SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — All elementary, middle, and high schools in South Korea began the school year online Tuesday after a series of delays resulting from the coronavirus outbreak. Parents have expressed worry about the impact of the two-month break on their children’s education. The Korea Education and Research Information Service, a public [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Two consecutive delays of the new school year following the coronavirus outbreak has prevented more than 200 cases of infection, a new study found. The government made a series of delays for the new school year, first from March 2 to March 9, then to March 23. The school [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus outbreak has postponed the new school year by more than a month, teachers are coming up with various ways to meet with their students. To ensure social distancing, teachers are meeting with each of their students separately. Park Sam-won, a teacher at Jeonggwang Middle School in [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the coronavirus outbreak, parents are scrambling over protective masks as the first day of the new school year approaches on March 23. Schools in North Chungcheong Province, for instance, have 460,000 protective masks in stock, which is the minimum amount required in accordance with quarantine standards. The masks [...]