SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a prestigious mathematics academy in Seoul’s affluent Daechi-dong district, known as South Korea’s “education capital,” an admission question for elementary students recently read: “How many times does the digit ’1′ appear in the sum of the series 9+99+999+…+99999999999999999999 (twenty 9s)?” This was part of the academy’s notoriously difficult [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) will come up with measures to tackle widespread irregularities in private kindergartens next week, a party official said Tuesday. They plan to hold a closed-door meeting Sunday amid growing public uproar sparked by revelations of preschool owners’ corruption by a lawmaker [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education has backtracked on an English education ban in preschools following mounting criticism. The education ministry has withdrawn its decision to ban after-school English classes in nursery schools only three weeks after the announcement, with the proposed ban now up in the air. Though new standards for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean parents are infamous for their zealous desire to educate their young. But a recent study from the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education revealed that private education in Korea is prevalent even among preschoolers aged five and lower, despite concerns that strenuous studies at an early age [...]