeze & BridgeCo., Ltd, a company that attracted a lot of attention from the education industry three months ago after the launch of their active learning travel workbook ‘QR’s Jolly – Gyeongju’ has announced that they will release a Gongju/Buyeo and Jeju edition on August 23rd. The [...]