SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Friday made a last-minute appeal for medical professors not to resign en masse in support of a prolonged walkout by junior doctors, as their threat to resign is expected to further disrupt services at major hospitals. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the dwindling number of young professors, the average age of university professors is on the rise, a report showed Monday. According to the National Research Foundation, there were 73,948 faculty members at four-year colleges in South Korea as of 2021. Sorted by age, 16,247 professors were over 60 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The pomp and circumstance of retirement ceremonies for university professors has changed significantly following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Many schools have either skipped ceremonies or held them online. It has become an even rarer sight for retiring professors to gather students to publish thesis compilations before they [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to interaction between students and teachers, students showed satisfaction when interacting with their teacher about the class. On the other hand, teachers showed satisfaction when communicating with students about careers. According to an analysis released by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), the level of interaction [...]
POHANG, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of engineers from Pohang University of Science and Technology has successfully developed so-called “bio-blood-vessels” using material extracted from the human body as a template for 3D printing. The team found that its printed blood vessels exhibited no problems in performing their desired function when implanted. The vessels [...]