ANSAN, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “Please yield to students in the school zone.” “No illegal parking! Please help the students feel safe in the school zone.” These are some of the slogans featured on stickers being posted on illegally parked cars in school zones in the city of Ansan in Gyeonggi Province. Ansan, in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul National University (SNU) has decided not to send out a report card to students for the first time since the foundation of the university, starting from the first semester of this year. Without the paper report card, students can check their scores electronically through the SNU portal site [...]
GURI, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Guri in Gyeonggi Province said Tuesday that it has produced 520 bag covers for students and delivered them to first- and second-graders at three elementary schools. Following a similar initiative at an elementary school on a trial basis last year in which parents and teachers responded [...]
GWANGJU, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Short and tight school uniform skirts and pants are gradually disappearing. This is due to efforts made by education authorities and schools to provide students with convenience and comfort. In Gwangju, 71 out of 91 middle schools and 22 out of 62 high schools have changed the design of [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, male students have better grades in mathematics than females. Taking out the environmental factor, however, gender differences disappear, according to a recent study. Lim Seul-ki, a PhD candidate at Sogang University and Asst. Prof. Lee Soo-hyung argued in a recent paper that South [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean middle school students think they know a lot about sex. But in reality, they’re lacking when it comes to sex-related knowledge. According to a survey conducted by the Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI), middle school students who reported that they know an ample amount of sex knowledge accounted [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The argument that school environments in areas where immigrants are concentrated are worse than in other areas has been met with a strong disagreement on the grounds that there is little evidence to support such a hypothesis. Yang Kyung-eun, an assistant professor of social welfare at Sungkonghoe University, made [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sixteen percent of young South Korean students are at risk of smartphone or Internet addiction, a poll released by the government said Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,286,567 fourth, seventh and 10th graders by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 206,102 students, or 16 percent, were found [...]
GWANGJU, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Students in the city of Gwangju will now be required to take courses on labor rights each year. The Gwangju Metropolitan Council passed legislation on Wednesday requiring all students in Gwangju to take courses on labor rights. Schools that currently provide optional courses on labor rights, and other specially [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly will push for the establishment of regulations to guarantee longer “playtime” by adjusting the break times of kindergartens and elementary schools. Kim Kyung-hee, a member of the Assembly Committee on Education announced on Thursday that the assembly will propose an ordinance at the council’s interim [...]