Dwight School Seoul will host an open house on Saturday for families of prospective students, officials said Monday. The event is intended for families of children aged 3 to 18 and will be held at the campus in Sangam-dong, western Seoul. It will continue from 10 a.m. to noon. “The Dwight School Seoul Open House is the perfect opportunity to experience all we have to offer,” said Lucy Kenneally...

A progressive teachers’ union on Monday urged the government to abandon the effort to outlaw it, holding President Park Geun-hye’s administration responsible for the commotion caused by the ongoing battle over the group’s legal status. “The attempts to outlaw the KTU stem from the president’s hostility toward the KTU,” the group said in a press conference held at its Seoul headquarters. “The Par...

A Seoul appeals court said Friday that a left-leaning teachers’ union should be recognized as a legitimate trade union until the court releases a final verdict on its status. The decision marked a rare victory for the embattled Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union in its prolonged battle with the government to avoid being shut down. “The court has recognized the urgent need to prevent t...

The Education Ministry’s data on school violence does not match that compiled by local education offices, a lawmaker said Thursday, raising questions about the credibility of the government’s tally. In 2012, the ministry said that 24,677 cases of violence occurred within the classroom, but the data from 17 education offices across Korea put the total number at 16,411, according to Rep. Jeong Jin...

The free high school education program, one of President Park Geun-hye’s election pledges, will not kick off next year due to budget restraints, the Education Ministry said Thursday. Government budget plans for 2015, revealed early in the day, showed that the ministry had not allocated any money for the free high school tuition plan, or for free child care programs for preschoolers and elementar...

Chung-Ang University is planning to shut down its graduate school of food and drug administration, officials said Wednesday, a decision that enraged students for being made unilaterally. The administrative committee at the Seoul-based university reached the decision last month and has brought it to the board of directors, according to officials. If the board members approve of the decision, the ...

The Seoul education chief said Monday he was still bent on cutting the number of autonomous private high schools despite being turned down by the Education Ministry, nearly two weeks after his bombshell announcement to revoke the status of eight of them. “Legally speaking, the superintendent is the one who has the right (to change the status of autonomous schools). The law only requires me to di...

Korea will kick off its second biannual survey on violence in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the country next week, the Education Ministry said Thursday. Students from some 600 schools ― ranging from fourth graders to second year high school students ― will participate in the nationwide survey. Parents of students in the cited schools will also be allowed to take part, should the...

Despite governmental efforts to boost spending on public education ― including ongoing efforts to cut college tuition ― Korean parents are still burdened with the hefty price of children’s learning, a new report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has found. In South Korea, 37.2 percent of the funding for educational institutes came from the private sector, which was th...

Seoul Education Chief Cho Hi-yeon said Thursday the autonomous private high school system has intensified the pecking order of schools in Korea, and suggested that the government revise the law on the de facto elite schools. “The autonomous private high school policy boiled down to ‘vertical diversity,’ when we need to pursue the horizontal diversity of schools,” he said during a press conferenc...