SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – With the world’s lowest birthrate leading to a rapidly shrinking school-age population in South Korea, the government plans to curtail admissions to colleges of education that train new teachers, following earlier moves to scale back the hiring of instructors. The adjustment comes amid concerns over a worsening imbalance between dwindling [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced on Tuesday that it will provide free breakfast to students participating in its “Running Again in the Morning Season 2.0″ exercise program. Launched in October last year, the morning exercise initiative aims to aid students’ physical and mental recovery in the post-COVID era. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis of the 2024 academic year’s regular admissions by Jongno Academy revealed that over 30% of universities recorded a competition rate of less than 3 to 1, indicating an admissions rate below the required threshold. The study analyzed 188 universities nationwide, finding an average competition rate of 4.67 [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In response to the decreasing student population in South Korea, local education offices are set to actively recruit international students. The Ministry of Education announced on January 9 that nine education offices, including Gwangju, North Gyeongsang Province, Daegu, Busan, Seoul, Incheon, South Jeolla Province, South Chungcheong Province, and North Chungcheong [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The spread of the new omicron COVID-19 variant has brought back the mandatory 10-day quarantine for all travelers from overseas, surprising students studying abroad and businesspeople. “My younger sister is about to graduate, and it’ll become harder for her to visit South Korea after she gets a job overseas. [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — On the banks of the Han River, the lifeline of Seoul, a middle-aged woman clung to a portrait of a young man and wept uncontrollably. “This ‘ajumma’ will reveal (the truth) no matter what,” she said, using the Korean term for a married and typically older woman. “Poor Jeong-min,” [...]
HOENGSEONG, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jae-yeon, the principal of Anheung Elementary School in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province, stepped onto the school’s sports field on Tuesday morning as the new semester began. He was to greet Kim Seo-ah, a 7-year-old girl who came holding her grandmother’s hand to begin her first day as the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A high school student has made headlines for donating 10 million won (US $8,435) to the ROK Navy’s “Love for the Navy Foundation,” asking the Navy to help the bereaved families of the victims of the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan in 2010. According to the Navy on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Petitions to the Blue House have been serving as an active communication channel between the public and the highest corridors of power since President Moon Jae-in took office last year. On May 14, the Blue House and National Information Society Agency (NIA) disclosed the big data analysis result of over 160,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea dropped in talent competitiveness for the second consecutive year in 2016, falling especially behind in motivating its workers, a report from the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) showed Sunday. The country ranked 39th out of 63 surveyed countries in the IMD World Talent Report 2017, [...]