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[tabbyfoof]

I heard a rumor that Yonsei got in trouble for not getting proper visas for those Nobel Laureates that visited in September. Did anyone else hear that? If so, what's the story? Were they punished? Was the story in any online newspapers (Korean or English-language)? Did those guys get expelled like those two guys from The Host?

[PRagic]

Yonsei and their international programs. Gotta love 'em. I remember being instructed to pay my tuition directly into an Underwood account when I was a student there. I asked if there was a standard university account, but I was told to just put the money in the Underwood account. Wish I still had my deposit receipt on that one! I was young, so I figured, when in Rome!

Has anyone bothered to look at the faculty of their 'international' programs? I don't think they have hired a foreigner yet, outside of perhaps the stray English teacher to get Korean students up to snuff. I'm talking about their international programs, NOT the English teachers in the English Department or FLI.

Sadly, they are supposed to be the most 'international' of Korea's universities. Personally, I think Korea University has been doing a better job in the internationalizing department, although their employment conditions for their run-of-the-mill English teachers is deplorable.

[tabbyfoof]

Thanks for the comment. Looks like they're up to all sorts of things. Still, I'd really like to know if that specific Nobel thing is true.

[jaganath69]

Interesting indeed. The comments here are the last nail in the coffin of my plans to do a PhD there.

[tabbyfoof]

[PRagic]

But still...why would you want to do a Ph.D. at any Korean university? It won't do you any good in Korea, and it sure won't do you any good elsewhere.

[K-in-C]