Make an application for the Global Korea Scholarships (GKS) Graduate Program for International Students. The Korean Government’s Global Korea Scholarships program invites applications from international students from more than 154 territories worldwide to fill the 2,200 grant positions.
Candidates are required to make an application and strategize to study for a graduate-level course, which may be a master’s or doctoral degree, or to study in Korea.
The Global Korea Scholarship GKS nomination council, the Korean consulate in the nation where you handle citizenships, and the NIIED-assigned Korean institution supervise the request, assessment, and choosing processes.
So, the first stage of your request is to apply and successfully merit the 1st round of selection supervised by the Korean consulate where you have citizenship or NIIED-assigned Korean institutions. There exist two fundamental structures of application for the GKS scholarship course:
- Consulate Track: The standard procedure for this request requires candidates to pass through the first choosing procedure placed by the Korean consulate of their nation of origin. 800 grants are provided under the consulate track.
- Institutional Track: The standard procedure for this request requires candidates to pass through the first choosing procedure placed by their assigned institution. Under the institutional track, 1,400 grants are provided.
Advantages
- You will obtain a flight fare stipend for an economy-class ticket to South Korea.
- Having arrived in South Korea, you will get a Settlement Stipend value of $149.90.
- You will qualify for a monthly stipend of $749.29 for Master’s and Doctoral and $1,123.90 for research courses.
- Assigned candidates will be qualified for Medical Insurance protection value of $149.86
- There is a language Internship payment, which is as follows:
- NIIED: $599.47
- Institutional: amount that surpasses $600
- You will acquire protection for your tuition payments, worth about $3,176,313 for NIIED Track and more than $3,176,313 with the University Track admission fee.
- Korean skill Grant value of $75
- You will also be qualified for a Research Support Fee value of $158 to $180.
- Students will as well be qualified for a Thesis Printing Fee value of $374.72 to $599.55
- After concluding your studies, you will get a completion Grants value of $750.00
Qualification
The Citizenship conditions for candidates include:
- You are required to be a national of an NIIED-assigned nation that has been requested to participate in the GKS grant program.
- Neither the candidate nor their guardians or parents are required to hold dual citizenship, whereby one is a Korean.
- Abroad Korean candidates who hold Japanese nationality and make an application through the Consulate track are qualified to do so if their parents hold permanent resident tickets within Japan while holding Korean nationality.
Applicants program conditions for application include:
- Candidates for the Master’s course must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent by the time they apply.
- If making an application for a doctoral degree, you are required to have accomplished a Master’s program or its equivalent at the time you are making an application.
- Candidates for Research Courses are required to get a request from one of the partner institutions and are required to satisfy the measures below:
- Postdoctoral Research Course: You must handle a doctoral program as of February 28, 2024.
- Professor Exchange Course: You are required to hold a master’s certification or higher and need to be tutoring at an institution as a professor
- Program for Education, culture, science, international cooperation professionals: is required to handle a master’s program or higher and is required to be a professional in an area of culture, education, science, or international cooperation.
The age conditions for candidates include:
- You are required to be below the age of 40 for Master’s and doctoral course programs.
- You may make an application if you are an academic professor who is under 45 as of September 1, 2024, and handles the nationality of one of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipients who are qualified to make an application.
Grades and past performance
- You must have retained the cumulative grade score average equivalent to or higher than any of the listed below from your past academics.
- I have retained a CGPA of 2.64 – 4.0, 2.80 – 4.3, 2.91 – 4.5, and 3.23 – 5.0.
- You are required to have accomplished a point score. The percentile should be 80 percent or more on a 100-point scale or be rated within the highest 20 percent within an individual’s class.
The Candidate’s Health status conditions include:
- Every candidate is required to be in good health, mentally and physically, to learn in Korea for the entire period of the educational program or research courses.
Application
Try to reach out to the 1st selection institutions, including embassies and universities, to acquire explicit information concerning the application presentation, including the application deadline, needed documents, interviews, and more. The request presentation deadline may vary by every consulate or institution performing the first selection round. You will require the following documents:
- A total concluded candidate Form.
- Properly detailed Personal Statement
- Your suggested study plan
- You are required to demand two recommendation letters from individuals who understand you accurately.
- An accurately concluded GKS candidate consensus
- Your medical evaluation
- Diplomas and certificates of high school conclusion of studies, bachelor’s degree certificate or diploma, master’s degree or diploma certificate, doctoral and any other applicable educational document
- Candidate’s evidence of citizenship document
- Certificate of birth or family registrar, copy of passport, or more.
- Candidate’s parent’s evidence of citizenship document
- Certificate of authentic TOPIK score, certificate of birth, and passports