SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — While more students in Seoul have adjusted to online classes than last year, even more of them are taking private classes. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education conducted a survey of 891 parents of students at elementary, middle, and high schools in the city, in which a higher number [...]
CHUNCHEON, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced schools into remote learning, a recent study showed that the academic performance of students at schools that have more attendance days deteriorated less. The Gangwon-do Education & Science Research Institute analyzed the second-semester academic performance (from 2018 to 2020) [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Most South Korean pupils will be able to return to their classrooms full-time come fall, the Ministry of Education announced Sunday, inching toward a return to the pre-pandemic normal amid more vaccinations and growing concerns over the effects on children from a yearlong pandemic. The plan was made in [...]
SEJONG, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary school students are taking up the challenge to acquire driver’s licenses to ride bicycles more safely. A total of 49 students from Saetteum Elementary School in the central administrative city of Sejong began taking ‘bicycle license tests’ at school last week. For student safety, the school began to [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As public schools continue to offer remote classes, Seoul’s education authorities are offering vouchers to prevent children from skipping meals and buy food from local convenience stores. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Monday that it will team up with the Seoul Metropolitan Government, its 25 districts, and [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost nine in 10 young students in South Korea prefer in-person classes to online ones, despite risks of coronavirus infections, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey on 685 elementary, middle and high school students conducted from April 25 to Monday by a local teachers’ group, 87.1 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this month, public school students in Seoul will be served lunch with vegetables and soup only, excluding meat, twice a month. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Thursday that it will begin operation of a ‘GREEN lunch day’ policy that obligates all schools to provide vegetarian meals [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of books borrowed by students from university libraries plunged last year. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service reported that each college student borrowed an average of four books at university libraries last year, a significant drop from the average of 8.3 [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With online classes becoming commonplace due to the spread of the coronavirus, South Korean students are using computers more often and reading less. The state-run Korea Information Society Development Institute analyzed patterns of media use for students between 8 and 18 years of age during online classes. The analysis [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite strong opposition from some conservative groups, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education has stipulated the protection of sexual minority rights in the student rights plan, the first in its history, that it unveiled on Thursday. In accordance with the Seoul Metropolitan Student Human Rights Ordinance, the student human [...]