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Education costs, scholarships and government support. Eligibility rules and the steps that are easiest to miss.

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Supporting Your Child

Schools Can Now Recommend That Your Child Receive Counselling — The Procedure That Took Effect in May 2026, and What "Three Times" Means

A principal's counselling recommendation and urgent support took effect in May 2…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-22 Education Costs

The Second Round of Korea's National Scholarship Closes at 6pm on 9 September — Two Relief Applications and Two C-Grade Allowances Are Not the Same Thing

Korea's national scholarship second round closes 9 September. Grade rules and th…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-21 Government Support

Student Health Screening Covers Primary Years 1 and 4, Middle Year 1 and High Year 1 — Clinics, 30-Day Results and the Health Record

Korea screens primary years 1 and 4, middle year 1 and high year 1; results in 3…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-19 Government Support

Special Education Eligibility Starts With Diagnosis and Assessment — 30 Days From Referral, Two Weeks to the Notice

The procedure and deadlines set by the Act on Special Education for Persons with…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-17 Supporting Your Child

Appealing a School Violence Measure Means Moving Within 90 Days - Administrative Appeal, Litigation and How Long It Stays on the Record

Appeals against a deliberation committee measure are no longer a re-examination …

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-16 Education Costs

Korea's Income-Contingent Student Loan Starts Repaying at 18.98 Million Won — the 28.51 Million Salary Line and Two-Year Deferral

For the 2025 income year the repayment threshold is an income amount of 18.98 mi…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-15 Supporting Your Child

Before Your Child Starts a Part-Time Job — 7 Hours a Day, 10 p.m., and the Consent Form the Law Requires

Youth part-time work in Korea starts at 15, caps at 7 hours a day and 35 a week,…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-14 Supporting Your Child

When Your Child Says They Want to Quit School — The Deliberation Period Required Before a Withdrawal Form

The school-dropout deliberation period under Article 54 of the Enforcement Decre…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-14 Supporting Your Child

Missing school for a family trip — what makes off-campus learning count as attendance, and the report deadline

Submitting the form is not what makes the days count. Advance application, the p…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-13 Supporting Your Child

When a child says they do not want to go to school — early response, attendance and counselling routes

School refusal often appears as genuine physical symptoms. This covers how to te…

Oh Yu-jin·2026-08-12 Education Costs

There are two kinds of student loan — standard repayment and income-contingent repayment, and how to choose

Both carry the same 1.7 per cent rate; what differs is when repayment starts. Th…

Oh Yu-jin·2026-08-11 Supporting Your Child

Parent-teacher conference week — what to ask in fifteen minutes

You have about ten real minutes. Look up what NEIS already shows and ask about w…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-09 Supporting Your Child

Getting sleep back on schedule two weeks before term — move wake-up time first

Pull the wake-up time forward 15–30 minutes a day and get daylight within 30 min…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-08 Government Support

Obtaining the school record — the viewing copy and the submission copy are different documents

There are three routes: the government portal, the school and self-service kiosk…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-07 Government Support

How much comes back when you leave a private academy — the refund rules set by the enforcement decree

Before tuition begins the refund is full; afterwards it turns on how much of the…

Lim Su-bin·2026-08-03