by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Can an American score higher than two South Koreans on the English-language portion of a Korean college entrance exam? American expat Dave […]
Tag: education
South Korean Schools Reopen Despite Widespread MERS Fear
by the Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The death toll in South Korea’s MERS outbreak increased Tuesday even as schools reopened and people recovered from the […]
Friends, Family of Murdered South Korean Woman Seek Justice
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Friends and colleagues of Sunny Kim, a 26-year-old South Korean woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, have launched a GoFundMe campaign to […]
Meet the Boys of EXP, NYC’s Own K-pop Boy Band
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Columbia University student Bora Kim riled up the K-pop world about a month ago when word of her MFA thesis project—a non-Korean […]
Helen Gym Promises Education Efforts with Philadelphia City Council Win
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Los Angeles wasn’t the only city this week to see a Korean American elected into a city council position. Philadelphia saw a […]
Young South Koreans Finding That Degrees Don’t Translate to Jobs
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Two-thirds of South Koreans aged 25-34 boast college degrees, the highest proportion among the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and […]
5 Facts About Teachers’ Day in South Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Today is a special day for teachers in South Korea. On May 15, Korean teachers and students annually observe Teachers’ Day (스승의 날), […]
Five African Students Receive Scholarships to Duksung Women’s University
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Five African students will be pursuing their Master’s degrees at Duksung Women’s University through the school’s global partnership with U.N. Women, reports […]
Seoul to Strengthen Education on ‘Comfort Women’
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com The South Korean government announced on Wednesday that it will make efforts to further educate its elementary school students about Japans’s sexual enslavement […]
South Korea Honors American Nurse Who Founded First Nursing School in 1903
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com The South Korean government posthumously awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Margaret Jane Edmunds, an American nurse who founded the first […]
UC President Apologizes for Calling Student Protests Over Tuition ‘Crap’
Pictured above: University of California Berkeley student Kristian Kim throws fake money while starting a protest during a UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, […]
South Korean and Japanese Students Talk About English-Language Education
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com On this side of the Pacific, we often hear about our friends and peers heading over to Asia to teach English. But […]
South Korea Develops Smartphone Apps to Help Curb Student Suicide
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com The South Korean government has been developing a number of smartphone apps to help warn parents when their child might be at […]
Study Finds Students Give Lower Ratings to Asian Instructors on ‘Rate My Professors’
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com No one hates Rate My Professors more than professors, who claim that the website can lead to unfair ratings. Many students, however, […]
South Korean Millennials Among the Most Pessimistic About the Future
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com South Korea’s education and economy are ranked among the best in the world, but the country’s young adults seem to be pessimistic […]
