SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a legal dispute surrounding the planned closure of Myongji University’s Go department, the only such program in the world, a court has rejected a request by professors and students to suspend the university’s admission plan that would discontinue new student enrollment. According to legal circles, the Seoul Southern District [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Tuesday it will create a joint artificial intelligence (AI) research lab with New York University (NYU). The Global AI Frontier Lab will be co-led by two distinguished computer scientists — Cho Kyung-hyun and Yann LeCun — who are both professors at NYU, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – As the government plans to increase admissions to medical schools, a major concern raised by the medical community is the shortage of donated cadavers for anatomy lessons, which could undermine the quality of medical education. While promoting body donation is crucial for high-quality medical training, a recent survey revealed that [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Low salaries and abusive complaints from parents are the top reasons young teachers in South Korea are leaving the profession, according to a new survey that highlights disillusionment in a field once seen as a stable career path. The poll of over 1,000 teachers in Seoul by the Korean Teachers [...]
MUAN, South Korea, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An international education fair will kick off in the southwestern city of Yeosu late this month to seek and discuss the direction of future education in the era of digital transformation, organizers said Tuesday. The Korea Glocal Education Fair 2024 is set to open at Expo Ocean [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Duksung Women’s University said Wednesday it will not assign new students to the German and French language departments starting next year, signaling its intent to abolish the two European language majors. The northern Seoul university’s board decided on the abolition of the German Language & Literature and the French [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea lodged a strong protest against Japan on Friday after Tokyo approved new school textbooks that downplay the coercive nature of its wartime atrocities and reinforce its territorial claims to Dokdo. The foreign ministry also called in Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Aiboshi to deliver the formal [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle and high school students in Paraguay will be able to learn Korean as a second foreign language under an agreement between the two countries, officials said. The education ministry said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its Paraguayan counterpart, effectively adding Korean to the list of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) –In a recently published book, Son Woong-jung, the father of Tottenham Hotspur captain Son Heung-min, firmly rejected the notion that parents should strive to be friends with their children. “People often say parents should be friends with their kids, but I see that as dereliction of duty,” said Son Woong-jung, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gangnam District Office in Seoul has announced the launch of a new “Bite-Sized Math” video series through its online Gangnam Video Lecture platform, designed to help middle school students master key concepts in just five minutes per topic. Catering to the growing “short-form” video trend that emphasizes time efficiency, [...]