DAEJEON — KAIST President Bae Choong-sik, who took office last week, wants to double the share of international students by 2030, but says the real test of the university's global push will be whether incoming students and researchers produce meaningful work with their Korean peers. "The current proportion of international students sits at about 10 to 15 percent," Bae said in an exclusive interview with The Korea Herald. "So the 30 percent goal is a challenging one." Still, Bae said the target i

For more than a century women-only unis thrived, but debates on their existence, future roles anger students Confronting their biggest challenge in a century, South Korea‘s women’s universities are embroiled in controversies that have led some to question their relevance in a society where gender eq

Of foreign graduates, 8.2% locally hired, 28.6% left country, over 50% ‘unknown’ South Korea‘s universities are witnessing a transformative shift in their cultural landscape, brought by a surge in the number of international students. Though the trend was stagnant during the pandemic era, the number

Long-standing prejudice against provincial colleges threatens their existence - and the local economies that surround them “I would rather give up another year of my youth studying and trying again if I don’t make it ‘in-Seoul.’” Kim Tae-yoo, is set to graduate high school in just a month, but he sa