SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s shrinking population is resulting in a lack of enrollment at local universities. For the first time in school history, Chonnam National University was only able to enroll 4,067 new students, leaving 140 slots unfilled. Chosun University filled only 4,222 of 4,350 slots for new students, with 128 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Throwing graduation caps will be a rare scene to witness this year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. Most universities and colleges have decided to cancel, minimize, or hold graduation ceremonies online. Pusan National University has cancelled its offline graduation ceremony and instead decided to distribute graduation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Tuition fees at most universities are expected to remain unchanged as the coronavirus is raising prospects that online classes will continue for the new semester, frustrating both universities and students. Seoul National University recently decided to freeze tuition for both undergraduate and graduate schools for the new 2021 academic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite most of South Korea’s universities moving classes online for two straight semesters due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning infrastructure for students with visual disabilities remains inadequate. To ‘attend’ remote lectures, students need to play lecture videos, which are primarily offered through university websites. Such [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As millions of animals are sacrificed each year in lab experiments, animal management at university labs has yet to improve. According to a report from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety sent to Rep. Lee Tahney of the ruling Democratic Party, at least 3.7 million animals were used [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will allow online joint degree programs among universities at home and abroad beginning next year, education officials said Wednesday. During an inter-ministerial meeting on social issues, the Ministry of Education presented a series of measures to promote remote learning based on digital technologies in the COVID-19 era. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted what otherwise would have been a buzzy and exciting spring season, South Korea’s universities are scrambling to find a way to resume some resemblance of normalcy in the fall semester by taking annual festivals online. Most of the country’s universities put off [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases in South Korea, major universities in Seoul are choosing to give lectures online for the second semester, resulting in disappointment among freshmen. Following Yonsei University’s decision to hold all lectures online until October, Konkuk University and Kyunghee University also decided to hold [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. announced Monday that it will offer regular courses for colleges starring company staff with expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) technology teaching AI theories and business cases. Sixteen universities in South Korea, including Seoul National University and Korea University, currently incorporate AI as part of their school [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, universities are preparing to hold commencement ceremonies online. Seoul National University, after cancelling all commencement ceremonies in February, is preparing to hold ceremonies online in August through a series of videos . To accommodate as many students as possible, the university [...]