SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education announced Monday that extremely difficult questions not taught in schools will be eliminated from the annual college entrance exam as part of the government’s efforts to reduce private education expenses. The ministry said it will push for a “fair College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) centered [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — High-income families with children attending middle or high school spend as much money on private education as they do on food and housing, data showed Sunday. Based on data from Statistics Korea, households in the top 20 percent of income brackets spend an average of 1,002,000 won (US$766) per [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s “medical school craze” has intensified to the point where students as young as elementary school are attending entrance exam classes. This phenomenon is not limited to the mecca of private education, Daechi-dong in southern Seoul, but is widespread across the country. This trend has become increasingly controversial [...]
SEJONG, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Spending on private education for South Korean students shot up 10.8 percent on-year in 2022, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the country’s unwavering enthusiasm for education. Total expenditures on private education for primary, middle, and high school students amounted to 26 trillion won (US$20 billion) in 2022, soaring from 23.4 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The private coding education industry is scrambling to cater to an increase in demand after a recent government decision to nurture digital talent. The government plan includes doubling the time spent on IT education at elementary and middle schools, introducing a programming course as a mandatory part of the [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More people have been spending more for online courses during the pandemic era, a report said Wednesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) conducted a survey of 10,154 people, of which 1,221 (12 percent) had used online means of education. Among them, 691 were either elementary, middle, high [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Spending on private after-school classes hit a record high of 23.4 trillion won (US$18.9 billion) last year amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic that restricted in-person school education, according to a survey released by the education ministry Friday. The 2021 expenditures, based on a survey of some 74,000 elementary to [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Spending on private education for children declined nearly 12 percent last year amid the fallout of the pandemic, data showed Tuesday. Total expenditures on private education for primary, middle and high school students amounted to 9.3 trillion won (US$8.1 billion) last year, down 11.8 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Three-fourths of South Korean students received private tutoring in 2019, for which they spent 6.5 hours a week on average, a new survey showed. The annual survey, released earlier this week and conducted by the national Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family on the country’s [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean students’ spending on private education spiked to a 10-year high in 2019, data from the Ministry of Education and Statistics Korea showed Tuesday, reflecting undiminished parental enthusiasm for their children’s academic achievements. Elementary, middle and high school students spent 20.99 trillion won (US$17.6 billion) on private [...]