SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report has revealed a sharp increase in the number of elementary school teachers in South Korea leaving their jobs prematurely, reaching a five-year high in 2023. According to data obtained by Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Sun-mee from regional education offices, the early resignation rate among elementary school teachers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The results of a recent study indicate that elementary students who frequently use social media platforms like Facebook and KakaoTalk tend to have a more negative perception of their bodies. Published in the latest edition of the “Health and Social Welfare Review” by the Korea Institute for Health and Social [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Student enrollment in elementary schools nationwide is expected to drop below 400,000 for the first time this year due to the nation’s rock-bottom birth rate, officials forecast Wednesday, citing data from the education and interior ministries. According to the government data compiled as of Dec. 20, 413,056 children are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elementary school freshmen nationwide is expected to drop below the 400,000 mark next year for the first time amid South Korea’s record low birth rates. Education insiders widely predict that the number of elementary school freshmen for the 2024 academic year, born in 2017, may fall [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Vice Education Minister Jang Sang-yoon said Tuesday it has become “realistically difficult” to continue to push ahead with a widely unpopular proposal to lower the elementary school starting age by one year to 5. The remark was seen as meaning the government is scrapping the proposal after Education Minister [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting as early as 2025, all children in South Korea will likely be allowed to enter elementary school one year earlier, according to an education ministry report Friday. Reporting this year’s key policy plans to President Yoon Suk-yeol, the ministry said it will soon begin full-fledged discussions on lowering [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Each new elementary school student in Seoul will be given a one-off allowance of 200,000 won (US$167) beginning this year, its education chief said Wednesday. The allowance, formally named “school admission preparation subsidy,” will be first paid to about 69,800 first graders in the capital this year, Cho Hee-yeon, [...]
GOYANG, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipal government in Goyang, north of Seoul, has set up a curtain vine at a local elementary school, a move that has been welcomed by the community. The green vine curtain at Yangil Elementary School was created by growing hyacinth beans, which were first planted in May. The [...]
SEJONG, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary school students are taking up the challenge to acquire driver’s licenses to ride bicycles more safely. A total of 49 students from Saetteum Elementary School in the central administrative city of Sejong began taking ‘bicycle license tests’ at school last week. For student safety, the school began to [...]
HOENGSEONG, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jae-yeon, the principal of Anheung Elementary School in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province, stepped onto the school’s sports field on Tuesday morning as the new semester began. He was to greet Kim Seo-ah, a 7-year-old girl who came holding her grandmother’s hand to begin her first day as the [...]