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 [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts say that the reason why the gap between salary levels increases as employees get older is not because of labor productivity but because of an individual’s level of education at the time of initial employment. Wage inequality typically grows over time among male workers of similar ages, mainly [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The management agency of K-pop boy band BTS launched a series of short video clips designed to provide Korean language education to non-Korean fans, and the series is receiving positive responses from the public. Big Hit Entertainment released the first three episodes of the series, “Learn Korean with BTS,” [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s education ministry on Tuesday released tightened guidelines for cram schools to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus on fears of group transmissions breaking out in the private-sector education institutions. Under the advisory, local and provincial governments will be able to impose a ban on group activities [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The management agency of K-pop boy band BTS will this week launch a series of short video clips designed to provide Korean language education to non-Korean fans, the agency said Monday. Big Hit Entertainment said the first three episodes of the series, “Learn Korean with BTS,” will hit Weverse, [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In its latest tactic to combat the new coronavirus, South Korea on Friday again asked private sector cram schools to temporarily suspend classes to prevent group transmissions. The move comes in line with the government’s recent decision to push back the new school year by three weeks to March [...]
ULSAN, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education said Tuesday it will expand and operate its “Visiting Animal Love Education” for elementary school students this year. Last year, the municipal education office received applications from elementary schools that wanted such education and held 675 education sessions at 88 schools and for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday announced a plan to transform three categories of elite high schools into general schools by 2025 to promote fairness in education and improve overall public education. The education ministry said autonomous private, foreign language and international high schools will be deprived of their status of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Countries are expanding social childcare and education systems in attempt to eliminate career breaks for women caused by childbirth and childcare. Unlike in major developed countries, however, the employment rate of women and kindergarten enrollment of children in South Korea is not directly proportional. According to an analysis released [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The distribution of virtual reality (VR) textbooks for elementary school students, an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, is being hindered by restrictions that ban children from using VR headsets. According to the guidelines set by the government, VR is defined as recreational content for school curricula that [...]