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Comprehensive Scholarship Guide for South Korea

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January 12, 2025
Comprehensive Scholarship Guide for South Korea

Comprehensive Scholarship Guide for South Korea     

This guide is useful for Research Masters or PhD or MS leading to PhD (Combined). As these are the only modes being offered in South Korea
 
 
Specially useful for those who think their CGPA is less as in South Korea, the professor consent is very useful to get admission, so if you have less CGPA but good skills or profile, and professor likes it. You will have 99% chances that you will get admission and scholarship/funding in South Korea because professor plays an important role in your admission. 

South Korea is one of the countries offering a lot of scholarships in every field. Please read below, with much attention, you will understand every thing    
Dear All, Let me explain to you that in Korea the easiest way to get admission and scholarship (both fee and living expenses) is first of all, you should search relevant professors of your choice and research interest. Then you should make a good CV according to the interest of those relevant professors and send him/her that CV along with a short email stating your introduction and show your interest that you want to do master/Ph.D. or MS PhD combined under his/her supervision. If a professor shows interest it means almost you have 99% chances that your admission is confirmed. To increase your chance of acceptance, you can include, cover letter and research proposal with the mail. In most of the cases, university provides tuition fee scholarship while professor provide monthly living expenses scholarship or professors coves tuition fee and monthly stipend. It also means you have to struggle to get these two scholarships. If you get one then the other you have to pay by yourself and it is very expensive for individual.
 
FEW MORE THINGS In Korea, two kinds of scholarship   
1. Professor scholarship- In this scholarship, you will contact professors and ask them for funding as explained below. This solely depends on professor and university does not give you money in this case. Professor normally pays you stipend from the project funding for which you will work in lab as research assistant and tuition fee is paid by university in some cases Or both stipend and tuition fee is paid by professors, in return you will work in lab as research assistant. This funding is by the big companies in Korea for which you work as research assistant in lab. So, you do the research in lab along with your masters and do a lot of good research and publish papers. In the end you have so much good research enriched profile that you wither get job in good industry there or get PhD or Post doc position in US or Korea or Europe. 
2. University scholarships-University scholarships are offered by the university and you mostly need professors consent that he accepts you in his/her lab under his/her supervision, good than professor scholarship as in this case you will not be depended on money by the professor. But when you apply for this scholarship, you have to contact the professors before in the way as mentioned below, then you have better chance to get this scholarship. Also in these scholarships if professors do not reply, then still apply for it as later when they finalize you for interview, some professors can choose you during interview. But do contact professors before applying.

Why South Korea: See this : 

https://gradwinner.com/articles/south-korea-industries-universities  

STEPS TO FOLLOW: 

So, first of all, you should try to find “Faculty” => Professors profiles on the university website.    
1. Find the Korean universities and Korean research labs related to your discipline on internet. Write Universities in Korea on "Google", you can add wikipedia with the search. So Wikipedia will show you all the universities in Korea. Open one by one each university. Use google translator in case the websites are not in English.
2. Read all your major professors profiles, research interests and projects. (You can also find the research interests of professors by finding on Google their published research papers. See this link to understand it https://gradwinner.com/articles/find-and-email-supervisors-for-ms-phd
3. Make your CV research oriented and also easily readable and good looking. (Also according to the professor you choose to apply. Relate your previous work plus final year project with that professor’s research work and show him/her your interest in his work). A sample can be seen here on this link https://gradwinner.com/articles/find-and-email-supervisors-for-ms-phd 
*Important Note for computing and relevant majors ( In Korea, professors like if you are good in programming languages and it is good if you have distinction in programming skills and you can show them)   
4. Send your email and with research CV, to only one most relevant professor of your choice in one university at a time. But do send at the same time the customized email according to other relevant professor profile in another university. So, you can send many emails to one relevant professor in every Korean university at one time.  Keep in mind only interested professors may reply you, so don’t be disappointed.
IMPORTANT:*Always Open the Korean websites in Google Chrome as you can use “Translate to English” option of chrome. or Google Translator to open whole website in it. Paste the web link in space here and select the language https://translate.google.com/
5. Try to get any English proficiency certificate such as IELTS / TOEFL or even TOEIC (if they accept it). It increases chances of scholarships. Also Embassy of Korea in Pakistan often says that even university in case exempts IELTS/TOEFL, they ask for IELTS or TOEFL exam score. 
 6. Once the ball starts rolling (After getting reply from professor. Come up with a research proposal or project plan (Research plan) that what you are going to research about. Indulge yourself in writing new project/research proposals if required.
7) Read these articles also
a) How to find and contact/email a Supervisor/Professor
https://gradwinner.com/articles/find-and-email-supervisors-for-ms-phd
b) How to search for Research Articles/ papers, Professors, Departments, Websites
https://gradwinner.com/articles/search-research-articles-professors
c)How to Find the Top Professors in your Majors to do your Research Masters/Masters or PhD anywhere in the World or getting degrees from Top Universities in the World 
https://gradwinner.com/articles/find-top-professors-for-ms-phd
8) Do see this special article for Life, Medical Sciences people : https://gradwinner.com/articles/funding-bio-medical-fields-south-korea

Why South Korea ? https://gradwinner.com/articles/south-korea-industries-universities

Do see these videos as well 
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-wjMZ3uOQ
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bakx52jugdc
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vI4Zfm8iLk

Latest post about South Korean Scholarships 
https://gradwinner.com/articles/south-korea-fall-2025-ms-phd-funding


Best Regards 
Waqar Baig 




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