SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), which is currently seeking to open its own university in South Jeolla Province in 2022, is expected to face hurdles in opening on time amid financial and administrative challenges, industry watchers said Monday. In January, KEPCO selected the Booyoung Country Club golf [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) said Monday it has selected South Jeolla Province as the site for its planned engineering university. KEPCO earlier said it was considering building its own university in either South Jeolla Province or the southeastern city of Gwangju, located 329 kilometers from Seoul. [...]
POHANG, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of engineers from Pohang University of Science and Technology has successfully developed so-called “bio-blood-vessels” using material extracted from the human body as a template for 3D printing. The team found that its printed blood vessels exhibited no problems in performing their desired function when implanted. The vessels [...]
SEOUL, April. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will help more local universities provide quality education in the software sector as part of its drive to develop the industry and nurture more talent, the science minister said Monday. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning picked eight schools in 2015, six in 2016 and [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Student outcry continues to grow on campuses across the nation over class-size restrictions, as universities struggle to appease students while also facing government-mandated structure reforms on higher education facilities. University websites have been inundated with online messages posted by students looking to swap classes with others, with some desperate [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of prospective college students and parents visited COEX on Thursday for the 2017 academic year university fair, hosted by the Korea Council for University Education. The event was attended by officials from 135 universities across the country, and offered free counselling, information about different schools and the college [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has become the first site in Asia Pacific to implement a complete networking solution that combines both Brocade® network switches and Wi-Fi access systems from Ruckus Wireless, which was acquired by Brocade in May [...]
SUWON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s low birthrate, which began dropping in the 1970s, is gradually leading to a decline in the number of college students. The number of new college admissions declined from 549,000 in 2014 to 529,000 in 2015 and 516,000 in 2016. As a countermeasure to Korea’s changing demographics, schools are [...]
CAIRO, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The opening ceremony of a Korean language major has taken place in a local university in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan. The event was held at Aswan University on Wednesday, with some 150 students, parents, Korean officials and university staff in attendance, said the Korea International Cooperation Agency [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Choosing a college major is an important decision that will have a big impact on one’s future career, and simply pursuing a teenage dream may not always be the optimal choice when it comes to practicality, especially with a faltering economy. According to a recent KEIS (Korea Employment Information [...]