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The total number of foreign students studying in South Korea has surpassed the 100,000 mark, a local education data institute said Sunday.Data provided by Higher Education in Korea (www.academyinfo.go.kr) showed the landmark number being reached as of April 1, with 104,262 students enrolle...
Updated : 2016.09.18 09:57
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A public foundation on Sunday said a booklet of the yearly schedules of preschools and primary schools and terminology used in them are currently available for parents of multicultural families.The Korean Institute for Healthy Family, a state-affiliated organization working to help famili...
Updated : 2016.09.04 17:00
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A survey showed Thursday that a majority of Korean parents have tried teaching their children English, with many of them having studied the language themselves to enhance their teaching ability. Accor...
Updated : 2016.08.25 17:00
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As many as 50 students from a Beijing high school have transferred to four separate high schools in Seoul en masse as they aspire to study at South Korean universities, school officials said Thursday, amid Chinese parents'increasing zeal for a high level of education in their neighboring c...
Updated : 2016.08.25 16:05
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South Korea's government on Tuesday said it has imposed administrative penalties on some hundreds of private education institutes illegally operating in the affluent southern part of Seoul this year. The Seoul Gangnam Seocho District Office of Education said a total of 259 cram schools wer...
Updated : 2016.08.23 10:47
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The amount of money South Koreans spent on education abroad dropped 7.6 percent in the first six months of this year from a year earlier, central bank data showed Sunday, amid the declining number of South Koreans studying abroad.South Koreans studying abroad spent a total of US$1.57 billi...
Updated : 2016.08.07 17:19
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Dozens of Korean language teachers from around the world gathered in Seoul Tuesday to discuss ways to improve their teaching amid heightened interest in the Asian language.The 14th conference of overseas Korean language educators brought together more than 80 teachers and professors from 2...
Updated : 2016.07.26 15:41
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The King Sejong Institute, South Korea's state-supported Korean language training organization, hosted the 8th World Korean Educators Conference on Tuesday to further promote overseas understanding of the Northeast Asian country. A total of 300 attendees are in Seoul to attend the four-d...
Updated : 2016.07.12 13:06
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South Korean universities, which are worried about their futures due to dropping birthrates, are studying ways to make inroads abroad, local school sources said Monday. Ewha Womans University in Seoul recently disclosed its plan to branch out into the United States and China. National univ...
Updated : 2016.07.11 16:54
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The Australian government has invited five North Korean defectors to study English for up to 30 weeks this year in the first run of its state-subsidized English-learning program, organizers said recently.The students, now South Korean citizens, will leave in September to join the Universit...
Updated : 2016.06.30 16:53
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A British institution on higher education has selected the Korean city of Ulsan to play host to a summit of Asian universities in March next year, the city government said Monday.The Ulsan regional go...
Updated : 2016.06.27 13:33
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A total of 700 foreign students from 142 countries will be given opportunities to study in local universities via this year's government-sponsored scholarship program, a state-run organ on internation...
Updated : 2016.06.22 11:00
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Two South Koreans have graduated at the top of their classes at the prestigious Bilkent University in Turkey.Kwon Tae-young and his little sister Min-ah were awarded Bachelor's degrees in interior arc...
Updated : 2016.06.19 09:07
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One out of every five elementary schools in the country has less than 10 new students this year due to a decrease in the number of children, education ministry-related data showed Monday.According to the school information website under the ministry-affiliated Korea Education and Research ...
Updated : 2016.06.13 14:43
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Operators of the ACT college entrance exam on Saturday canceled the tests for students in South Korea and Hong Kong at the last moment over what they said was a verified bre...
Updated : 2016.06.12 11:04
