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South Korea's Population Crisis Forces School Closures
Nearly 50 schools in South Korea are set to fall victim to the country's low birth rate, the world's lowest. Newsweek reached ...
The country closing 50 schools because of its birth rate crisis
Nearly 50 schools in South Korea are closing in 2025 due to a declining student population, a consequence of the country's ...
South Korea prepared to freeze medical student numbers to resolve 13-month dispute
South Korea's education ministry said on Friday it had agreed to freeze the number of new medical students at about 3,000 per ...
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13 months since trainee-doctors’ walkout, South Korea agrees to cap new students to 3,000 per year
In Februray 2024, junior doctors staged protests and boycotted classes after the government proposed to increase admissions ...
South Korea’s AI digital textbooks off to shaky start as semester begins
The Education Ministry revealed that the adoption rate remains at just 33 per cent. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Almost 50 schools across this Asian country to shut down amid worsening birth rate crisis
The data showed that 42 schools across North Gyeongsang Province, located in eastern South ... told The Korea Herald. “This is not just a single ‘birth rate’ issue. The system of education ...
South Korea offers to freeze medical student numbers to resolve 13-month dispute
South Korea's education ministry said on Friday it had agreed to freeze the number of new medical students at about 3,000 per ...
AI digital textbooks off to shaky start as semester begins
As South Korean schools kicked off the new semester on Tuesday, the government's ambitious plan to introduce digital ...