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SNU to hire its first female Korean economics professor

May 8, 2018

The economics department at Seoul National University is expected to hire its first female Korean professor in its 72-year history. In posting a job opening for an economics professor last month, th...
Ministry to announce new guidelines for high school history textbooks in July

May 2, 2018

The Ministry of Education plans to announce new guidelines for high school history textbooks in about two months, its officials said Wednesday, in what will likely stir another heated debate over som...
Less than half of Korean parents satisfied with quality of teaching at children's school: poll

Apr 17, 2018

Less than half of parents in South Korea are pleased with the quality of teaching their children are getting from school, the lowest among the countries surveyed, an international poll showed Tuesday...
Daejeon to equip schools with air purifiers

Apr 16, 2018

Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education will help equip all schools in its city with air purifiers, in order to improve air quality within school facilities in the face of worsening fine dust concen...
Government to increase day care services for elementary school students

Apr 4, 2018

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday announced plans to increase public after-school day care services for children from 7 to 12 years of age to relieve the burdens of households where both parents wor...
[Herald Interview] ‘Strong foundation of mother tongue important in learning English’

Apr 2, 2018

SJA Jeju principal stresses importance of play in children’s education
Education Ministry to provide more free online lectures

Mar 29, 2018

(K-MOOC website) The Ministry of Education announced Thursday that it will widen the scope of its Korean Massive Open Online Course service to provide up to 500 free lectures. K-MOOC is a free web-...
[Herald Interview] Breaking stigma against 2-year vocational college

Mar 22, 2018

KCCE chairman talks on the need to reevaluate of labor and education in Korea
Dwight School Seoul students perform at Carnegie Hall

Mar 22, 2018

Eighteen students from Dwight School Seoul joined 240 students from Dwight campuses around the world to perform at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 13, in honor of their Chancellor Stephen Spahn, the longest-se...
Ewha professors granted autonomy in student-scoring method

Mar 20, 2018

Ewha Womans University announced Monday a test of a new grading system in which professors are entitled to choose how to grade students over the coming year. The new system aims to allow professors ...
Monthly spending on private education up 33 % in 2017 from 10 years ago

Mar 17, 2018

Monthly spending on private education rose 33 percent last year compared with 10 years earlier, a survey showed Saturday, pointing to South Koreans' zeal for education. Households spent a monthly av...
Korean No. 11 most studied language on US campuses

Mar 13, 2018

Korean is the 11th most studied language at US universities, according to the latest report from the Modern Language Association, released Tuesday. More than 13,900 students across 2,669 universitie...
[Photo News] Letters of hope from Korea to Uganda

Mar 13, 2018

Students from Seoul Chungmu Elementary School wrote encouraging messages to Uganda on Tuesday as part of the 10th annual fundraising event of nonprofit organization Good Neighbors. The Hope Letter C...
KF to provide renewed online Korean studies classes to foreign students

Mar 2, 2018

The Korea Foundation, the state-run public diplomacy agency, said Friday it will launch the third phase of the Global e-School, in which local universities provide online Korean studies courses to th...
International students get top honors at Korea, Sookmyung universities

Mar 1, 2018

Chinese student Wang Ping became the first international student to graduate with top honors at Korea University on Saturday. And Mango Jane Angar did the same at her college, becoming the first for...