SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four young South Korean students has a problem with obesity, the Ministry of Education said Friday, calling for increased efforts to improve the health of young people. The ministry released data on student obesity as Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae presided over a meeting of Cabinet ministers in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Fewer young students in South Korea perceive North Korea as an enemy than a year ago, while a larger number of them regard the North as a cooperative partner, a poll showed Tuesday. In the poll of 82,947 elementary, middle and high school students by the education and unification [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean teenager recently tweeted about her shocking experience at a beach where she planned to watch the sunrise on New Year’s Day. In the tweet, she said she was kicked out of two jimjilbangs, or Korean saunas, even though she submitted letters of permission from her parents, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle schools and high schools in Seoul are now entering a round of discussions to decide whether to maintain or abolish school uniforms. The Seoul Office of Education asked all middle and high schools on Wednesday to publicize the discussion about school uniforms. Schools will discuss a variety of [...]
MUAN, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeollanamdo (South Jeolla Province) Office of Education announced Friday that from March, students living in remote areas will be given free taxi rides to and from school. The so-called ‘Edu Taxi’ service is intended for students living in rural areas who are unable to use public transportation and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Physical activity programs will be expanded for first and second grade elementary school students in South Korea. Survival swimming courses will also be expanded according to local conditions. The Ministry of Education announced a master plan on Wednesday which includes the objective of developing various physical activity programs for [...]
GANGNEUNG/SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Police concluded Wednesday that the three high school students found dead in a guesthouse in Gangneung were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. Police announced the official result of their investigation into the deadly incident that also left seven others unconscious. Two of them have recovered consciousness following hours of [...]
GANGNEUNG, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Three senior high school students were found dead and seven others unconscious at a pension in the northeastern province of Gangwon, possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning caused by inadequate ventilation, local police and firefighters said Tuesday. The owner of the pension, located in the city of Gangneung on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Two Korean college students have been instrumental in identifying historical inaccuracies regarding the world’s oldest extant movable metal print book, Jikji, on online websites, and having them corrected. Oh Yu-jin, a 20-year-old college freshmen studying Korean folklore at Andong National University, discovered that the Japanese website Window to World [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of students victimized by school violence in Seoul has increased 24.5 percent from a year earlier to 11,425 this year, according to a survey released Wednesday. More than 92 percent of the entire 700,343 students, ranging from fourth graders at elementary schools through senior high schoolers, took [...]