CHANGWON, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Normally this time of the year, schools throughout the country are filled with giggles and laughter as students prepare gifts, write thank-you letters and sometimes scheme mischievous-yet-endearing pranks to surprise and thank their teachers for their hard work. This year’s Teacher’s Day, which falls on Friday, is instead marked [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — All elementary, middle and high school students in South Korea have been attending remote classes since Tuesday. In a similar situation, countries around the world are also adopting remote education-based measures amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation and the Korean Educational Development Institute [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More elementary school students in South Korea started the spring semester with online classes Monday amid lingering concerns about cluster infections of the new coronavirus. The move marks the full opening of the new school year with remote learning for about 5.4 million elementary, middle and high school students [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An additional 3.12 million elementary and secondary students began the spring semester Thursday by participating in online classes amid the nationwide battle against the coronavirus, but the unprecedented tele-education was marred by network access problems at many places. Under the government’s three-step plan, first and second graders at middle [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Gu Ja-ho began his first day of school as a middle school senior on Thursday — at home. He sat in front of a desktop at his home in the central Seoul neighborhood of Jongno at 8:20 a.m. as his classmates joined him online for an introductory class on remote [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Are South Korean schools and students ready for online classes? The question is drawing rising public attention as elementary and secondary schools nationwide were asked by the government on Tuesday to begin the spring semester with online classes, in steps starting April 9, to prevent classroom infections of the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it will begin the new school year on April 9 with online classes for middle and high school senior students following repeated delays due to the novel coronavirus. The unprecedented move to introduce online classes at elementary, middle and high schools nationwide will be carried [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said Wednesday it is considering introducing online classes nationwide, if the ongoing spread of the coronavirus outbreak shows little sign of letting up or students and faculty members get infected. However, the education community is voicing concern that local school sites do not appropriate systems [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, offline lectures in the education industry are rapidly being replaced by online lectures. Online education company Hunet Co. reported that the number of students visiting its online classes more than tripled this month compared to the same period a year earlier. [...]