GANGNEUNG, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Asean-Korea Centre is hosting the 2016 ASEAN School Tour Program Friday at Dano Culture Center in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. The event is being co-hosted with the Gangwon Education Office, Gangneung Office of Education, and Gangneung Dano Festival Committee, and some 450 middle school students and teachers from the city [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s unyielding economic slump and more frequent corporate restructuring are driving employees to quickly prepare for a hazy future. These employees are referred to as saladents – a portmanteau of the words salaryman and student. According to a retail industry watcher, Hyundai Home Shopping generated 30 billion won in [...]
SUWON, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Gyeonggi Province’s ‘English Villages’ are closing down after 12 years of operation. Instead, they will be redeveloped into talent-training institutes, offering various educational programs that are more future-oriented. An English Village was first established in 2004 in Ansan in an effort to create an environment that would offer professional [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government is taking measures to create a system that can spot children in danger before they suffer any harm. The current system is reactive instead of proactive, as authorities take action only after child abuse is reported. According to new measures decided on by the government, a [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A television program for Korean language education will air throughout China in the second half of the year, the first of its kind in the Chinese-speaking world, a government agency said Thursday. China Education Television (CETV) will broadcast the program composed of 100 three-minute episodes from October to next [...]
SEOUL, Feb.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that graduates of universities that have a high social status are more satisfied with their lives. Apart from being able to land high-paying jobs, a recent study revealed that those who graduate from good schools have higher self-esteem and a better life at home, proving that happiness does [...]
SEJONG, Feb.10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that higher income groups spend eight times more money on education per month compared to lower income groups. Considering that education is often seen as a means to improving social status, some are concerned that the wide disparity in education expenditures is leading to a [...]
SEOUL, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Riches, education and social status are being passed down in current Korean society, proving that there are no ‘rags to riches’ fairy tales anymore. According to an investigation conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the ‘gold spoon, dirt spoon class theory’ currently mentioned by young people [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, multi-ethnic families are called ‘multi-cultural families’, which is a term that was introduced to replace discriminating and degrading terms that were used before. However, research shows that the children of multi-ethnic families do not like the term ‘multi-cultural family’. Recently, Konkuk University hosted a forum entitled ‘The Teacher’s [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – High school students will have more opportunities to experience theater, starting in 2018. The Ministry of Education has announced a draft proposing new curricula for physical education, the arts, music and health education. To increase students’ knowledge in the liberal arts, ‘theater’ was established as a general subject. Before, [...]