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High School Students Learn More About Economics from TV than School: Survey

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — High school students learn about economics primarily from television shows and social media, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Economy and Finance conducted a survey of 750 elementary, middle, and high school students, in which 47.1 percent of high schoolers said they learn about economics mostly from “news [...]

BOK Launches University Economics Course

SEOUL, Feb.10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Bank of Korea (BOK) will manage a course on economic education at a university. Bank officials announced that they will open a course called ‘Research on Policies and the Market’ at the graduate schools of economics at Yonsei and Sogang universities, and give lectures on macroeconomic theory. Employees from [...]