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 [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that the most frequently used Korean term among foreign students of the Korean language was ‘saram’, the Korean word for person. The National Institute of Korean Language analysed data related to the Korean terms being used by foreigners studying the Korean language, which showed that [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has designated 26 new state-funded Korean language institutes abroad, the culture ministry said Wednesday, as part of efforts to help more people learn about the Korean culture and language. The 26 new institutes are located in 18 countries, including Bolivia, Morocco, Nepal, Slovenia and Tanzania, where such [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Sri Lanka has decided to adopt the Korean language as a subject for the country’s college entrance exams, a South Korean embassy there said Tuesday. According to the embassy, the Sri Lankan government recently added Korean to the list of foreign languages taught in the Advanced Level curriculum, as [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of schools in India are introducing Korean as a regular course. The Korean Cultural Centre India reported that Greenway Modern School and 11 other schools in New Delhi began teaching the Korean language this semester to elementary and middle school students. What began with three schools [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Institute of the Korean Language said Tuesday that it had unveiled eight kinds of new Korean language datasets, essential learning data for artificial intelligence (AI) to improve Korean language processing capability through its website. In August 2020, the institute released Korean language corpus for AI learning on [...]
SEJONG, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry said Sunday that it has nearly doubled its budget for Korean language education overseas this year amid growing demand for Korean as a second language thanks to the global popularity of K-pop and other Korean cultural content. According to the education ministry’s 2021 plan, the country [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Foundation has opened a new Korean language course at an university in Britain that uses the latest curriculum “Learn Korean with BTS” gaining massive popularity. The University of Sheffield’s Korean language course boasts 40 years of history. There are currently 130 students enrolled in the Korean language [...]