SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korean universities prepare to broaden “undecided major” admission tracks for the 2025 academic year, a new survey found over 60% of current high school seniors view the policy expansion favorably. The poll released on March 19 by Jongro Academy showed 64.5% of 1,104 students surveyed agreed with increasing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past year, high school seniors who received private education on career and college consulting spent an average of over 1 million won on an annual basis, while those who sought tutoring for essay writing spent around 4 million won, according to recent data. According to the “2022 Private [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — When nearly half a million students sit down across the country for the all-important once-a-year college entrance exam this week, a group of 10 teenage inmates will join the test in their separate test room set up behind bars. The exam takers are students of Mandela Boys’ School, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — While the South Korean legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is raising awareness about people with autism spectrum disorders, only a few people with autism are actually able to attend university, data showed Sunday. Rep. Lee Eun-joo of the minor opposition Justice Party quoted a report from the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The jobs that are least popular among university students are the ones that do not keep regular working hours, a survey showed Sunday. The Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training conducted a survey of 8,353 juniors at universities nationwide to gain insight into their job preferences. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases in South Korea, major universities in Seoul are choosing to give lectures online for the second semester, resulting in disappointment among freshmen. Following Yonsei University’s decision to hold all lectures online until October, Konkuk University and Kyunghee University also decided to hold [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A university in Seoul is moving to become the country’s first university to partially refund tuition amid the ongoing pandemic, possibly sending shock waves in the higher education circles. As the global crisis caused by the novel coronavirus has created a major disruption in the way the country’s higher [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Police said Monday they began a preliminary probe into North Korean-style posters that appeared on walls at several universities nationwide lampooning the current Moon Jae-in government over its key policies. The National Police Agency said it is gathering facts on a number of 112 calls made since Saturday with [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Students are divided over a recent male beauty contest held at a spring camp at a college in North Jeolla Province. Some argue that the event was held to sexually objectify male students, while others claim that it was a simple friendship-building exercise without any unfair intentions. More than [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Student outcry continues to grow on campuses across the nation over class-size restrictions, as universities struggle to appease students while also facing government-mandated structure reforms on higher education facilities. University websites have been inundated with online messages posted by students looking to swap classes with others, with some desperate [...]