SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean universities are positively responding to the demand for partial tuition refunds to compensate students for disrupted learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Korea Maritime & Ocean University recently became the first school in the southern port city of Busan to decide to offer refunds. [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy has erupted after a college student wrote a letter in his own blood, asking his university to refund school tuition and hold final examinations online amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, a post with the title, “We need a letter written in blood to get our tuition back?” [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s education ministry on Thursday urged universities and students to mutually resolve the latter’s growing call for tuition refunds amid the new coronavirus pandemic. “(The ministry) feels regretful that students cannot attend in-person classes due to the new coronavirus. (It) also sympathizes with universities whose budgets have been [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean officials and universities on Thursday began to discuss how to meet students’ growing calls for refunds over disruptions in schools caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Most universities delayed the start of the new semester by two weeks last month and are running online classes to prevent the [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are postponing the school year and plan to replace lectures with online courses due to the coronavirus outbreak. Students, in turn, are concerned over the risk of a drop in the quality of the education they’re paying for. Students at Sungkyunkwan University, which began a new semester on [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are facing growing calls for refunds from students as classes are being disrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most universities postponed the start of the new semester by one or two weeks and many are replacing in-person classes with online lectures. A petition filed with the [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of Chinese students enrolled in South Korean universities have yet to return here after their winter break in China, the Ministry of Education here said Tuesday, indicating their growing fears over coronavirus outbreak ahead of the start of the spring semester. The ministry said 45.6 percent, or [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are raising funds to help overcome the coronavirus. Students and alumni at Korea University have raised 12.2 million won (US$10,300) since last Friday, all of which will be sent to medical centers in virus-hit Daegu this Friday. A different fundraiser organized by eight students from Korea University and [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — While most universities have decided to postpone the start of the school year to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus, 8 out of 10 college students think that tuition fees should be partially refunded, according to a survey. The National University Student Council Network, a network of 27 [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic universities have so far reported 13 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, including one Chinese student, a professors group said Monday. The University Professors Association of Korea said the 13 COVID-19 patients include eight undergraduates, three graduate students, one professor and one inhabitant of a university-run apartment. It [...]