SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — COVID-19 is speeding up the era of digital public education, as unexpectedly as it seems, while taking a toll on offline education. Since April of last year, following the first wave of the pandemic across the country, education authorities have scrambled to set up digital infrastructure across all schools. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — High school students in South Korea will be given the choice to take artificial intelligence classes as early as the second semester of next year, according to the education ministry on Monday. In an administrative notice, the education ministry announced its plans to introduce two artificial intelligence (AI) courses [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a report released by Statistics Korea on Tuesday, government support for public education reached 53 trillion won (US$47.2 billion) in 2015, up 2.8 percent from the previous year. The support for public education was targeted to young children aged 6 to 17. However, the support for public [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that three out of ten international school-aged children (primary & secondary) residing in Korea struggle to receive the full benefits of the Korean public education system. Some of these children even give up on schooling and turn to labor instead. According to the Ansan [...]
![[Quote] Korea’s Private Ed Spending Highest among OECD Nations…Piketty](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thomas-Piketty--800x441.jpg "[Quote] Korea’s Private Ed Spending Highest among OECD Nations…Piketty")
“Korea is one of the countries among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development members with the highest private education spending. As a way to relieve the problem of income inequality, you should consider raising the investment on public education.” “It is important to strengthen the public education system to make sure everyone in society [...]