SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea reported Friday that brisk preparations were under way for the start of the new academic year in April, including the nationwide distribution of school uniforms and other items. The Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s main newspaper for the general public, published the report as the country prepares to [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on March 18 that it will significantly expand its low-sugar school meal initiative from two to 100 schools, aiming to promote healthier eating habits among students. Following a successful pilot program at two schools last year, the city is now accepting applications until March 24 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a prestigious mathematics academy in Seoul’s affluent Daechi-dong district, known as South Korea’s “education capital,” an admission question for elementary students recently read: “How many times does the digit ’1′ appear in the sum of the series 9+99+999+…+99999999999999999999 (twenty 9s)?” This was part of the academy’s notoriously difficult [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to allow companies to establish in-house graduate schools that can confer official master’s and doctoral degrees, marking a significant shift in corporate education and workforce development. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on January 16, 2025, that the enforcement decree for the “Special [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics announced on December 29 that it plans to more than double the scope of its “Easy Appliance Project” next year, increasing both the number of participating institutions and beneficiaries. The company, in partnership with the Korea Association for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, has already selected 10 welfare centers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government’s ambitious plan to introduce AI-powered digital textbooks (AIDTs) has met with significant resistance from educators and civic groups nationwide, leaving the policy in jeopardy. Initially slated for rollout in March 2025 for select elementary, middle, and high school students, the initiative aimed to bolster digital [...]
CHUNCHEON, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a small elementary school in Gangwon Province, a second-grade classroom became the unlikely setting for a lesson in justice, inspired by South Korea’s recent political turmoil. On December 4, as the nation began to recover from a martial law crisis that had gripped its parliament and public, a teacher, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Microsoft has become the first global tech giant to receive security certification for cloud services in South Korea’s public sector, potentially paving the way for the company to introduce artificial intelligence tools in the nation’s schools. The certification, known as CSAP, was granted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will seek to revitalize Korean language education in foreign elementary and middle schools, the Ministry of Education said Monday, amid growing overseas interest in Korean after author Han Kang’s recent Nobel Prize in literature award. To that end, it will establish a new specialized organization to devise [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean lawmakers boast the highest level of academic credentials among parliamentarians worldwide, with more than one-third holding doctoral degrees, according to a recent academic study featured in The Economist on November 14. The comprehensive research, conducted by scholars from six institutions including Duke University, analyzed the educational backgrounds of [...]