Seoul City to provide 80,000 students with laptops and devices for online school classes
- 4 years ago
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As South Korea readies itself for the new school year... which starts online next week,... the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Cho Hee-yeon says the city will be lending laptops or other devices to 80-thousand students in the capital.
Distribution will begin with high school and middle school seniors as they will be the first to start online classes from next Thursday.
50-thousand of the students are in the low-income bracket.
The education office also announced it will spend 1-point-2 million U.S. dollars to set up Wi-Fi in over one thousand school classrooms.
As South Korea readies itself for the new school year... which starts online next week,... the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, Cho Hee-yeon says the city will be lending laptops or other devices to 80-thousand students in the capital.
Distribution will begin with high school and middle school seniors as they will be the first to start online classes from next Thursday.
50-thousand of the students are in the low-income bracket.
The education office also announced it will spend 1-point-2 million U.S. dollars to set up Wi-Fi in over one thousand school classrooms.