SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening of South Korea’s foreign exchange market will be delayed by one hour on the day of the college entrance exam this week, the committee in charge of the foreign exchange market said Tuesday. The foreign exchange market is set to open at 10 a.m. and close at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided on Wednesday to postpone the state-administered college entrance exam by a week as a rare 5.4-magnitude quake struck the southeastern city of Pohang and caused fissures in some school buildings there. The Ministry of Education announced that the date for the College Scholastic Aptitude Test has [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – An overwhelming proportion of exam-takers chose the Arabic language for the second foreign language section of this year’s state-administered annual scholastic aptitude test, a state-run think tank on school curricula said Wednesday. The results of graded scores on the test for the 2017 academic year, announced by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 600,000 high school seniors and graduates began their state-administered college entrance exam Thursday morning. Also known as the College Scholastic Ability Test, or Suneung in Korean, the test’s results will play a crucial role in college applications that will determine academic endeavors and future careers. The exam [...]
BANGKOK, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Thailand announced on July 8 that the Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) decided to include Korean as one of the second languages on the Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT), which is a college entrance exam. The Ministry of Education [...]