SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow online joint degree programs among universities at home and abroad beginning next year, education officials said Wednesday. During an inter-ministerial meeting on social issues, the Ministry of Education presented a series of measures to promote remote learning based on digital technologies in the COVID-19 era. [...]
CHUNCHEON, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gangwon Fire Headquarters announced on Tuesday that it had developed the nation’s first smart cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) manual in a moving picture format as part of efforts to contribute to enhancing the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients as well as to raise public awareness about the four [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s ritzy southern neighborhood of Daechi, known as a major cluster of cram schools in the country, may be one of the areas that has been most affected by the government’s toughened social distancing guidelines aimed at containing the new coronavirus. The neighborhood, where one can sometimes spot people [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul education authorities plan to launch a mentoring program to prevent online classes from widening the achievement gap among students. Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE), unveiled Wednesday the second semester school opening plan as well as measures to address the achievement gap in [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co. has reopened its social contribution program through ‘untact’ means to limit the spread of the coronavirus. South Korea’s biggest auto parts maker announced Thursday that it will reopen its Junior Engineering Class for educating future scientists by transitioning the program to an online setting. The Junior [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean medical community has adopted virtual reality (VR) technology for the education of medical specialists with expertise on thoracic surgery. This move is line with the ever-growing ‘untact’ trend that has taken hold in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak. The newly-coined term ‘untact’ refers to non-face-to-face [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is set to expand Korean language education in Asian nations, by rolling out a support project to train locals there as professional Korean language teachers, the ministry said Wednesday. The plan is in line with the ministry’s core project unveiled in February to bolster overseas Korean [...]
SUWON, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the existing framework of education being challenged by the outbreak of the coronavirus, the future of schooling will likely to undergo a paradigm shift from education to learning, a new report predicted. The Gyeonggi Research Institute (GRI) issued on Sunday a new report titled “Future Brought Forward by [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Thursday that it will open the Korea-Indonesia Ocean Expert Cultivation Program at Indonesia’s Bandung University. This program is aimed at fostering as many as 70 Indonesian students as professionals with master’s degrees in the areas of ocean research and analysis by [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — All elementary, middle and high school students in South Korea have been attending remote classes since Tuesday. In a similar situation, countries around the world are also adopting remote education-based measures amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation and the Korean Educational Development Institute [...]