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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Children and teenagers in South Korea are suffering from sleep deprivation, and their level of happiness is also the lowest among other developed countries. According to a report released Tuesday by Statistics Korea, the average daily sleep time for children and teenagers was 7.3 hours as of last year. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Students who started their undergraduate degree in 1999 consist mainly of those born in the 1980s. while undergrads who started university in 2019 were born in 2000s. How different are the views of college life between these two generations? Daehak Naeil, a weekly magazine for college students, surveyed 150 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy looms over university authorities requiring students to obtain ‘pre-authorization’ for putting up posters on university campuses or taking them down arbitrarily. Recently, students at Dongduk Women’s University put up posters throughout the campus criticizing professors and instructors who made sexist remarks, as well as the school’s ‘repression of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The influence of vegan students is beginning to manifest itself at university snack distributing events hosted by student councils and other organizations for those preparing for their final exams. Ewha Womans University’s student council prepared and provided 240 servings of almond milk and glucose candies without dairy products on Friday in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey by the government showed that career aspirations among elementary school students differed based on gender. The Ministry of Education conducted a survey of 24,000 elementary, middle, and high school students inquiring about preferred career aspirations, in which athletes, teachers and YouTube creators were most popular. From [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to introduce a new program to gather between three and five high schools in one area to run them as a single educational institution similar to a university. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) announced on Monday that it will begin testing the [...]
MUAN, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Edu Taxi” system, first introduced by the Jeollanamdo Office of Education, is expected to spread across the country. The education office in South Jeolla Province will introduce the current status of the Edu Taxi operation at a consultative meeting of city and provincial education office officials hosted by [...]