Hong Kong-based Anchor Equity puts Korea's Danbi Education up for sale

Hong Kong-based Anchor Equity puts Korea's Danbi Education up for sale

Anchor Equity Partners, a Hong Kong-based private equity firm, is putting its majority stake in South Korea’s top children’s smart educa...

Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education

Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education

South Korean consumers exhibited recessionary spending behavior in March, cutting expenditures across nearly all sectors, except healthcare and educ...

Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education

Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education

South Korean consumers exhibited recessionary spending behavior in March, cutting expenditures across nearly all sectors, except healthcare and educ...

S.Korea provides financial education for foreigners in bank

S.Korea provides financial education for foreigners in bank

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) launched financial education for foreign residents at specialized bank branches for foreigners. T...

Hyundai opens climate change response edu Center in Vietnam

Hyundai opens climate change response edu Center in Vietnam

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. said on Thursday that it has established a climate change response education center in Thanh Hoa Province, Vie...

Pulley Campus, Yonsei Univ. to co-work on educational AI services

Pulley Campus, Yonsei Univ. to co-work on educational AI services

Freewheelin, which operates the AI courseware Pulley Campus for university education, said on Friday that it signed an industry-academia cooperation...

Cosmax, China's Jiangnan Univ. to cooperate joint research

Cosmax, China's Jiangnan Univ. to cooperate joint research

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), said on Thursday that it signed a strategic memoran...

Woongjin reborn as IT solution company beyond education firm

Woongjin reborn as IT solution company beyond education firm

Woongjin Co., better known as the home-study workbook brand Woongjin ThinkBig in South Korea, has been transforming into an information technology s...

SK Telecom, SoftBank to collaborate for SV measurement

SK Telecom, SoftBank to collaborate for SV measurement

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cooperation in measuring social value...

Private education spending in S.Korea hits new record high

Private education spending in S.Korea hits new record high

South Koreans’ spending on private education hit a new record high of 27.1 trillion won ($20 billion) in 2023, as the government’s annou...

Mathpresso throws down the gauntlet in US edtech market

Mathpresso throws down the gauntlet in US edtech market

Mathpresso Inc., a South Korean startup operating the Google-backed learning app Qanda, has released its first study app catering to US university s...

LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund

LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund

South Korea's LG Innotek announced on Friday that it held the 2024 Win-win Growth Partnership Day on the previous day.LG Innotek signed the 2024 Fai...

Korea needs population growth for sustainability: World Bank chief

Korea needs population growth for sustainability: World Bank chief

World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Thursday that South Korea needs to boost population growth by easing the fierce competition in education and...

Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023

Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023

South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Friday that the distribution volume of Whalebook has tripled compa...

AI to replace high-paid, highly educated doctors, CPAs: BOK

AI to replace high-paid, highly educated doctors, CPAs: BOK

Artificial intelligence poses the biggest threat to high-paid, highly educated professionals such as medical doctors, accountants and engineering te...

ESTsoft, LG Energy sign AI human education program contract

ESTsoft, LG Energy sign AI human education program contract

South Korea's AI service specialist company ESTsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday it has signed an education content supply contract with LG Energy Sol...

LG Uplus invests $7.4 mn in S.Korean edu-tech startup

LG Uplus invests $7.4 mn in S.Korean edu-tech startup

South Korea’s No. 3 wireless carrier LG Uplus Corp. on Tuesday said it will make an equity investment of some 10 billion won ($7.4 million) in...

Samsung commits $3.7 mn to chipmaking education at UT Austin

Samsung commits $3.7 mn to chipmaking education at UT Austin

Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $3.7 million to University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering to educate talent and boo...

KT to hold AI coding lectures at universities

KT to hold AI coding lectures at universities

South Korea’s KT Corp. is expanding operations of its artificial intelligence (AI) coding education platform AI Codiny.The company on Sunday s...

S.Korea to deliver food safety management skill to Thai, Malaysian officials

S.Korea to deliver food safety management skill to Thai, Malaysian officials

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of South Korea announced on Friday that it will conduct an invited training program for food safety officials f...

Ourhome strikes catering deal with Vietnam's FPT Education

Ourhome strikes catering deal with Vietnam's FPT Education

A prominent South Korean food service provider Ourhome Ltd. disclosed on Monday that it has penned a memorandum of understanding with FPT Education,...

KT expands healthcare business in Vietnam

KT expands healthcare business in Vietnam

South Korea’s telecom service provider KT Corp. has recently organized a collaborative seminar on digital health alongside Hanoi Medical Unive...

S.Korea's Riiid enters Brazilian public education market

S.Korea's Riiid enters Brazilian public education market

South Korean AI-powered edtech firm Riiid will enter the Brazilian public education market. The company announced on Wednesday that it has signed a ...

LG Electronics targets EdTech market in US

LG Electronics targets EdTech market in US

LG Electronics Inc. is showcasing a lineup of acclaimed products designed for the education sector at the International Society for Technology in Ed...

S.Korean Army opens Future & Innovation Research Center at KAIST

S.Korean Army opens Future & Innovation Research Center at KAIST

South Korean army announced that the Korea Army Research Center for Future & Innovation, a defense-related advanced science and technology resea...

LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families

LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families

South Korea's LS Group said on Thursday that it has partnered with a domestic non-government organization (NGO) Cooperation and Participation in Ove...

Yoon's English School, Thai Edupark to cooperate in local education market

Yoon's English School, Thai Edupark to cooperate in local education market

South Korean English education company, Yoon's English School, has signed a business agreement with Thai education firm, EduPark, to expand its pres...

POSCO E&C supports construction workforce development in Argentina

POSCO E&C supports construction workforce development in Argentina

POSCO E&C (formerly POSCO Engineering & Construction), the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, announced on Wednesday that it ha...

Eugene Corp. develops concrete production simulation system

Eugene Corp. develops concrete production simulation system

South Korea's Eugene Corporation, which specializes in ready-mixed concrete and construction material distribution, announced on Wednesday that it h...

CJ undertakes educational programs for ethnic minorities in Vietnam

CJ undertakes educational programs for ethnic minorities in Vietnam

South Korea's CJ Group announced on Wednesday that it will undertake a "Second Girls Education Project" for the Vietnamese ethnic minority.The proje...

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