{"id":63501,"date":"2025-08-27T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/27\/mobile-phones-banned-in-south-korean-school-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:16:39","slug":"mobile-phones-banned-in-south-korean-school-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/27\/mobile-phones-banned-in-south-korean-school-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phones Banned In South Korean School Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> South Korean parliament has passed a Bill banning the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms in the country from March 2026, when the next school year begins.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 163 lawmakers present in the National Assembly on Wednesday, 115 members reportedly voted in favour of the Bill. <\/p>\n<p>The legislation is the result of a bi-partisan approach to battle smartphone addiction among children and teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows the impact of heavy social media use among the youngsters, which is affecting students&#8217; academic performance and <span class=\"landLinks\">health<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions are already in place in countries like Italy, the Netherlands, China, Finland and France for the use of smartphones in schools. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Mobile Phones Banned In South Korean School Classrooms<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-27 11:16:39<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean parliament has passed a Bill banning the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms in the country from March 2026, when the next school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1563089145-599997674d42?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}