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Hotline Opens to Protect Medical Students from Peer Bullying

Hotline Opens to Protect Medical Students from Peer Bullying

SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry opened a hotline on Tuesday to protect medical students wanting to return to classes from peer bullying from other students boycotting classes in protest of the government’s increase of the medical school quota. The move came amid reported cases of medical students unwillingly joining the ongoing [...]

Hotline on Teachers’ Rights Infringement to Open Next Month

Hotline on Teachers’ Rights Infringement to Open Next Month

SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A hotline will open next month, allowing teachers to report cases of infringement upon their teaching rights, the education ministry said Tuesday. The plan was announced after the apparent suicide of a young public school teacher distressed by malicious parental complaints last year led to a series of mass [...]

S. Korea, U.S., Japan Install Trilateral Communication Hotline amid N. Korea, China Challenges

S. Korea, U.S., Japan Install Trilateral Communication Hotline amid N. Korea, China Challenges

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan established a trilateral communication hotline, a senior Seoul official said Monday, in another sign of progress in their three-way security cooperation amid North Korea’s evolving military threats and China’s increasing assertiveness. The establishment of the hotline came after President Yoon Suk Yeol [...]