Korea: Establishment of Foreign Language Schools to Be Limited

[Francis Hult]

<http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/> 
The Dong-A Ilbo

 

Establishment of Foreign Language Schools to Be Limited

 

The establishment of new foreign language schools will become more difficult. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development plans to stop its negotiations with Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, where foreign language schools already exist, over adding new foreign language high schools in their regions until next June. Meanwhile, it will toughen its screening procedures for licensing new foreign language schools in other regions such as Gangwon Province, Gwangju, and Ulsan, where foreign language school do not exist.

 

Full story:

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2007103000248

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