Students have always needed to use cars, but they face a realistic problem: lack of money to buy or rent a car. Sometimes they fail to rent a car just by a small amount of money. To solve these kinds

An increased number of universities is implementing childbirth and child care take-off semester system which allows students to take off additional four semesters. Students were only allowed to take s

Following the recent freshmen orientation crisis in Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS), other universities recognized the need to place more importance on safety in their orientations for fres

Numerous universities have changed their credit system regulations starting from this spring semester. The changes include marking the retake courses, issuing separate reports without F credits and ab

An increased number of universities is implementing “start-up taking-off semester system,” which allows students to take off a maximum of four semesters in contrast to the previous rule th

The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced its University Structural Reform plan on Nov. 11. According to this plan, the MOE will evaluate and classify universities according to five levels: highest, e

With the student union elections prevalent in mid-November among universities, campuses were filled with voices of candidates running for student union elections. However, a number of universities onl

One of the most important projects for student unions in universities is asking the school to lower tuition fees and increase scholarship benefits. Instead of only demanding these things from the scho

As intellectual property is becoming more important, the Korea Patent Attorneys Association, WIPS (Worldwide Intellectual Property Service, a professional global intellectual property corporation in K

Starting with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which began its Open Course Ware (OCW) in October 2002, other universities have followed the trend of providing a source of learning by opening

With the rapid innovation of digital technology, tablet PC users are continuously increasing and university students are no exception. It is easy to find students using their own tablet PCs such as th

Nowadays, although Information Technology (IT) equipment is increasingly becoming commonplace and often deemed a necessity among university students, the rapidly changing technological landscape prese

Recently there have been talks of controversy regarding the establishment of the university council in private universities. The conflicts are about some private universities not having created a univ

The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science, ICT (Information & Communication Technology) and Future Planning (MSIP), and the Small and Medium Business Administration announced the University S

Among university students in Korea today, 12.2 percent of female students are estimated to drink over 10 glasses of alcohol in one sitting.The Korea Public Health Association (KPHA) recently conducted

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Aug. 29 that it would financially support economically disadvantaged university students through a low interest student loan and th

Universities are promoting smoke-free environment on campus in accordance to the Korean government’s newly enacted law: the National Health Promotion Act. The new regulation went into effect on

The youth unemployment problem has been getting worse as the rate of unemployed youth marked 8.4 percent in the first half of this year. Amid the current unemployment problem, university students&rsqu

Following the recent national energy crisis, it has been brought to people’s attention that universities have been overusing electricity. As an attempt to reduce the usage of power, universities

The Ministry of Education announced the “2013 Education Policy Analysis Plan” on May 22. The most notable change made in the new plan is the launching of qualitative evaluation, as the pre