SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean university students turned out to perceive Apple Inc. as having a “trend-setting” image and Samsung Electronics Co. as having a “friendly” image, a survey showed Tuesday. University student community operator Vinu Labs Inc. conducted a survey of 2,000 students in their 20s who said they had more than [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education and the Korea Student Aid Foundation jointly announced on Thursday the launch of the full-scale operation of a tutoring program designed to address the educational loss of elementary and middle school students in the areas of learning, psychology and emotions, starting from May. Under this [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Students are borrowing less to pay for school tuition as universities have been holding lectures online since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. A study conducted by the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education of 195 universities and colleges of education showed that 419,942 students [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean university students have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against the Ministry of Education and schools, seeking partial tuition refunds for disruptions to learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Movement for Tuition Refunds, a student group formed by the National University Student Council, held [...]
GYEONGSAN, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of university students from Gyeongsan in North Gyeongsang province began a 200-kilometer protest march towards the Ministry of Education in Sejong, South Chungcheong province, calling for a tuition refund after their schools delayed on-campus classes amid the continued coronavirus outbreak. The chairmen of the student councils at [...]
DAEJEON, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Local university students have decided to start a movement to share protective masks with foreign students struggling to purchase them. Students at Woosong University in the central city of Daejeon set up a donation box on the school campus on Tuesday and began activities to share protective masks to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to an online survey conducted by job site Albamon, more than a quarter of South Korean university students don’t read books outside of school-related material. Of the students participating in the survey, 474 of the 1,289 (36.8 percent) responded that they did not read books unrelated to school. [...]