SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting this October, the city government of Seoul will offer five programs designed to offer high school students who choose not to enter college opportunities for continued education, self-improvement, and future career planning. The ratio of high school students in Seoul entering college has dropped from 62.8 percent in [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Celebration of one hundredth day of newborns and their first birthday are important milestones for Korean parents with small children. All family members and relatives gather to bless newborns, enjoy the parties, and give some cash gifts to babies’ parents. After collecting the money from their friends and [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning of Korea, a recently established government body aimed at putting the value of creative scientific imagination on the Korean industrial map, is launching five citizen-participating social labs in four cities across the country. The labs, named Infinite Imagination Labs, will [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Choi Yun-sik, director of the ‘Asia Futures HR Institute,’ was appointed the inaugural director of the ‘Institute for Future Technology and Business Management’ at the State University of New York Korea (SUNY Korea) located at Songdo’s international business district in Incheon. Dr. Choi will officially begin his term [...]
Daegu, Korea, August 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Province of North Gyeongsang held the ‘2013 secondary language competition for children from multi-cultured families’ on August 14 to help the children better understand the culture of their parents and to improve their language skills. More than 38 teams participated in this year’s competition competing in seven different languages [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service will jointly promote their ‘Rainbow Bridge Project’ as part of their cultural diversity policy that aims for cohabitation among the different social and cultural actors living together in our society. Different from other cultural diversity programs, [...]
Bucheon, Korea, August 08 (Korea Bizwire) – If you’re a Jew, you will be quite surprised about South Korea’s enthusiasm about everything Jewish. South Koreans, aware of their small territory and its lack of natural resources, have always stressed the importance of human resources which is often stated as ‘the only resource we’ve got’ by Koreans. Thus [...]
JEJU, SOUTH KOREA, August 07, 2013 (Korea Bizwire ) – The Jeju Global Education City (JGEC) project, which has helped fuel the ‘studying in Jeju’ boom as an alternative to studying abroad, will be extended and dramatically altered, including adjustment of the number of schools to have campuses in the city. The Korean government recently [...]
SEOUL, Korea, August 06 (Korea Bizwire) – Why are children so into petty, simple video games, when they are not rewarded with anything but useless virtual coins for playing them? It’s quite a show to watch little ones so obsessed with their cute characters obtaining an equally cute alien spaceship. We adore these little beings but we [...]
Pyeongchang, Korea, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The second annual Pyeongchang Outdoor Festival will be held for three days between August 2 and 4 in the mountainous town of Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province. Sponsored jointly by the Ministry of the Gender Equality & Family and Korea Youth Work Agency and hosted by the Pyeongchang National Youth [...]