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Sat, June 19, 2021 | 19:12

Sex offenders to be banned from becoming homeroom teachers for up to 10 years

Teachers punished for sexual misconduct will be banned from becoming homeroom teachers for a maximum of 10 years, the education ministry said Tuesday.

2021-06-15 14:46

Korean folk tales now in Guatemala's public school textbooks

Most Koreans know the traditional folk tale “Heungbu and Nolbu,” a story about two brothers which contains the moral lesson that good people are blessed and greedy ones become unhappy. Now the famous folk tale is also being taught in a state-published textbook for elementary school students in Guatemala, a Central American country with a population of 18 million. The story is...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-13 15:35

Seoul education office to expand PCR tests before resuming in-person classes

The Seoul education office said it has decided to expand pre-emptive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing in schools and increase the number of school quarantine personnel in preparation for the full resumption of in-person classes in the second semester. Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE), announced the plan during a press co...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-10 15:34

People in early 20s seeking CSAT to get vaccine

Some people in their early 20s are planning to apply for the state-run college entrance exam to be held in November, not because they want to enter a university, but because the government will give COVID-19 vaccines to test-takers to prevent the infection from spreading among them. Complicating the issue is the fact that the education authorities have virtually no way of sor...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-09 16:15

Stanford sets up research center in Incheon

Stanford University has opened a smart city research center in Songdo, according to the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA). The authority and Incheon Metropolitan City held an opening ceremony for the Stanford Center on the Incheon Global Campus (SCIGC), Thursday, attended by Incheon Mayor Park Nam-chun, IFEZ director Lee Won-jae and SCIGC faculty director Michael L...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-04 17:12

Proportion of students struggling with math soars amid pandemic

The proportion of students who are failing to solve even basic math problems steeply increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed.

Yoon Ja-young | 2021-06-03 17:21

Digital divide sees senior citizens having difficulty using kiosks

When Lee Sun-hwa, 68, who lives in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, recently took her grandson to his favorite curry restaurant, she was embarrassed when a clerk hurriedly came to her with a bill. This was because Lee, who was not familiar with using a digital kiosk, ordered 14 dishes by mistakenly pushing different buttons on the screen.

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-03 16:00

PM instructs authorities to prepare for full-fledged in-person schooling

Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on Wednesday called for careful preparations toward full-fledged in-person schooling starting in the second half, as the COVID-19 vaccination campaign picks up speed across the nation.

2021-06-02 11:08

New infections back to over 600

Professors are main perpetrators of sexual abuse at graduate schools: survey

More than six out of every 10 cases of sexual violence against graduate school students are committed by their professors, a survey showed, Tuesday. According to the survey of 83 male and 230 female graduate school students at Kyung Hee University conducted by the school's student counselling center from December to January, 24.3 percent, or 76 respondents, said they experien...

Bahk Eun-ji | 2021-06-02 09:03

Koreans rank 2nd in Asia on TOEIC scores

Koreans ranked second in Asia last year in terms of TOEIC scores, with only Filipinos doing better than them in the English capability test. According to the Korea TOEIC Committee, Koreans scored on average 683 points - on a scale of 10 to 990 - in last year's TOEIC, which is five points higher than the previous year. TOEIC, or Test of English for International Communication,...

Yoon Ja-young | 2021-05-27 16:43

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