SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The “CAMPUS Asia” program, an educational collaboration among South Korea, China and Japan designed to train a new generation of leaders of Asia, will be expanded this year to include three Southeast Asian countries, the education ministry in Sejong said Tuesday. CAMPUS Asia, short for Collective Action for Mobility [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state intelligence agency said Thursday it has agreed to cooperate with a local university to support education programs in the counterespionage and security fields in a bid to help train skilled manpower. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor ministry said Friday that Seoul National University harassed its sanitation workers by requiring them to take written exams that were largely unrelated to their work. The ministry carried out an investigation into allegations of workplace harassment after a sanitation worker at one of the university’s dormitories was [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A local university will set up a gender neutral bathroom which anyone, regardless of their gender, will be able to use. Sungkonghoe University’s student body unanimously decided to introduce a gender-neutral bathroom this year. The bathroom will be open to anyone, regardless of gender, age, disability, and sexual orientation. [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Clusters of coronavirus infections have recently popped up in universities in the city, prompting classes to switch back to online, with students rushing to get tested, less than a month after the spring semester began. At Sogang University in western Seoul, a total of eight students have tested positive [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are witnessing a wide range of ideas for online matriculation ceremonies as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on. Soonchunhyang University held a virtual matriculation ceremony on Tuesday where students were able to participate as avatars. The school created a virtual space designed after the campus’s main sports [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases across South Korea, universities are holding drive-in graduation ceremonies to keep their students safe. Hongik University, in tandem with telecom giant KT Corp., held a drive-in graduation ceremony at the school’s Seoul campus on Aug. 21, which student representatives, award winners, graduates [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As campuses have transitioned to online institutions due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools are left with an agonizing question: Should students be trusted to take online exams and not cheat? While most students uphold academic honesty, some care more about receiving better grades by looking up answers online or [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — At Soongsil University, another school conflict is brewing, this time over the installation of a banner with the phrase “sexual minority.” The university did not follow the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), South Korea’s human rights watchdog, to correct an earlier decision and allow students [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost all university students in South Korea are demanding a refund of their tuition fees for the spring semester, a poll said Tuesday, citing poor quality of online lectures currently underway due to the coronavirus. The survey of 21,784 students at 203 universities and colleges found 99.2 percent of [...]