SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing concern, instances have emerged of South Korean college students using ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, to complete their coursework and tests. Universities, however, are being criticized for their apparent lack of effective countermeasures to address the issue. Seoul National University recently began discussions with the school’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of dropouts has been increasing at major universities in Seoul in the last three years, largely due to the increasing number of students enrolling in medical school. Jongno Academy, an educational institution for college admissions, reported that there were 7,111 dropouts from 11 major universities in Seoul [...]
SUWON/YONGIN, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More college students from overseas are entering South Korea for Korean language studies and Korean cultural programs as universities are restarting summer international exchange programs that were suspended due to the pandemic. Ajou University has been running a Summer School program for 20 college students from Uzbekistan since July [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With social distancing measures being lifted, young adults in South Korea are increasingly concerned about when to join the military. When college students were de facto banned from enjoying life on campus as lectures were given online, they lined up to carry out their mandatory military service. Now, however, [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Although South Korean university students are experiencing various difficulties due to employment struggles and expensive college tuition, their stress level is different by gender and their parents’ income and academic level, a study showed Monday. A research team from Korea University carried out a latent profile analysis based on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. has been named as the most desirable company to work for by college students for the second straight year. Job search portal JobKorea conducted a survey of 1,106 college students, 15.3 percent of whom picked Kakao as the company that they [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to college students, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been felt hardest by freshmen and sophomores — some of whom have never met their classmates, let alone gone to a school festival. One 20-year-old student at Incheon National University, west of Seoul, said he has [...]
CHUNCHEON, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed coronavirus case in South Korea nears, a return to in-person classes for college students remains elusive, prompting some to take time off instead. Park Go-eun, a 22-year-old college student, decided to take one year off after months of consideration. “It felt [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — As criticism against the poor quality of college education ensues in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, students are taking legal action, demanding that their tuition be refunded. The National University Student Council Network and Movement for Tuition Refund, composed of student councils from over 30 universities nationwide, held [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are raising funds to help overcome the coronavirus. Students and alumni at Korea University have raised 12.2 million won (US$10,300) since last Friday, all of which will be sent to medical centers in virus-hit Daegu this Friday. A different fundraiser organized by eight students from Korea University and [...]