SEJONG, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday that it will gradually introduce free education for high school students in a move to ease people’s burdens and guarantee the basic right to education. The measure will affect high schoolers in the second semester of this year, according to the Ministry of Education. The [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — High school students in Seoul have introduced a ‘fair trade vending machine’ that sells chocolates, dried fruits, and other products sourced through fair trade. Members of a student club at Seoul High School in Seoul’s Seocho District, were responsible for introducing the vending machine. “This is South Korea’s very [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office, the government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) agreed Tuesday that the country will provide free education to all high school students starting in 2021. To this end, authorities will begin free education for high school seniors in the fall semester and expand it to [...]
CHEONGJU, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — March 14 is commonly known as White Day for many, an occasion where loved ones share chocolates with one another. But for some, the day is also known as Pi Day. Pi Day commemorates Pierre Jartoux, a Jesuit missionary who rediscovered the mathematical constant that is a ratio of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Foreign Ministry revealed yesterday that four high schools in the Irish capital of Dublin had included the Korean language as one of their elective courses for incoming freshmen students since the August semester. The ministry official said that at each of the four schools, 20 to 30 students [...]
JEJU, South Korea, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Jungang Girls’ High School is one of the biggest high schools on the island with 1,400 students in 37 classes. The school has seen its obesity rate rise in recent years, with students spending more and more hours studying with little physical activity, accompanied by an [...]
Gangwon Province, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – High school students in Gangwon Province’s Cheorwon County went viral on social media after making badges in commemoration of comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery by the imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. Fourteen students from Cheorwon High School’s history club “Jiphyeonjeon” and another history [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Although regional educational offices leave rules regarding use of makeup at the discretion of individual elementary, middle and high schools, students are still restricted in terms of their makeup choices at many Korean schools. “Our school guidelines don’t specify the individual cosmetics products allowed or banned,” said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s urbanization has left very few young people and children in rural areas. This has naturally led to a declining number of students at elementary, middle, and high schools outside of urban areas, many of which have been closed down, with some of the empty buildings now serving [...]
SUWON, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Suwon has just wrapped up construction of a middle and high school for a small village in Siem Reap, a province in Cambodia, announced the city government Thursday. Dubbed the Phnom Krom Suwon Middle and High School, the project was part of Suwon’s three-stage Official Development [...]