South Korea’s Education Ministry said Tuesday it planned to strengthen safety education for elementary, middle and high school students as well as teacher candidates after a string of lethal accidents revealed safety issues involving schools and extracurricular activities. The safety-enhancing plans came in response to mounting calls to improve the safety level in schools after the sinking of th...

Seoul’s education department has decided to earmark a budget that will run the state-led free child care program known as Nuri for only the first three months of 2015, urging the central government to fork out extra funds to cover the shortfalls surpassing 200 billion won. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education set aside 342.9 billion won ($316.2 million) for the 2015 Nuri program, which aim...

Fourteen unauthorized educational facilities in Gyeonggi Province will be banned from enrolling new students and calling themselves schools unless they register themselves, the Ministry of Education said Monday. The measure is part of the Education Ministry’s bid to rein in unauthorized schools, curb expensive school fees, and improve standards in operation, curriculum and safety. Education off...

President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday the success of her trademark “creative economy” initiative hangs on establishing a new education model that encourages students to think creatively, in a departure from the conventional ones focused on rote memorization of facts. “Students suffer from the excessive ‘education fever’ and the immense stress of having to go to a high-ranking school, and are depr...

President Park Geun-hye vowed Tuesday to realize an education system that stresses creativity and goes beyond traditional paradigms, a view in line with her "creative economy" vision. "Our education should be the source of creative ideas that sparks innovation," Park said in a speech at an education symposium held jointly by South Korean education institutes and the World Bank. She said South K...

TV lectures on Korea’s college entrance exam aired on a state-run education channel did little to improve students’ scores and curb sky-high private education costs, a study showed Monday. The government-backed EBS Suneung programs were implemented in 2010 in a bid to reduce the overall expenditure on private education. The Education Ministry’s goal was to enable students to prepare for the cruc...

South Korea’s Education Ministry said Friday it would not challenge the recent ruling on a flawed question on the college entrance exam last year and would take measures to adjust the affected students’ scores, a move that is likely to have an impact on thousands of students’ college admission results. Everyone who took the world geography test that contained the cited question will get credit f...

Six out of 14 elite high schools in Seoul metropolitan city will be stripped of their privileges for improperly implementing their curriculum, the Seoul educational office said Friday. The office, however, withheld a decision on two other schools after they vowed to give up their right to select students based on their test scores. The phase-out of private high schools with the right to autonom...