SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 300 current teachers have reported their involvement in profitable activities associated with private educational companies, including selling exam questions and creating study materials, the education ministry said Monday. Among them, 45 people acknowledged receiving over 50 million won (US$37,260) from companies over the course of five years, including [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four teachers cited insufficient punishment for misbehaving students and parents as the main reason for the increase in the infringement of teachers’ rights, a poll by the education ministry showed Thursday. In the online survey of 22,084 teachers working at 1,315 kindergartens and elementary, middle, high and [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of teachers staged a large-scale protest in downtown Seoul on Saturday, calling for the normalization of the public education, after a colleague took her own life at an elementary school last week. Police estimated that around 21,000 activists took part in the event, while organizers asserted [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the recent suicide of an elementary school teacher in Seoul, which has been largely attributed to excessive complaints from students’ parents, an internet checklist has been circulating to identify so-called ‘monster parents.’ This checklist is being shared on online communities and social media, containing 11 questions aimed at [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a recent case of suicide committed by a young homeroom teacher at an elementary school in Seoul’s Seocho Ward, rumors are spreading that excessive complaints from parents led the teacher to take such extreme measures. Teachers have increasingly faced verbal and physical assaults from students’ parents, according to [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to slash hiring of new teachers across all elementary, middle and high schools by 20-30 percent by 2027 amid a steep fall in the school-age population, the education ministry said. The decision was released as part of the ministry’s long-term teacher employment plan for the 2024-2027 [...]
SUWON, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a drop in the school-age population, more teachers are being put on standby even after passing the teacher certification examination. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said that 47 people passed the teacher employment exam for kindergartens in the Gyeonggi area this year. However, none of them were assigned [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 South Korean teachers feel anxiety about being reported for child abuse by their students, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey of 5,520 kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school teachers across the country conducted by the Korea Federation of Teachers’ Associations, 77 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Those who pass the teacher employment exam for elementary schools in Seoul currently have to wait for more than a year before getting a job, government data showed Tuesday, amid declining demand for teachers resulting from the decrease in the number of school-age children and a plunging birth rate. New [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to reduce the public school workforce due to a decline in the student population. According to the plan that the Ministry of Education formulated through consultations with other government agencies, the government will lower the number of public school teachers to 344,906 next year, a reduction [...]