SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean universities are positively responding to the demand for partial tuition refunds to compensate students for disrupted learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Korea Maritime & Ocean University recently became the first school in the southern port city of Busan to decide to offer refunds. [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers who stay up late at night are much more likely to suffer from depression compared to early birds, according to a recent study. Night owl refers to those who go to bed late and wake up late, while early birds prefer getting up and going to bed early. [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy has erupted after a college student wrote a letter in his own blood, asking his university to refund school tuition and hold final examinations online amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, a post with the title, “We need a letter written in blood to get our tuition back?” [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s education ministry on Thursday urged universities and students to mutually resolve the latter’s growing call for tuition refunds amid the new coronavirus pandemic. “(The ministry) feels regretful that students cannot attend in-person classes due to the new coronavirus. (It) also sympathizes with universities whose budgets have been [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Upper elementary students turned out to have the highest satisfaction with online schooling, while high school students feel the most uncomfortable, a recent survey showed. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Korean schools offered classes online for the first time in their history. Educational content firm SchoolJam conducted [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the final batch of students returning to classes Monday, South Korea completed its phased school reopening scheme despite growing anxiety over a second wave of new coronavirus infections in Seoul and adjacent cities. About 1.35 million more students — in the first grade of middle school and the [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc. said Sunday it has transported over 200 South Korean students to Vietnam as the Southeast Asian country issued a one-off permit for the transportation. Asiana flight OZ733 left Incheon International Airport at 9:20 a.m. Sunday with 218 Korean students on board and arrived at Noi Bai [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of middle and high school students have either played games or watched YouTube videos during online classes. The Institute for Progressive Education conducted a survey of 560 elementary school students, 844 middle and high school students, 785 teachers, and 696 parents from May 20 to [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean students returned to classrooms on Wednesday as part of the government’s phased reopening plan, but worries linger over the continued spread of the new coronavirus. The reopening comes at a time when the country is wrestling with a spike in infections traced to small Protestant churches [...]
CHEONGJU, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A homemaker (38) living in Cheongju, 140 kilometers south of Seoul, feels uncomfortable whenever the time comes for her daughter – a second grade elementary school student – to go to school. She always has to nag at her daughter not to take off her mask in school. In [...]