SEJONG, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has announced it will increase support for university laboratories that show potential, helping to create job opportunities. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT announced plans to choose five universities to support next year as part of their job creation initiative, during [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Rows of shelves crammed with books that crisscrossed rooms like walls are now a thing of the past – at least when it comes to university libraries in South Korea. Universities are doing away with rows upon rows of musty books, and pivoting towards current social trends as they [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Student unions from a number of universities in Seoul are ramping up efforts to tackle the growing problem of voyeurism that is plaguing university campuses around the country. In the wake of the failure of universities and law enforcement to address the growing threat of voyeurism facing female students, student [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanyang University announced Monday that it had completed the first year of a project to create a database for overseas cultural heritage in Korea. Led by anthropology professor Bae Ki-dong, the team’s endeavor took off in September 2015 for a three-year investigation under the support of the National Research [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University, one of the most prestigious universities in Korea, has published the world’s first Chinese-Chinese-Korean bilingual dictionary, which can help people learn both Chinese and Korean. The dictionary offers definitions of Chinese words in Chinese and Korean together. The bilingual dictionary was developed by 228 professors from 126 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — University students from seven universities in Korea are increasingly volunteering to work as part-timers between classes at various nearby workplaces to receive university meal plan tickets as wages, and donate them to students who are having financial difficulties. The volunteering is part of a venture-project that started at Hanyang [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean health authorities have confirmed that five more people have been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, bringing the tally to 30 as of June 3. The Korean government has already stated that the virus has low infectivity, with Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo even saying that citizens [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to a change in tax withholding practice by the tax authorities, most fixed-income earners are not getting as much tax return as before in exchange for lower withholding every month. Although the end-of-the-year take-home income remains the exactly same as before, people feel they lost a lot from [...]