SEJONG, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A striking wage gap has emerged in South Korea, with graduates from the top 20% of universities earning up to 50% more than those from the bottom 20%. This significant disparity is fueling intense competition for university admissions, contributing to social issues such as low birth rates and regional imbalances, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis of the 2024 academic year’s regular admissions by Jongno Academy revealed that over 30% of universities recorded a competition rate of less than 3 to 1, indicating an admissions rate below the required threshold. The study analyzed 188 universities nationwide, finding an average competition rate of 4.67 [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In response to the decreasing student population in South Korea, local education offices are set to actively recruit international students. The Ministry of Education announced on January 9 that nine education offices, including Gwangju, North Gyeongsang Province, Daegu, Busan, Seoul, Incheon, South Jeolla Province, South Chungcheong Province, and North Chungcheong [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities will be given more autonomy in curriculum management and students will be given more leeway in choosing or changing their major from next year at the earliest, the Ministry of Education said, announcing a set of deregulatory measures. A planned revision of the Higher Education Act’s enforcement decree [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the dwindling number of young professors, the average age of university professors is on the rise, a report showed Monday. According to the National Research Foundation, there were 73,948 faculty members at four-year colleges in South Korea as of 2021. Sorted by age, 16,247 professors were over 60 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s only college department for the game of Go, known as “baduk” in South Korea, is about to disappear, sparking a protest from the Go community. The Korea Baduk Association released a statement signed by 408 professional Go players, asking Myongji University to reconsider its plan to shut [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — While the South Korean legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is raising awareness about people with autism spectrum disorders, only a few people with autism are actually able to attend university, data showed Sunday. Rep. Lee Eun-joo of the minor opposition Justice Party quoted a report from the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state rights watchdog has ruled that mandatory church services at educational institutions constitute a violation of the freedom of religion. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said Thursday it has advised a local university to add an alternative course or project to replace mandatory church service. A [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 40 percent of teenagers from multicultural families enroll in university, raising concerns that they are falling into the ‘low-education’ trap, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Gender and Equality conducted a nationwide survey of 15,000 multicultural households, in which only 40.5 percent of teenagers (age 9 to [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Although South Korean university students are experiencing various difficulties due to employment struggles and expensive college tuition, their stress level is different by gender and their parents’ income and academic level, a study showed Monday. A research team from Korea University carried out a latent profile analysis based on [...]