In South Korea, attending school at the elementary school level is free of charge in its public education, beginningat the age of 6. Prior to entering primary school, nearly every child attends some form of preschool and kindergarten.
The robust governance and coordination at both the national and local levels are vital contributors to the success of South Korea’s education system. South Korea’s Ministry of Education assumes a pivotal role in formulating policy, implementing reform, and ensuring the efficient operation of the e...
By June 2023, the government decided that the Korean age system would no longer be permitted to be used on official documents like medical and legal documents in South Korea. This new age system was established to reduce confusion in counting age by adopting the same system used in the rest ...
Besides the 'Korean age' system and the internationally recognized means of tabulating one's age according to birthdays, South Korea also has a third method for calculating age. The process involves adding another year to a person's age on New Year's Day, regardless of their actual birthday,...
In 2024, the unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 29 in South Korea stood at 5.9 percent. The youth unemployment rate in South Korea has been declining since 2020. Unemployment rate of people aged 15 to 29 years old in South Korea from 2000 to 2024 ...
As an increasing number of incoming older adults in the future will be characterised by higher levels of education, it is argued that Senior Universities should take action to develop new programmes and learning approaches, with a renewed focus on active ageing and wider social participation....
Another age system exists in South Korea for conscription, school entrance and calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke: a person's age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on Jan. 1. Officials said that method wou...
In 2024, around 93.9 percent of teenagers aged between 15 and 17 years attended high school in South Korea, a slight increase compared to previous years.
In 2024, South Korea's unemployment rate reached 2.7 percent. The highest rate in the last three decades was recorded in 2020.
South Korea’s LCCs rule the skies, exceeding Asia-Pacific Average Kanchan Nath Jan 30, 2025 The seating proportion of low-cost carriers (LCCs) in South Korea’s aviation market has far surpassed the average of the Asia-Pacific region, according to an industry report, reflecting the… Re...