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Foreign Students Now Exceed 20% at Dozens of Korean Universities, Led by Surge in Vietnamese Enrollment

SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are becoming markedly more international, with foreign students now accounting for more than 20 percent of enrollment at a growing number of institutions, according to a new government-affiliated study released Thursday. The Korea Immigration Policy Institute, analyzing data from the Korean Educational Development Institute, found that [...]

Foreign Students Struggle with Housing Contracts

SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign students are struggling with housing contracts, but there isn’t enough support to assist them. A Vietnamese student at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, ran into a series of difficulties last December when he was signing a sharehouse contract. The Korean words for monthly [...]

Foreign Students Most Likely to Overstay Their Visas: Data

SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With the number of undocumented foreigners who have failed to return to their home countries after their visas have expired reaching over 410,000, the largest proportion of them are study-abroad students and those studying the Korean language, data showed Thursday. The Ministry of Justice said that there were 137,779 [...]

S. Korea to Issue High-tech Internship Visa for Foreign Students

SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign students from outstanding overseas universities will be allowed to work as interns at high-tech companies and research institutes in South Korea under a new visa program intended to help strengthen corporate competitiveness, the Ministry of Justice said Friday. The ministry said it will introduce the so-called “high-tech field [...]

University Adopts Speech-to-Text Translation Tool to Help Foreign Students

DAEJEON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A local college is garnering attention thanks to its adoption of a speech-to-text translation tool for lectures targeting foreign students who lack competency in Korean. Mokwon University in Daejeon is using this tool on a trial basis. If users speak into the computer mouse-shaped translation tool after pushing the [...]

Foreign Students Urged to Finish COVID-19 Vaccination Before Arrival

SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign students wanting to study at a university in South Korea this year will be asked to complete vaccination against COVID-19 before entering the country, the Ministry of Education said Thursday. Announcing measures to prevent the spread of omicron and other coronavirus variants from overseas to local communities, the [...]

Omicron Fears Grip Universities Due to Suspected Infections of Foreign Students

SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears of omicron are spreading on several university campuses in Seoul, school officials said Monday, as some of their foreign students are suspected of having contracted the highly contagious COVID-19 variant. One foreign student each from Seoul National University (SNU), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and Kyunghee University [...]

High Public Health Insurance Fees May Discourage Foreigners from Studying in S. Korea: Study

SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — There are concerns that high health insurance fees imposed on foreign students could hinder government efforts to promote study abroad programs in South Korea. Professor Kim Myeong-kwang from Daegu University published a paper this Monday that claimed some 150,000 foreign students currently living in the country have been paying [...]

Foreign Students Criticize Mandatory Health Insurance Premiums

SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is beginning to spark over new health insurance rules that impose monthly premiums of 40,000 won (US$35.04) on foreign students, starting this month. Some students from Southeast Asia began to consider giving up on education because of the new health insurance premiums, while others have made illegal attempts [...]

Seoul Education Office to Give Emergency Virus Relief to Young Foreign Nationals

SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced Monday it will give out emergency relief funds to young foreign nationals in the city to alleviate the economic burden of the new coronavirus. The new measure, with a budget of around 1.74 billion won (US$1.51 million), will cover some 5,100 elementary [...]