A 31-year-old Korean mathematician solved one of the oldest math puzzles and was recognized as one of Scientific American’s top math breakthroughs of 2025. The “Optimality of Gerver's Sofa” study by ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Haesang Chang, Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford School of Medicine: 'We're even using fMRI to find the scientific reasons ...

Fourteen years ago, an American professor traveled to South Korea on sabbatical and came away so impressed with that country’s math textbooks and teaching materials that she decided to have an entire ...

South Korea has some of the highest math scores in the world. On the 2012 PISA math test, the mean score for a South Korean student was 70 points higher than for an American student. Lots of theories ...

It has been identified that the level of academic literacy achievement in South Korea ranks among the top compared to other countries. In particular, the degree of academic anxiety has decreased, and ...

The country achieved a record fourth-place finish at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Young students from South and North Korea, who ranked third and fourth overall, respectively, at this year ...

Math is a hot subject right now—especially in the world of mergers and acquisitions. Last week, DreamBox Learning raised $130 million to grow its online K-8 math software. A few days earlier, that ...

The proportion of 'underachieving' students in 2nd year high school who did not understand even 20% of the mathematics curriculum from last year appears to have decreased compared to the previous year ...

South Korean students ranked the highest in mathematics, and scored highly in reading and science proficiency tests among the nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, ...

In the 2026 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), the highest standard score in Korean is expected to exceed that of math, making Korean scores the key to admission in the regular application round.

The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was generally easier than last year. The highest standard scores dropped by 11 points in Korean and 8 points in Mathematics compared to last year, ...