SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) violated copyright law by posting exam questions containing literary and artistic works on its website without proper compensation. The court’s decision, made by the Third Division under Justice Noh Jeong-hee, upholds a lower court’s partial [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the chances of passing a public service examination are proportional to household income. The study showed that public service examinations, commonly understood as an opportunity to get a job regardless of social status, can also be subject to inequality. According to a recent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities said early Tuesday that three of the four newborns who died successively in an intensive care unit last week may have been infected with an antibiotics-resistant virus. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) revealed its interim result on the preliminary blood culture tests of [...]
SUWON, South Korea, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – “Male examinees should use a ‘urination bag’ at the back of the examination room, and female examinees should also take care of their business at the back of the examination room while a proctor uses an umbrella to set up a screen.” To everyone’s surprise, these were actual [...]