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South Korea approves 76 AI textbooks for schools from March 2025

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Source: Korea JoongAng DailyAlso reported by The Korea Times

South Korea’s Ministry of Education approved 76 AI-based digital textbooks out of 146 submitted on 29 November 2024, for English, maths and informatics. Schools could use them from March 2025 in grades 3 and 4 of primary school and the first year of middle and high school, with social studies and science delayed to 2027.

Why it matters

Korean publishers and schools prepared to put AI textbooks into core subjects, while parents and teachers raised concerns about screen time, literacy and cost.

When
29 Nov 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0145
Who
Ministry of Education (South Korea); Lee Ju-ho

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Korea JoongAng Daily and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Korea JoongAng Daily

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0145: “South Korea approves 76 AI textbooks for schools from March 2025.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Nov 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-ai-digital-textbooks-approved-2024-11/ (source: Korea JoongAng Daily).

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