Korea International School aims to help students prepare for their future. With its North American-based school curricula, KIS pursues education that builds a strong academic foundation for students by challenging them to develop long-term, higher-order mastery of learning. The curricula for kindergarten and elementary school students at KIS center on transdisciplinary learning. The school offer...

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday went ahead with the appointment of Rep. Yoo Eun-hae of the ruling Democratic Party as the new education minister, in spite of objections from opposition lawmakers over her apparent ethical lapses -- including falsifying her home address so she could enroll her daughter in a prestigious elementary school in central Seoul. “We are aware that there is opposition...

Kyung Hee University will hold Peace BAR Festival 2018 to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the International Day of Peace and gather academia, nongovernmental organizations and business partnerships to examine the Korean Peninsula and find values to contribute to the global peace movement. The two-day festival will be held from Tuesday to Thursday under the theme “The Korean Peninsula in an Age...

Some 1,400 South Korean high school students were found to have plagiarized their college admission essays last year, data showed Wednesday. According to the data, provided by the Korean Council for University Education, 1,406 students were disqualified from admission over plagiarized personal statements. (Yonhap) Universities throughout Korea began using plagiarism detection software in 2011,...

The Education Ministry on Monday published revised guidelines on school violence that give victims the right to participate in the retrial process. The revised guidelines, which come three years after the first set of guidelines was introduced in 2014, provide a detailed process for dealing with school violence, to allow victims to receive proper assistance from school violence centers across th...

Sex education teachers stress importance of identifying differences between romance and violence, and shedding gender stereotypes

Would-be public servants flock to Noryangjin to prepare for exams

SEJONG -- Labor conditions for about 80,000 part-time lecturers in South Korea are expected to improve as a result of a policy proposal agreed upon Monday by instructors, universities and the government. At a media conference at the Ministry of Education, a consultative panel tasked with improving the treatment of part-time lecturers announced a proposal that would mandate universities to hire p...

A nongovernmental group said Monday it will distribute books on the history of the so-called “comfort women” and related issues later this month to 18 high schools in the San Francisco area. The San Francisco-based Education for Social Justice Foundation published the not-for-sale, 106-page student edition of “’Comfort Women’ History and Issues for Students” last week, which will be the first ed...

The Education Ministry announced Sunday that it will provide 4.6 billion won ($4.1 million) to public schools for the installment of safety devices to prevent young children from accidentally being left alone on school buses According to the ministry, it will provide 300,000 won each for the 15,000 school buses of public kindergartens, elementary and special schools across the nation to install ...

The upcoming Belgian cultural festival at Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon will lay the groundwork for increased cooperation and exchange between the South Korean city and Belgium, says Han Tae-jun, acting president of the institution. The event, which takes place Friday and Saturday, will include lectures, exhibitions, and contemporary and classical music performances. Han Tae-jun. “...

Amid the prolonged heat wave, Seoul’s education board has recommended all of the city’s elementary, middle and high schools to consider postponing the starting day of the upcoming school term. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on Tuesday officially notified schools of its suggestion to adjust their academic calendars to protect students and faculty members from the risks of scorching we...

President Lee Young-moo highlights founding philosophy of “Love in Deed and Truth” to realize social innovation

More than 150 students and teachers attended the “2018 Sunfull Youth Summer Camp” held at Parkdaljae Youth Center in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, from July 21 to 22, according to the Sunfull Internet Peace Movement Headquarters. Students spoke out against cyberbullying and hate speech that can incite hatred and possibly push victims to take their own lives. Students and teachers partici...

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said 17 high schools in Seoul will reduce one class each starting in 2019 due to a rapid decrease in students. Seven public boarding high schools and 10 private high schools will cut one freshman class each because the 17 schools had less than 22 students per class, according to a report by SMOE. The standard set by SMOE in 2018 is 27 students per class...