SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education and the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said Tuesday that they will jointly launch a new service using artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend books on the basis of an analysis of students’ reading history and activities. The ‘Book Fruit’ service employs an AI recommendation [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of high schoolers have been lauded for building a self-driving vehicle that is now being used to carry waste at school. A software club at Gwangdeok High School in the southwestern city of Gwangju, consisting of 18 student members from the 9th to 12th grades, recently built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis showed that school violence is becoming less physical. One factor behind this is the difficulty in entering into face-to-face contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data that Rep. Lee Tan-hee of the Democratic Party received from the National Police Agency, the number of ‘assault [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The total number of students in kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools in South Korea has fallen below 6 million for the first time, government data showed Thursday, amid the nation’s declining birthrate. According to data from the Ministry of Education, there were 5,957,087 students enrolled in kindergartens [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The so-called “corona blues,” or depressive symptoms arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, are more prevalent among students from low-income households. The Seoul Education Research and Information Institute conducted a survey of 19,884 students from elementary, middle, and high schools in the region, asking them about the difficulties they have [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Several girls’ middle and high schools in Seoul have deleted school provisions restricting the color of undergarments that the students can wear. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education carried out special consultations with 31 girls’ middle and high schools with similar rules on undergarments, six of which decided to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American students in the U.S. have published a book about Korean folklore in the English language. Eleven students from Hwarang Youth Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization based in California, translated and published Korean fables to share the tradition and spirit of the Korean people with children from around [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a third of elementary and secondary school students in South Korea will be provided with opportunities for special supplementary classes to make up for their COVID-19-related learning losses, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Education said it will spend about 800 billion won (US$698 million) until [...]
SEONGNAM, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A local university’s student venture club has developed an eye-catching sock for visually impaired people. The innovative sock has been selling well, proving its commercial value. Gachon University’s student venture club ‘re;sight’ developed a sock that can be ‘seen’ through one’s fingertips. The sock has been designed for visually [...]
GOYANG, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Z Corp.’s metaverse platform Zepeto became the stage for a meeting between school violence prevention officers and teenagers. Ilsan Seobu Police Station’s Honorary Police Scouts, joining the metaverse with their uniquely decorated avatars, met with police officers virtually. The teenagers shared their ideas and complaints about preventing school [...]