SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students learning the Korean language outside the Korean Peninsula swelled by over 50,000 from 2011-2016 to top 115,000, government data showed Friday. A total of 1,309 elementary and secondary schools in 27 foreign countries were operating Korean language courses as of 2016, up 88.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The government said Wednesday that it will set up overseas institutes that offer foreigners Korean language courses and Korean culture activities at six universities in six additional countries. The six universities, designated as the new operators of the King Sejong Institute, are Yancheng Teachers University in China’s Jiangsu Province, [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Wongsarot Auratsa, a 77-year-old Thai woman, recently became the oldest Thai candidate to take the Korean language proficiency exam, TOPIK. Although Mrs. Auratsa failed to pass the test, on March 19, she was close, according to the Korean Education Center in Thailand. Mrs. Auratsa lives with her son [...]
BANGKOK, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s oldest and one of its most respected higher education institutes, will open a Korean language major for undergraduate students next year, the Korea Education Institution said Thursday. The university revealed a plan to set up the major on Wednesday when it held a Korea festival as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korean language proficiency test for foreign students and expatriates is set to be administered in over 70 countries worldwide next year, Seoul’s education ministry said Thursday. According to the National Institute for International Education, the test’s administrator, the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) will be hosted [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign students studying in South Korea topped the 120,000-mark for the first time last month, the justice ministry said Friday. It was tallied at 122,082 as of the end of September, up 3.8 percent from the previous month and up 19.6 percent from a year earlier. [...]
CAIRO, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of a Korean language major has taken place in a local university in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan. The event was held at Aswan University on Wednesday, with some 150 students, parents, Korean officials and university staff in attendance, said the Korea International Cooperation Agency [...]
BANGKOK, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Thailand announced on July 8 that the Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) decided to include Korean as one of the second languages on the Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT), which is a college entrance exam. The Ministry of Education [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – About one-third of the foreign students studying in Korea consider “seniority-based” culture hard to accept. Yoo Hyun-kyung, the director of Yonsei University’s Korean Language Institute, presented the results of a study entitled “Efficient Management of Foreign Students” during the Korean Language Institute Council’s 10th anniversary workshop, which was held on [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 12, (Korea Bizwire) – Hallyu or Korean Wave has been an unprecedented heat and it continues to flourish in Malaysia. With these phenomenon, now there have been a growing demand for the Korean language among Malaysians, especially who love Korean wave & culture. Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) & King Sejong institute [...]