SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The government needs to establish measures to subsidize kindergarten fees for children of foreign nationality residing in the country, the state human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said it made this recommendation in response to a petition filed by a civic group, [...]
ANSAN, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people infected with a strain of E. coli bacteria rose to 57 south of Seoul, while the source of the bacteria is still unknown, health authorities said Saturday. Health authorities have widened a probe into the E. coli outbreak in the city of Ansan, about 50 [...]
ANSAN/SUWON, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — One hundred students and teachers at a kindergarten in Ansan, just south of Seoul, have complained of food poisoning symptoms over the past week, with about one third of them hospitalized for hamburger disease and other disorders, municipal health officials said Thursday. According to the officials in Ansan, about [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Countries are expanding social childcare and education systems in attempt to eliminate career breaks for women caused by childbirth and childcare. Unlike in major developed countries, however, the employment rate of women and kindergarten enrollment of children in South Korea is not directly proportional. According to an analysis released [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey found that 33.5 percent of infants aged 0 to 5 had to wait before finding a spot at a daycare center or kindergarten. According to a survey conducted by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education and released Wednesday, 33.5 percent of those surveyed had experience waiting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A kindergarten building in southern Seoul has tilted after a retaining wall at a nearby construction site collapsed, authorities said Friday. No one was injured. The four-story Sangdo Public Kindergarten, located in the southern district of Dongjak, lent at about 10 degrees as the wall designed to prevent subsidence [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A kindergarten director in Seoul is facing criticism after having told multiple female teachers not to get pregnant at the same time to avoid interfering with class schedules. The controversial comment was brought up by the Seoul government’s human rights committee at a meeting held on Friday, during which [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As the birth rate in South Korea has plummeted to a record low level, the number of privately-owned kindergartens closing due to a shortage of students is on the rise. In the past two years, the number of family child care centers, privately owned small-scale kindergartens with fewer than [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Halloween has become exceedingly popular in Korea over the past few years. Despite the holiday being mainly American, or Western, seeing young adults in costumes strolling the streets on the night of October 31 is no longer an unfamiliar sight. However, the event has even spread its influence to [...]
CHUNGJU, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – At a popular nursery school, parents waited quietly as a lottery to determine which children would enter kicked off. You could cut the tension with a knife. In the end, only 25 children were selected to enter the class for five-year-olds, even though 118 applied. The 93 parents whose children [...]