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 [...]
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 [...]