SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said Wednesday it has asked a local high school to lift a ban on the use of mobile phones by students in school. The state human rights watchdog said the ban on the use of mobile phones at the high school, [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from next year, the city of Busan will distribute smart devices for free on a one on one basis to all of the city’s middle and high school students and elementary students above fourth grade. The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education said Monday that it will distribute [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — University students have a substantial difference in favorite foods by gender — female students showed more preference for dairy products and sugary foods, while male students ate seaweed and greasy foods more frequently, a survey said Thursday. A research team led by Song Kyung-hee, a food and nutrition professor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education and the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said Tuesday that they will jointly launch a new service using artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend books on the basis of an analysis of students’ reading history and activities. The ‘Book Fruit’ service employs an AI recommendation [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of high schoolers have been lauded for building a self-driving vehicle that is now being used to carry waste at school. A software club at Gwangdeok High School in the southwestern city of Gwangju, consisting of 18 student members from the 9th to 12th grades, recently built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis showed that school violence is becoming less physical. One factor behind this is the difficulty in entering into face-to-face contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data that Rep. Lee Tan-hee of the Democratic Party received from the National Police Agency, the number of ‘assault [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The total number of students in kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools in South Korea has fallen below 6 million for the first time, government data showed Thursday, amid the nation’s declining birthrate. According to data from the Ministry of Education, there were 5,957,087 students enrolled in kindergartens [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The so-called “corona blues,” or depressive symptoms arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, are more prevalent among students from low-income households. The Seoul Education Research and Information Institute conducted a survey of 19,884 students from elementary, middle, and high schools in the region, asking them about the difficulties they have [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Several girls’ middle and high schools in Seoul have deleted school provisions restricting the color of undergarments that the students can wear. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education carried out special consultations with 31 girls’ middle and high schools with similar rules on undergarments, six of which decided to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American students in the U.S. have published a book about Korean folklore in the English language. Eleven students from Hwarang Youth Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization based in California, translated and published Korean fables to share the tradition and spirit of the Korean people with children from around [...]