SEOUL– The Ministry of Education will use a supplementary budget to alleviate classroom crowding in order to bring more students back into school buildings come September amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ministry’s document has shown.According to the d…
SEOUL– Many South Korean students were found to have fallen behind in Korean, math and English, research showed Wednesday, confirming pandemic learning loss amid yearlong remote learning.The Ministry of Education unveiled the results of the educationa…
SEOUL– Three South Korean university students were arrested by police on Tuesday for burning a Japanese flag near the Japanese Embassy in downtown Seoul.The students are accused of setting the Rising Sun Flag, formerly used by the Japanese imperial ar…
SEOUL– Starting in 2022, baseball players in their second year at four-year universities or three-year junior colleges will be eligible for the annual draft for the nation’s top professional league, alongside their senior teammates.The Korea Baseball …
The government’s push to scrap three types of elite high schools in 2025 has come under greater scrutiny following a series of court rulings in favor of keeping the institutions intact.The latest development came Friday when the Seoul Administrative Co…
SEOUL– North Korea appears to have started resuming in-person classes in schools, according to state media Tuesday, after the country shifted classes online last year over coronavirus concerns.The North’s official newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, and the…
SEOUL, For all his love for infield shifts and advanced data, Carlos Subero still calls himself “old school.”That’s because Subero, first-year manager for the Hanwha Eagles in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), is not a fan of rule changes being im…
SEONGNAM, South Korea, Thirteen foreign students enrolled in a university in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, municipal officials said Saturday.The first coronavirus case of a foreign student occurred at the unnamed uni…
SEONGNAM, South Korea, Eleven foreign students enrolled in a university in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, have been diagnosed with COVID-19, municipal officials said Saturday.The first coronavirus case of a foreign student occurred at the unnamed unive…
SEOUL, South Korea’s competitiveness in major science and technology fields rose overall last year, reducing its gap with the leader the United States, a report showed Thursday. The Ministry of...
SEOUL, Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will launch another budget smartphone model in South Korea this week as the global tech giant eyes beefing up its handset sales against...
SEOUL, President Moon Jae-in has picked Lee Keun, an economics professor, as vice chairman of the presidential advisory panel on the economy, Cheong Wa Dae announced Tuesday. Lee is an...