Awardee: Kim Seung HyunKorea International School, Jeju Campus“Is your phone glued to your hand?” As a teenager, this was a question that Amy Kim heard often. However, as president of the biology club at Korea International School (KIS) it raised a deeper concern: using a cellphone isn’t just a distraction to students, it can also be a very real health risk as well, due to microorganisms that can be transferred back and forth between students’ hands and their phones. In fact, according to scient

Awardee: Han Go EunHankuk Academy of Foreign StudiesHan Goeun has long been interested in the plight of disadvantaged peoples, both in Korea and throughout the world. In 2015, she was a member of her middle school’s Model UN club. As part of her research for this club, she read ‘Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry’, by Jean Ziegler, and was struck by the harrowing descriptions of people without steady access to food. As a result, she developed an abiding concern in the lives and w

Awardee: Hur Su Jung CheongShim International AcademyWhen Hur Su Jung moved to Seoul from Georgia, USA after fifth grade, her parents encouraged her to reconnect to her roots. Her experiences, instead, lead her into sense of limbo between her ethnic Korean background and American schooling. Once a source of worry, this proved invaluable when she began volunteering at Seongnam-si Multicultural Family Support Center, a program run by the Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. Through-out m

 Awardee: Chang Seo Won Korea International School, Jeju CampusLike many of his friends in the Korean education system, 18-year-old Seowon Chang always had a strong interest in math, physics and design, but found it hard to apply and develop these skills because of his lack of confidence in speaking English. However since moving from his native Songdo to Korea International School (KIS) in Jeju 18 months ago — where all classes are taught in English — Seowon has discovered a new language and a w

The Herald founded the Herald Junior Project Award this year for students who suggest a vision for the future and achieve outstanding competence while carrying out challenging tasks. The award is intended to empower students to become future global leaders. Today’s youths will lead in a borderless society that cuts across races and cultures and head diverse organizations including government, NGOs, international organizations, and profit-making corporations and serve the members of those organiz

Awardee: Cho Yun BinNorth London & Collegiate School JejuWhen the librarian at Jeju North London Collegiate School asked Cho Yunbin to be an intern at the 2017 Jeju Peace Forum, Yunbin immediately got to work. The international forum discussing peace on the Korean peninsula brought together some of the biggest political minds - Korean Ministers, international human rights judges, and former US Vice President, Al Gore.Over the course of three days, Yunbin shuttled around attendees and was asked t

Awardee: Ji Hyeuk JuHanyoung Foreign Language High SchoolHyeuk Ju moved to Moscow when she was five, where she was able to experience different cultures and encounter various languages. Hyeuk Ju had to learn English, French, and Russian at a very young age, before she even mastered her mother tongue. When she came back to Korea, she found the classes were extremely difficult. However, with the help of teachers and friends, in time Hyeuk Ju became as comfortable with Korean as she was with Englis

For students in South Korea wishing to advance to universities in the US, Jay’s Uhak Review seeks to help them achieve the best results though teamwork. Jay’s Uhak Review is an education consulting institute that assists students with the admission process, targeting US Ivy League and medical and dental universities.  (Jay's Uhak Review)Established in 2000, the institute runs detailed admission programs for high school students, supervising their school records and offering special opportunities

Ajou University Graduate School of Business offers courses that are available via online and in-class lectures, which the school says caters to the needs and convenience of office workers looking to study and is in keeping with the trend of the “fourth industrial revolution.”Ajou University was the first in the country to introduce the so-called “blended course” on 2000. As of 2018, 40 offline lectures and 30 online lectures are available each semester, making it possible for students to study a

Celebrating Teacher’s Day on Tuesday, Lee Seo-hee felt a sense of awkwardness receiving a paper carnation from a student, as he has often been a troublemaker who would never listen to her.“I know I have to embrace all students, but still it is difficult for me to deal with students when they often tease me and do not respect me as their teacher,” Lee, who has been teaching in an elementary school for three years, told The Korea Herald. In her career, she has experienced some cases of sexual rema

The State University of New York Korea established a development advisory committee to make improvements as a leading institution in the age of the “fourth industrial revolution,” the school said Thursday. The 13-member Development Advisory Committee led by former Health and Welfare Minister Lim Chae-min, aims to lay the groundwork for SUNY Korea to become the first US university in Korea to lead in innovative education for Asia, the school said.  Participants pose at the opening ceremony of SUN

The economics department at Seoul National University is expected to hire its first female Korean professor in its 72-year history.In posting a job opening for an economics professor last month, the university’s College of Social Sciences said only women are eligible to apply.The college said this was due to the Education Officials Act that calls for policies to provide equal opportunities for both genders in appointing faculty members.Currently, all of the 35 professors at SNU’s economics depar

The Ministry of Education plans to announce new guidelines for high school history textbooks in about two months, its officials said Wednesday, in what will likely stir another heated debate over some of the politically controversial events.The ministry released a draft proposal Wednesday made by its affiliated research institute on writing guidelines to be used for middle school and high school students starting 2020.The draft will be reviewed by a committee made up of government officials, edu

Less than half of parents in South Korea are pleased with the quality of teaching their children are getting from school, the lowest among the countries surveyed, an international poll showed Tuesday. Forty-three percent of 1,000 respondents with kids aged 4-18 said they find the education provided to their children "fairly good" or "very good," according to the Global Parents Survey by the Varkey Foundation. It is the lowest level in 29 countries surveyed for the in-depth research conducted thr

Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education will help equip all schools in its city with air purifiers, in order to improve air quality within school facilities in the face of worsening fine dust concentration in Korea. Every kindergarten, elementary, middle, high and special schools will be included in the new decision that was announced Monday. The education office will use 10 billion won ($9.3 million) of the budget to install air purifiers and also attach an air filtration layer to its existing