SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A dictionary will be published for Cia-Cia tribe, an ethnic minority in Indonesia that adopted Hangul, the Korean alphabet, as its official writing system 10 years ago. The Asia Development Foundation announced on Monday that it will sponsor Jung Deuk-young, 58, a Hangul instructor at Cia-Cia Hangul School, to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a promoter of the Korean language and culture overseas, has revealed today that it is distributing a smartphone application that allows users to study the language on mobile devices. The app provides three categories of studies: basic grammar, conversation and mid-level vocabulary. The application [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With K-pop music breaking global music records, the number of international students who arrived in South Korea last year to study Korean also reached an all-time high. And for the first time, the number of language students surpassed those who were in the nation to earn an academic degree. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A fifth-grade class’s list of suggestions on eliminating vulgarity and typos from the country’s most popular online messaging app Kakao Talk was acknowledged by company CEO Lim Ji-hoon, who said that the ideas are being considered. Last month, Lee Ki-tae and his class of fifth-graders at Wonho Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center, said Friday the number of subscribers on its online-learning website has surpassed 100,000. The subscriber volume for Nuri-Sejonghakdang (www.sejonghakdang.org), which stood at 60,000 in 2015, reached the milestone in just about 1 1/2 years, according to the institute. Launched [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Namdaemun, officially known as Sungnyemun, is currently the No.1 treasure of South Korea. It is one of the eight gates of a fortress wall that surrounded Seoul during the Joseon dynasty. However, for the past 20 years, experts and civic groups have debated over whether to give Hunminjeongeum the designation [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s overseas language promotion institute will host special events starting in June that will help foreigners get acquainted with Korean culture, the government said Sunday. The cultural ministry said foreign learning centers run by the King Sejong Institute that specializes in teaching Hangul will carry out “Korean culture day” programs [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Three Kookmin University students have developed ‘Phonics Method’ learning game materials for children with dyslexia. According to a university announcement on June 14, the students from the Department of Education created a set of gaming materials that children can use to learn to relate phonetic traits with words. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — An exhibition on the everyday life of Korean children is currently being held in the U.S. From November 15, 2014, the exhibition ‘Heart and Seoul: Growing up in Korea’ has been open to the public at the Children’s Museum of Houston. The exhibition has been organized so that content [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) –As walking along Cheonggyecheon, a stream that runs through downtown Seoul, you meet many used bookstores where books are piled up like towers. Now only 25 bookstores remain, unlike 200 in their heyday, 1960s through 1970s. Moreover, there are only about 100 secondhand bookstores in the Seoul metro area. Although [...]