SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education is pushing to enable a wider variety of convenience facilities such as screen golf and large cafes and restaurants to operate on university campuses, an official said Sunday. Efforts are underway to expand the type of convenience facilities that can be installed on university campuses, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean universities are having difficulty recruiting new students due to a sharp decline in the school-age population resulting from a rapidly dropping birth rate. Against this backdrop, the number of universities that are attempting to downsize through mergers and integration is increasing. The Mungyeong [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Educational expenditures at South Korean universities last year increased on a per-student basis compared to a year earlier, but the actual value of scholarships and student loans disbursed declined. According to data from the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education, domestic universities’ educational expenditures per [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are reopening foreign exchange programs suspended during COVID-19 pandemic. Konkuk University held an orientation program for foreign exchange students on Tuesday for the first time in three years. A total of 203 foreign students will be attending the university for the fall semester. More than 150 of them [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Major universities in Seoul are bringing back offline graduation ceremonies this summer following the end of social distancing measures. The University of Seoul held its 2021 fall semester graduation ceremony on Monday, which was attended by some 1,000 people including graduates and their families. The offline graduation ceremony was [...]
SUWON/YONGIN, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More college students from overseas are entering South Korea for Korean language studies and Korean cultural programs as universities are restarting summer international exchange programs that were suspended due to the pandemic. Ajou University has been running a Summer School program for 20 college students from Uzbekistan since July [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday that it will launch a program with its chipmaking affiliate SK hynix Inc. to share their practical knowledge and know-how in the areas of semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) with local universities. The two companies will establish an online [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are cutting down on scholarships based on outstanding academic performance following the COVID-19 pandemic. As online lectures make it more difficult for professors to assess their students’ work, several universities are opting for an absolute assessment system for marking. The absolute assessment system turned out to be more [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans attending universities in Northeast China are giving up their enrollment after being denied entry to the country for two years. The South Korean Consulate General in Shenyang and an association of Korean students from Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in China said that local universities in these [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears of omicron are spreading on several university campuses in Seoul, school officials said Monday, as some of their foreign students are suspected of having contracted the highly contagious COVID-19 variant. One foreign student each from Seoul National University (SNU), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and Kyunghee University [...]