INCHEON, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – In a modest classroom in Incheon’s Bupyeong District, a teacher peered at a monitor, offering pronunciation tips to a group of high school seniors located nearly 200 kilometers away on Baengnyeong Island. The students, otherwise unable to access a Japanese language class due to teacher shortages, followed intently from their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will decide whether to stick to in-person classes or switch to remote learning depending on their own virus situations starting in the upcoming semester, the education ministry said Monday. Under a new COVID-19 response plan to be effective for the new semester in March, schools will be given [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, high schoolers in their second year of remote schooling are considering dropping out of school to opt for a general equivalency diploma. The introduction of remote schooling has led to a deteriorating sense of concentration among students and limited engagement with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools in the capital area will resume remote learning this week as part of a government campaign aimed at stemming the fast spread of the coronavirus, officials said Sunday. Under the latest rules, schools in the capital area and overly crowded schools in other parts of the country will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With remote lectures becoming more common in COVID-19 era, an increasing number of universities are furnishing themselves with a variety of broadcasting equipment and large-sized monitors for online lectures and meetings. At Soongsil University, a large-sized curved screen 10 meters wide and 1.5 meters tall is installed on the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Friday said it has signed a partnership with South Korea’s top internet portal operator Naver Corp. to enter the remote learning service business amid the pandemic. Under the deal, the two sides will develop a notebook dedicated to Naver’s online education platform Whale Space. Tentatively [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major telecom companies are beefing up their education content to ride on a trend of remote learning amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, industry insiders said Saturday, as they release services using advanced IT solutions. The resurgence of COVID-19 has forced schools to suspend in-person classes. In the [...]