SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean students think that unification with North Korea is unnecessary, a survey showed Friday. In the online survey of 72,524 elementary, middle and high school students conducted by the education ministry and the unification ministry from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 61.2 percent replied [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry said Wednesday it is advising kindergarten to high school students to take rapid antigen tests at home twice a week before going to school in the upcoming semester amid a massive surge in infections. The non-binding recommendation was issued as part of a virus prevention scheme [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is considering requiring kindergarten and elementary students to take rapid COVID-19 tests at home before going to school twice a week starting next month, officials said Monday. “We’re conducting discussions while leaving various possibilities open, including a measure to have students go to school after tests [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are borrowing far fewer books at libraries following the coronavirus outbreak. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Education and Research Information Service conducted a survey of 433 universities across the country, which showed that each enrolled student borrowed an average of 2.3 books between March 2020 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is rising among students attending colleges located in mountainous areas, where the population of stray cats is increasing. While many students volunteer to organize clubs to protect stray cats, others disapprove of them. The student clubs believe that protecting stray cats helps control the cat population in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of university students majoring in languages are translating coronavirus text alerts and notices into ten different languages and distributing them for free. A multi-language translation project team for text message alerts that was founded in South Chungcheong Province in July last year, led by Jung Min-kyu, a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — As online-based industries such as the metaverse are enjoying rising popularity, South Korean middle and high school students are developing stronger preferences for software developer as their dream job. According to a survey conducted jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to offer up to 5 million won (US$4,200) in medical fee assistance for treatment of post-vaccination side effects among students, officials said Tuesday, as the country plans to expand the vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds in March. According to the education ministry, students [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As the age of eligibility for joining political parties is being reduced to the age of 16, schools are showing both excitement and concern. A new bill was passed at the National Assembly on Tuesday, effectively reducing the age of eligibility for joining political parties from the age of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in Iran hosted the 2021 coursework completion ceremony for students at the King Sejong Institute, a state-run Korean language education center. Twenty-six students from the advanced course participated in the offline ceremony. They are Korean language ‘experts’ that have completed the entire eight-semester course on [...]