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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Many foreign students feel socially isolated, particularly those without any social communities in South Korea, following the coronavirus outbreak. The Ministry of Education reported that there were 160,000 foreign students residing in Korea as of last year, with most still residing in the country despite the onset of the [...]