SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Bank of Korea (BOK) Gov. Rhee Chang-yong on Friday called for reforming South Korea’s college entrance system in order to nurture talents capable of leading innovations. Rhee made the point during the opening ceremony of a research institute on population and talent issues at Yonsei University in Seoul. “Leading [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80% of Generation Z college students in South Korea oppose recent tuition hikes, according to a new survey released on March 13. The study, conducted by Vinulabs Insight through the college community platform Everytime, surveyed 204 university students between February 28 and March 4. It found that 84.8% [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed that 60.5% of South Korean college students and recent graduates are “passive job seekers,” highlighting growing concerns about the country’s employment market for young people. The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) surveyed 2,938 students and graduates from four-year universities nationwide for their “2024 University Student [...]
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 [...]