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 [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean students’ spending on private education spiked to a 10-year high in 2019, data from the Ministry of Education and Statistics Korea showed Tuesday, reflecting undiminished parental enthusiasm for their children’s academic achievements. Elementary, middle and high school students spent 20.99 trillion won (US$17.6 billion) on private [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Education authorities of South Korea and China agreed to advise their students against returning to school in the other country as part of their cooperation to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Seoul officials said Friday. The move comes as the spread of the virus is showing little [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, offline lectures in the education industry are rapidly being replaced by online lectures. Online education company Hunet Co. reported that the number of students visiting its online classes more than tripled this month compared to the same period a year earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With the novel coronavirus outbreak spreading rapidly in South Korea, a new website and application CoronaNOW (https://coronanow.kr) are receiving high attention. CoronaNOW provides information about the current status of infections in South Korea through a comprehensive situation board based on data provided by the Korea Centers for Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Nowon District in Seoul will pursue a “room-sharing” project in which seniors and college students in the region share residential spaces to mark the new semester. The new housing-sharing project will involve seniors with additional space in their residence providing rooms for college students at a low cost and students in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About one in three South Korean students sees the Korean Peninsula as not peaceful, a government poll showed Tuesday, apparently reflecting chilled inter-Korean relations and stalemated denuclearization talks. According to the survey of 66,042 students at 598 elementary, middle and high schools across the country during the October-November period [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Class of 2024 are expecting a rather quiet school year as universities are cancelling various events intended to welcome the new students following the coronavirus outbreak. Graduation ceremonies at most high schools have either been delayed, or carried out in classrooms, instead of outdoors. University orientation sessions, enrollment [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one out of every 100 elementary and secondary students in South Korea suffered some form of abuse at school last year, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the poll of about 130,000 students from fourth to 11th grades conducted by the Ministry of Education last September, [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Educational authorities will make sure high school students can receive education about how to exercise their rights as democratic citizens after the country’s minimum voting age was lowered to 18 last month, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae has said. “The voting age reduction is meaningful, and we will provide democratic [...]