{"id":27,"date":"2004-11-24T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=27"},"modified":"2005-09-16T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T10:13:38","slug":"korean-university-to-require-passage-of-character-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/korean-university-to-require-passage-of-character-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean university to require passage of character test"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>November 24, 2004 ? Korea University said yesterday that a test on Chinese characters will become a graduation requirement for students entering this year. The students can take the test at any time during their stay at the school.<br \/>\n&#8220;China has become an economic giant, but our students are less and less competent in the language,&#8221; Kim Chang-bae, education support manager of Korea University, said. &#8220;Proficiency in Chinese characters is essential for understanding the Korean language.&#8221; He said large business groups, such as Samsung and SK, have recently begun looking at Chinese character proficiency in their employment criteria.<br \/>\nThe first test, on which students must score a minimum of 60 percent, is scheduled to take place Saturday, and the university is now taking applications. Four tests are planned next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 24, 2004 ? Korea University said yesterday that a test on Chinese characters will become a graduation requirement for students entering this year. The students can take the test at any time during their stay at the school. &#8220;China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/korean-university-to-require-passage-of-character-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-korea","category-korean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}