SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics marked Korea’s Hangeul Day with a traveling art exhibition across major U.S. universities, highlighting the beauty and cultural value of the Korean alphabet through a collaboration with the New York Korean Cultural Center and renowned installation artist Kang Ik-joong. The company said Thursday that the “Hangeul Truck” project [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In movie theaters across North America, audiences recently sang in unison — in Korean. The occasion was a sing-along screening of K-Pop Demon Hunters, the Netflix animated hit whose theme song “Golden” has become an anthem for fans of K-culture. For many, the moment marked how far the Korean [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In a continued push to globalize its language and culture, South Korea is adding 11 new King Sejong Institutes to its growing international network of Korean language centers, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced Monday. These newly designated centers—named after the 15th-century monarch who created the Korean [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will seek to revitalize Korean language education in foreign elementary and middle schools, the Ministry of Education said Monday, amid growing overseas interest in Korean after author Han Kang’s recent Nobel Prize in literature award. To that end, it will establish a new specialized organization to devise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of every 10 foreigners who entered South Korea on a language study visa turned into illegal immigrants, data showed Tuesday. Out of the total 64,904 foreigners staying in South Korea as of June after entering the country on the D-4 General Trainee Visa, 25,898, or 39.9 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Monday unveiled a plan to further enhance its global infrastructure and networks for Korean language education, including increasing the number of overseas outlets of the government-run King Sejong Institute brand to 350 by 2027. The announcement was made during the World Korean Educator Conference 2023 that [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Led by the popularity of K-pop and K-dramas, learning the Korean language is rising as a new trend in France. The Ministry of Education said that the number of elementary, middle and high schools in France offering Korean classes jumped from 17 schools in 2018 to 60 schools last [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners living in and out of South Korea competed in an offline Korean speaking contest that was held for the first time in three years at Kyunghee University on Thursday. A total of 16 finalists from 14 different countries participated in the 24th World Korean Language Speech Contest for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — India opened up its second Korean language master’s program with the Korean wave sweeping the globe. Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi recently held a faculty meeting to introduce the master’s program in the Korean language. The university has selected 25 new students for the Korean language master’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center, opened its second school in Mexico on Tuesday (local time) in response to rising demand for Korean language education amidst the Korean wave. The Korean Cultural Center in Mexico held an opening ceremony for the new King Sejong Institute [...]