SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans attending universities in Northeast China are giving up their enrollment after being denied entry to the country for two years. The South Korean Consulate General in Shenyang and an association of Korean students from Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in China said that local universities in these [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that ethnic Korean high school and university students in Japan regularly experience discrimination in everyday life simply because they are South or North Korean. The Korean Scholarship Foundation, affiliated with the Korean Residents Union in Japan, conducted a survey of 1,030 high school and university [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean college students will set out on a trans-American bicycle ride this week, seeking to boost global awareness of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The students — 25-year-old Baek Hyun-jae and 22-year-old Lee Ho-jun — recently arrived in [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean children and adolescents scored the lowest in their self-reported sense of happiness as measured by the ‘Better Life’ index from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). On May 2, Professor Yoo Shik Yum’s society improvement research laboratory at Yonsei University presented a report titled “2016 8th [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of young South Koreans studying abroad plunged by a third over eight years, official data showed Tuesday, apparently thanks to the nation’s improved English education system. In 2014, 10,907 students from primary and secondary schools left the country to study abroad, down 12 percent from 12,374 the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -It turns out that high school seniors preparing for college entrance exams are severely sleep-deprived. Toz, a business that rents meeting rooms, conducted a survey on 1,800 high school seniors who used their study center. Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents slept five to six hours a night, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Among ten university students, as many as three are considering plastic surgeries to land jobs, especially on their eyes and teeth. According to a survey conducted by Career, a job portal, on their concern on “plastic surgery for jobs” asking 505 university students, 30.5 percent said that [...]