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	<title>Fulbright U.S. Education Center &#187; Korea&#8217;s Education Sector</title>
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	<description>Issues in U.S.- Korea Educational Exchange</description>
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		<title>Universities Are Charging Too Much Money for Little Benefit</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2011/06/universities-are-charging-too-much-money-for-little-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2011/06/universities-are-charging-too-much-money-for-little-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yumk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of four-year universities charging annual tuition fee over W8 million increased from 34 in 2010 to 50 this year (US$1=W1,069). Tuition at public universities rose 0.6 percent over the last year to W4.43 million, and at private universities it was up 2.29 percent to W7.69 million. Korea University&#8217;s medical school charges a hefty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steps Needed for Korea to Woo More Diverse Foreign Students</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/07/steps-needed-for-korea-to-woo-more-diverse-foreign-students/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/07/steps-needed-for-korea-to-woo-more-diverse-foreign-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For U.S. Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Education Cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn, Byung-man has stressed the importance of diversifying the nationalities of foreign students coming to Korea for study.  As reported in the Korea Times, Minister Ahn noted that achieving this goal would have several positive effects, including the cultivation of excellent human resources overseas, the creation of economic added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unqualified&#8221; Foreign Students Banned From Government Scholarship Program</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/05/unqualified-foreign-students-banned-from-government-scholarship-program/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/05/unqualified-foreign-students-banned-from-government-scholarship-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 23:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For U.S. Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholarships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Korean government has sent official notices to Korean embassies around the world mandating them to scrap their customary practice of picking &#8220;unqualified&#8221; students for the state scholarship program.  The government has often accepted children of foreign ranking government officials even though they fall short of the minimum standards, a practice believed to help boost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office Workers View English as a Deciding Factor in Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/05/office-workers-view-english-as-a-deciding-factor-in-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/05/office-workers-view-english-as-a-deciding-factor-in-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 23:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[English Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[For U.S. Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chosun Ilbo has an interesting report by the job portal Job Korea of 2,042 salaried workers.   The survey focused on their regrets during the economic recession.  27.2 percent picked poor English skills, 25.1 percent chose lack of professional skills or licenses, and 15.3 percent answered lacking a degree from a prestigious university.  Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOEFL Scores no Longer to be Decisive in College Entrance</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/04/toefl-scores-no-longer-to-be-decisive-in-college-entrance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/04/toefl-scores-no-longer-to-be-decisive-in-college-entrance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admissions Policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TOEFL, TOEIC and other English test scores will not be used as major elements in the process of admitting students to universities under the admissions officer system.  As reported in The Korea Times, this is part of new guidelines announced by the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE).  The new policy is in line with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government to Relax Restrictions on Overseas University Campuses</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/03/government-to-relax-restrictions-on-overseas-university-campuses/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/03/government-to-relax-restrictions-on-overseas-university-campuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Chosun Ilbo today, it will become easier for Korean universities to establish overseas campuses under a government plan to absorb demand for study abroad.  An official said the government will lift restrictions for overseas campuses of universities within this month and is preparing to support not only educational institutions, but also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student-Teacher Ratio Drops as Korea Ages</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/03/teacher-student-ratio-drops-as-korea-ages/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/03/teacher-student-ratio-drops-as-korea-ages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics Korea  has released a report showing that the student-to-teacher-ratio in Korean elementary schools dropped below 20 to 1 last year, while the proportion of those aged 65 and over to the entire population rose to 10.7 percent.  As reported in The Chosun Ilbo, the figures confirm the aging trend and low birthrate in Korea. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>South Korea&#8217;s Continuing Investment in Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/south-koreas-continuing-investment-in-education/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/south-koreas-continuing-investment-in-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korea rose from the ashes of the Korean war to its current status as an advanced, industrialized economy on the strength of hard work and technology development.  However, most analyses of Korea&#8217;s development over the past half century point to education as a key.  The World Bank&#8217;s extensive study of Korea&#8217;s emergence as a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Students Trust Hagwon Teachers More than Those in Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/students-trust-hagwon-teachers-more-than-those-in-public-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/students-trust-hagwon-teachers-more-than-those-in-public-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private institutes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Joongang Daily has an interesting article summarizing the results of a recent study by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI).  KEDI surveyed 6,600 students at 116 high schools across the country who also attend a hagwon (private institute) and asked them to rate hagwon and public school teachers in fourteen different dimensions.  Students were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown on Illegal Tutoring Ineffective</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/crackdown-on-illegal-tutoring-ineffective/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/crackdown-on-illegal-tutoring-ineffective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea's Education Sector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Korea Times is carrying a series of articles on private tutoring in South Korea.  Today&#8217;s article focuses on the difficulty of enforcing laws against such tutoring.   According to an official at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, &#8220;It is hard to control tutoring due to privacy matters, especially when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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