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 [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe Edu, an affiliate of K-pop powerhouse Hybe, will release new Korean language learning materials for foreign fans of popular girl group BLACKPINK, the company said Wednesday. The release of the new learning materials, titled “BLACKPINK in Your Korean,” that makes use of the group’s intellectual property is due [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in Iran hosted the 2021 coursework completion ceremony for students at the King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center. Twenty-six students from the advanced course participated in the offline ceremony. They are Korean language ‘experts’ that have completed the entire eight-semester course on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-run Korean language education foundation, has announced plans to develop and distribute braille and sound books for foreigners with visual disabilities to learn the language. The braille book was made using a mixture of braille and mute letters, aimed at making it accessible [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean language courses are spreading throughout Argentina in the pandemic era driven by the so-called ‘Korean Wave’. The Korean Cultural Center in Argentina said that the number of Korean language courses, which stood at eight classes in 2019, jumped to 30 in 2020 and 66 in 2021, soaring more [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) will include a speaking section later next year for the first time. The Ministry of Education announced plans for a new Korean proficiency test for foreigners and expatriates on Thursday. Next year’s examinations will be held six times in total, three of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has overturned two lower court rulings that a foreigner who divorced after marrying a Korean cannot have parental rights and the right to child custody due to a lack of communication skills in Korean language. In litigation filed by a Vietnamese woman who divorced after marrying [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research lab said Wednesday that it has developed a new technology that can speak to artificial intelligence (AI) and learn the Korean language, and transferred it to a language education curriculum developer. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)’s conversation-based language education system can converse with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The King Sejong Institute Foundation, a state-run Korean language education foundation, is airing a program in Vietnam, created jointly with Vietnam Television (VTV)’s Centre for Educational Programme Production. It is the first time for Vietnam’s public broadcaster to create a program about the Korean language. Titled “Let’s Speak Korean,” [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The 23rd World Korean Language Speech Contest for Foreigners, held online Thursday for the very first time, was a stage for one-of-a-kind contestants. Zeynep Ben Hamza, a 21-year-old contestant from Tunisia and the winner of a Korean speech contest held at the Korean embassy in Tunisia, is a speaker [...]