SEOUL, April 18, (Korea Bizwire) — A series of attempted child abductions reported near elementary schools in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district has sparked growing concern among parents and prompted increased police surveillance, authorities confirmed on Friday. On April 17, 2025, police received a report that an unidentified man approached a student near A Elementary School [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Those who pass the teacher employment exam for elementary schools in Seoul currently have to wait for more than a year before getting a job, government data showed Tuesday, amid declining demand for teachers resulting from the decrease in the number of school-age children and a plunging birth rate. New [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Mobis Co., the auto parts making unit of Hyundai Motor Group. said Tuesday it will donate air-purifying plants grown by management staff to elementary schools as part of its ‘classroom forest’ project. The company plans to send 2,500 plants to 10 schools this year. In celebration of Arbor [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that it will begin supplying fruits to childcare facilities at elementary schools on Monday. The project will replace some of the bread and corn dogs given out to children with fruits more than once per week. This year, the government plans [...]
CHEONGJU, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a plunging fertility rate and population aging crisis, residents of rural areas in South Korea are going all-out to attract students from urban areas since they regard it as the only solution to prevent elementary schools in their villages from closing down. The number of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing is becoming a priority in elementary schools, posing difficulties to teachers and students alike. As elementary schools began online classes due to coronavirus concerns, most outdoor play activities such as hide-and-seek and soccer were halted. Teachers are striving to come up with [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Upper elementary students turned out to have the highest satisfaction with online schooling, while high school students feel the most uncomfortable, a recent survey showed. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Korean schools offered classes online for the first time in their history. Educational content firm SchoolJam conducted [...]
CHEONGJU, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The landscape of student president elections at elementary schools has changed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As elementary schools began the new school year late on Monday, elections for student presidents, normally held in March, have just taken place. Buyong Elementary School, located in Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong Province, [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said Tuesday it will develop and distribute new educational content to help students develop their “media literacy” capabilities to critically evaluate media reports. The new content has been created as an auxiliary textbook concept that will be used in Korean language classes for fifth and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of elementary schools in South Korea operated after-school English classes for first and second graders last year, following the government’s partial deregulation at the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Education said Tuesday. The ministry said 3,409, or 55.3 percent, of the 6,167 elementary schools [...]