SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea will fully implement a new 12-year compulsory education system, a North Korean paper reported Wednesday, three days ahead of the start of a new semester in the communist country. “The 12-year obligatory school system will be enforced on a full scale this year,” the Rodong Sinmun, a [...]
JEJU, SOUTH KOREA, March 10 (Koreabiz Wire) – An elementary school teacher on Jeju Island has been suspended for three months after school officials found the teacher used bullying as a form of punishment for students. The female teacher – whose name and school cannot be named – was found guilty of child abuse for what [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Student outcry continues to grow on campuses across the nation over class-size restrictions, as universities struggle to appease students while also facing government-mandated structure reforms on higher education facilities. University websites have been inundated with online messages posted by students looking to swap classes with others, with some desperate [...]
NONSAN, South Korea, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seodang were traditional Korean village schools that provided elementary and sometimes secondary education. Their roots go all the way back to the Goguryeo Kingdom (37 BC – 668 AD), but they were of greatest importance during the Goryeo (918 – 1392) and Joseon (1392 – 1897) dynasties. [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 35 percent of thirtysomethings in South Korea remained unmarried last year amid a widespread late marriage trend in the country, census data showed Monday. According to the 2015 census by Statistics Korea, out of 42.7 million people aged 15 or over, 13.4 million, or 31.3 percent, were [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Computer programming has become an essential aspect of modern society, in which we are increasingly surrounded by infrastructure and products brought to life through code and computer languages like Java or C. In line with these tech innovations, the number of patents related to computer programming education has increased [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The result of an interpretation of legislation has revealed that it is not considered animal abuse if animals are used for the purposes of education. An inquiry from a civil petitioner alleged that it should be illegal to make use of animals for testing purposes at school, under charges [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) unveiled Tuesday the TIMSS 2015, a report highlighting international study trends for mathematics and science based on 270,000 elementary and middle school students in 49 countries. TIMSS provides a comparative analysis of educational achievements every four years after students [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The level of received school education matters most when it comes to reducing the risk of high blood pressure, a medical study suggested Tuesday, breaking the conventional notion that illnesses are closely tied to income. A research team led by Lee Hae-young of Seoul National University Hospital looked into [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students studying in South Korea topped the 120,000-mark for the first time last month, the justice ministry said Friday. It was tallied at 122,082 as of the end of September, up 3.8 percent from the previous month and up 19.6 percent from a year earlier. [...]