SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 9 percent of middle and high school students in South Korea had worked at a part-time job. Most had worked at restaurants or wedding halls. The average hourly pay was 7,785 won (US$6.69), rising over the past few years, while fewer middle and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean education institutions are scrambling to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology in classrooms across the country. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) announced that it is developing a curriculum for a new course on AI technology, which will soon be provided as an optional course for high [...]
CHUNCHEON, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon in Gangwon Province has been making progress by fixing bicycles left unattended in public places and providing them as a means of transportation for young people. The city has been working on a project to donate its neglected bicycles since 2013. The project involves collecting bicycles left unattended [...]
SUWON, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Students living in Gyeonggi Province will soon be served cafeteria-style school meals, where they can choose according to their preferences, rather than a single option. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (GPOE) announced on Thursday that it has decided to push for a “cafeteria-like school meal plan” that guarantees [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will be introducing obesity prevention program at schools, teaming up with three institutions to begin test driving the program this month. The Seoul Health Promotion School Program educates students on the principles of a healthy diet while lifting the educational burden from parents and teachers. [...]
BANGKOK, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The fever for learning Korean is steadily spreading among Thai students, as the number of secondary schools teaching Korean as a second foreign language in Thailand is expected to swell to 130 this year, officials said Tuesday. The Korean Education Center in Thailand said as many as 130 middle [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean students’ academic abilities have been deteriorating in recent years, a government report said Thursday. According to the report issued by the Ministry of Education, more than one in 10 middle and high school students failed to meet the basic academic standards in mathematics as of last [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The obesity rate for young South Korean students swelled to 25 percent last year from 21.2 percent in 2014, marking the fifth straight annual increase, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. The overall health statistics of elementary, middle and high school students were also found to have deteriorated in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A student club for startups at Seoul National University (SNU), the nation’s top-ranked school, brought controversy after attempting to sell letters of encouragement written by SNU students to high school seniors and their parents. The club posted an article on social networks on Sunday “offering” to sell letters of encouragement [...]
JEONJU, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Students are divided over a recent male beauty contest held at a spring camp at a college in North Jeolla Province. Some argue that the event was held to sexually objectify male students, while others claim that it was a simple friendship-building exercise without any unfair intentions. More than [...]