The government on Tuesday announced measures to reinforce Korean language education for children of multicultural families and to expand support for foreign wives as part of efforts to help them better assimilate into Korean society. The latest move comes as increasing numbers of Korean men are marrying foreign wives, and migrant workers continue to settle here for employment opportunities. Und...

The municipal education office here has taken steps to nullify a controversial ordinance to protect the human rights of students, its officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education led by conservative Superintendent Moon Yong-lin recently withdrew two cases of lawsuits it had filed with the highest court in opposition to the education ministry’s ban on schools’ enforcement ...

Korean universities have taken three of the top 10 places in a recent ranking of Asia’s best institutions. In the first edition of Asia University Rankings released on Wednesday, Korea had 14 of the top 100 institutions and more in the top 10 than any other country, according to Times Higher Education. Pohang University of Science and Technology ranked fifth on the list, followed by Seoul Natio...

COPENHAGEN (AP) ― Tens of thousands of Danish teachers were locked out of schools on Tuesday after negotiations with municipal authorities over weekly work hours failed to produce an agreement. The National Teachers Union said 52,000 teachers were barred from entering schools, affecting some 875,000 pupils. Thousands of teachers held impromptu protests throughout Denmark, carrying signs and wear...

Seoul National University confirmed Thursday that a professor recently resigned after accusations of plagiarizing his thesis published in 2004. A 48-year-old surnamed Kim recently offered his resignation after admitting that he copied an article from Yale University for his article published by the Korean Association of International Studies. The plagiarism allegation first arose from an email ...

A provincial education chief was detained Wednesday on a bribery charge, court officials said Thursday. Kim Jong-seong, chief of the South Chungcheong Office of Education, has been under investigation since last month on charges that the 63-year-old ordered government officials to take bribes worth 290 million won ($267,000) from people seeking to become state education advisors, in exchange for...

South Korea's teachers union on Sunday rejected the labor ministry's ultimatum that called for a rewriting of its bylaws that would prevent fired educators from staying on as members. The moves comes as Seoul said last week that the union must make changes to its rules and warned that failure to do so would result in the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU) losing its rights as a fo...

South Korean households' spending on education declined to a six-year low last year due to an economic downturn and increased government subsidies, data showed Sunday. The ratio of education expenditures to consumption spending in a household with two or more family members reached 12 percent, the lowest level since 2006 when it was 11.5 percent, according to the data by Statistics Korea. House...

A provincial education chief who was probed last month by police for bribery charges was taken to a hospital after an apparent suicide attempt on Tuesday, police said. Kim Jong-seong, chief of the South Chungcheong Office of Education, was rushed to a nearby hospital in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, police said, adding that he is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. The 63...

Korean people picked “love” as their favorite word in English, a survey showed. EBS, a state-run education television network, conducted the survey on 1,210 viewers to see which English words they like to hear and say. Among 700 English words chosen by the respondents, “love” topped the list at 6.12 percent followed by “happy” at 4.55 percent. “Dream,” “family,” “passion,” “believe,” “friend” ...

The education ministry will aim to make high school education free for everyone by 2017 as part of efforts to implement President-elect Park Geun-hye's campaign pledges on education policy, officials said Tuesday. Officials from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology reported the plan to the presidential transition committee during a policy briefing earlier in the day, saying that it ...

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has filed a complaint with the prosecution against 12 private agencies involved in illegal overseas study programs. The accused agencies have been luring students who seek to obtain an overseas degree by allowing them to transfer to foreign colleges without tests, the ministry said Sunday. Under their special admission programs, students study E...