SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education will provide a new opportunity for students to explore careers in new industries, including aerospace and artificial intelligence, from their classrooms. The ministry said Wednesday it will host an online career class with experts representing various new industry sectors for four months from next week [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the return to in-person classes, violence in schools has increased this year, a government survey showed Tuesday. In the survey by the education ministry, 1.7 percent of students said they suffered violence in schools in 2022, up 0.6 percentage points from last year, when most schools shifted classes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Exchange students in the U.S. and their parents are facing growing concerns as the won-dollar exchange rate continues to climb. “My parents used to send me 1.5 million won (US$1,120) every month as a living stipend last year. Now, with the higher exchange rate, they’re sending me another 300,000 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenagers regard one’s ability as the most important criterion for distributing rewards, a study indicated Thursday. The report published by the Korea Educational Development Institute surveyed about 500 students from a total of three middle and high schools about their perception of fair distribution. They were presented with various [...]
GWANGJU, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Two high school students in the southwestern city of Gwangju are under investigation after being caught hacking into their teachers’ notebook computers to steal exam papers, police and municipal education officials said Wednesday. The two unnamed second-year students of Daedong High School in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Limiting boarding school students from going outside of campus even during weekends infringes upon their rights to freedom of movement, the state rights watchdog said Friday. A high school student, whose name was withheld, filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, claiming the boarding school’s [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — About 8 out of 10 middle and high school students believe that difficult mathematics exams produce students who ultimately decide to give up studying math, a poll showed Tuesday. According to a survey conducted jointly by Rep. Kang Deuk-koo of the Democratic Party and a civic group “The World [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The state rights watchdog said providing spicy food to students at a kindergarten falls short of violating human rights. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea reviewed the said complaint submitted by “The Political Mamas,” a Seoul-based non-profit organization, against which it ruled that it does not amount to [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul education office said Tuesday it will open a probe into the shocking discovery of a dead tree frog in a lunch dish provided to students at a high school in the capital the previous day. The incident occurred at the unnamed high school in western Seoul, where [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Most fourth-grade students at elementary schools own a smartphone and 16 percent of them are addicted to smartphones or the internet, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted a nationwide survey of 1.2 million students including fourth-graders from elementary schools, first-year students from middle [...]