Korean Job Discussion Forums

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Do you see many foreign students studying at Korean universities? Why are there not more foreign students studying in Korean universities?

Korea Has Fewest Foreign Students in OECD

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Probably the same reason Korea is not a popular tourist destination.

freshking · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

Out of about 120 Korean students, I have probably 5 foreign students. All Chinese.

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

I can't speak for everyone, but when I was at the Uni back in the States, most people who were interested in studying abroad were looking at schools in Europe. Obviously the States is a melting pot, but I think there's still a majority who have roots in Europe. People are sometimes more interested in learning about their own cultural heritage than others. There's nothing wrong with that, I think it's only natural that people would prefer to find out about where they come from before they find out where other people come from. Korea's a very small country, so even though there are a lot of Korean-Americans, the majority still are more drawn to France, Germany, the UK, Russia and Eastern Europe, etc.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

An increasing number of Chinese are studying Korean universities.

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Also Korea is not advertised that well. In the UK I've never seen a single tourist commercial, let alone anything about studying there. People can't develop an interest in a country they know nothing about.

Alyallen · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

I've met a few Mongolians, Chinese and Indian students here. I went to school here with a number of Japanese and Chinese students...But I'm not in a big city anyway...

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

There were several hundred studying at Yonsei during spring semester.

burnt-toast · Joined: 03 Sep 2007

Just got back from the UK and I saw plenty of tourism adverts for Korea, on TV, billboards, and buses etc, must be another reason why they are not coming here.

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

Scotticus · Joined: 18 Mar 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/

Check out that list. There's one of your reasons why barely any foreigner students are in Korea, and practically none from the West.

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

We have about 200 Chinese and around 60 westerners here. Small city/town.

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

makemischief · Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Location: Traveling

About 10-15% of my students are foreign, mostly Chinese. I see pockets of other nationalities wandering about campus, but I couldn't give you figures.

It'd be nice to see more of course, but that will come when/if the level of education improves. I'm optimistic in the long run (just my nature), but I don't expect it'll change over night.