At the heart of the Korean education system is an intense focus on academic excellence and rigorous discipline. This approach stems from a deep-rooted cultural belief in the value of education as a ...

Twelve students from the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Education & Human Development, traveled to South Korea this spring for a week-long immersive educational exchange at the Korea National ...

Childhood in today’s South Korea is no longer a sanctuary of play and wonder – it has become a training ground for survival in an academic war. The so-called “7-year-old exam” is now a growing trend, ...

Major South Korean universities have begun rejecting applicants involved in school violence, marking an unprecedented shift ...

This year’s CSAT is expected to have a lower raw score cutoff for Grade 1 in Korean and Mathematics compared to last year’s CSAT, as it was more difficult. The proportion of Grade 1 in English, which ...

Korea’s education system is at a turning point, facing both a declining student population and the pressures of a highly competitive academic environment, with Education Minister Choi Kyo-jin calling ...

“My classroom is dark and scary,” said a 23-year-old elementary school teacher in a request to the school, asking it to improve the room. In this dim, unventilated classroom, students would raise hell ...

The administrator in chief of Korea University, Kwon Mun Ju, is sitting in the middle of a row of empty armchairs under framed pictures of Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, and his father, the ...