Posted : 2021-04-19 17:35
Updated : 2021-04-19 17:35
Students, after sitting their national College Scholastic Ability Test on Dec. 3, 2020, leave their testing site. Yonhap
Nearly one out of three middle and high school students in South Korea mulled suicide over the past year due to academic burden, a survey showed Monday.
In a poll of 5,669 middle and high school students conducted by the state-run National Youth Policy Institute from July to October last year, 27 percent said they had thought of taking their own life within the last year. By gender, 35 percent of female students said so, compared with 19.6 percent of male students.
Korea needs better support for multiracial children in rural areas
Posted : 2021-04-19 15:52
Updated : 2021-04-19 16:59
Students with multicultural backgrounds attend a foreign language and culture class at an elementary school in Seoul in this file photo. Korea Times file
By Lee Hyo-jin
Tailored support measures are needed for children from multiracial backgrounds living in rural areas, as they showed a lower level of psychosocial adaptation compared to those in large cities, according to a study by the National Youth Policy Institute released Monday.
Such findings were included in the results of an 11-year-long longitudinal study conducted on school life, family environment, social adaptation and bicultural identity of multiracial children nationwide.
March 9, 2021 | by Kardelen Koldas 15
Naoki Kihata ’22, Jordyn Kim ’22, and Keerthi Martyn ’22 have been awarded prestigious Davis Projects for Peace grants for projects in South Korea and Haiti.
This summer, the $10,000 awards will take Kihata and Kim to South Korea, where they’ll initiate a CCAK-like mentorship program aiming to address mental health burdens created by the pressures of the education system. Martyn will travel to Haiti, where he’ll work to strengthen the curriculum of a local college for social work by incorporating arts and art therapy.
Their projects are two of the 125 winners for 2021.
“We are thrilled,” said Kim, a mathematical sciences and biology double major and a chemistry minor.