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 [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government, along with the King Sejong Institute Foundation, announced that it will provide a free online Korean language education platform, the Seoul City Online King Sejong Institute, for foreigners for six months starting on July 1. The King Sejong Institute Foundation is a public subsidiary of [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has designated 23 more state-funded Korean language institutes abroad this year, the culture ministry said Thursday, as part of efforts to help more foreigners learn the Korean language and culture. The 23 new King Sejong Institutes will be located in 19 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe, [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Vietnam said Thursday it had hosted its first Korean speaking competition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of South Korea-Vietnam relations this year. Among the participants were students from 27 universities, 12 King Sejong institutes and 11 middle and high schools in Vietnam. Under the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In a secondary language test included in Thailand’s college entrance examinations, the number of applicants being tested for the Korean language has surpassed those being tested for Japanese for the very first time. The Korean Education Center in Thailand reported that, among 21,485 applicants who chose to take the [...]