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 woul...
Korean age reckoningSchool-entry cutoffEducational achievementThis study explores how the age culture and elementary school-entry cutoff in Korea affect the decisions of parents on both birth and school-entry timing for thdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3147710Kim, Taehoon...
South Korea was the first country in the world to provide high-speed internet access from every primary, junior, and high school. The number of students in higher education had risen from 100,000 in 1960 to 1.3 million in 1987, and the proportion of college-age students in higher-education...
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.
South Korea, Japan and other countries place quotas on medical school seats as a way to regulate the number of doctors. Yoon’s government has reduced its quota plan from an additional 2,000 seats to the current 1,500, but doctors groups have said that is not good enough. The walkou...
2013. "Do Private Tutoring Expenditures Raise Academic Performance? Evidence from Middle School Students in South Korea." Asian Economic Journal 27 (1): 59-83.D. Ryu and C. Kang. Do Private Tutoring Expenditures Raise Academic Performance? Evidence from Middle School Students in South korea. ...
In 2023, there were over 20,000 schools including kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools in South Korea.
Recent reforms of high school education in Korea have focused on transforming the uniform and standardized system into a deregulated and diversified system that has an emphasis on school choice and competition. Situating the high school diversification policy in the context of the recent controversy of...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Sunday reported 34 additional cases of the coronavirus amid a spate of infections linked to clubgoers, as President Moon Jae-in urged calm saying “there’s no reason to stand still out of fear."