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. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — On Thursday, as South Korean students sat for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), civic groups gathered to protest the current college-centric education system. ‘The Hidden Bag for Change by Rejecting College Entrance Examinations,’ a student organization, held a press conference in Seoul where six protesters including teenagers and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Aircraft takeoffs and landings will be completely banned across South Korea from 1:05 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, when the 2020 College Scholastic Ability Test’s English listening test will be conducted. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it would ban takeoffs and landings at all airports [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education has effectively rejected requests from teachers’ unions to provide chairs for invigilators during the nationwide college entrance exam. The MOE sent a message to the teachers’ union indicating that the placement of chairs for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) supervisors was an issue that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – While the city of Pohang and its surrounding regions continue to deal with aftershocks from the 5.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the day before, the government delivered its own stunning blow by postponing the state-administered college entrance exam to November 23. Originally scheduled to take place on November 16, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – With a record-setting number of patients diagnosed with ADHD in November, there is speculation as to whether a significant portion are chasing after prescription drugs under the belief that the medication can help boost studying performance. The surge in November diagnoses belies the fact that overall totals of ADHD [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean students undertaking the College Scholastic Ability Test from 2021 will no longer be able to benefit from choosing Arabic as an easy way out, as a new education white paper has revealed government plans to reintroduce an absolute evaluation system to weed out those with little to no [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – November 17 is D-Day for Suneung, Korea’s infamous College Scholastic Ability Test. Traffic will be controlled, airplanes rerouted, and many employees will go to work an hour or so later than usual to help ease traffic congestion, making sure no students are late for the examination that could have [...]
SEOUL, Nov.13 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 12, an orientation was held for students who would sit for the next day’s Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (KSAT) in the 1,216 exam sites across the nation. On the KSAT day, not only the police force but also the military force were mobilized in order to provide any [...]