Required Documentation

o Place of submission

*NIIED and Foreign embassies in Korea are not 1^st Selection Institutions and do not accept applications.

*NIIED accepts and judges only the candidates recommended by the 1^st Selection Institutions. They are:

- For applicants (including overseas Korean adoptees) applying via a Korean embassy : the Korean

embassy in the country of origin.

*Korean Educational Institutes affiliated with the local Korean embassies may accept applications,

and select and recommend candidates in place of embassies in some countries.

- For applicants applying via a domestic university : One of the 51 designated universities

o Deadline of Submission : The date set forth by the 1^st Selection Institutions within March 2012

* Deadline for the recommendation of candidates to NIIED by the 1^st Selection Institutions is April

13^th, 2012.

* If the respective 1^st Selection Institutions do not submit their candidates’ documents to NIIED on

time, they will be excluded from the examination of NIIED Selection Committee, and their quotas will

be substituted by the other 1^st Institutions’ reserve candidates.

o Required documents : One original document (placed in a separate envelope) and 3 extra copies.

* Documents not in English or Korean must be accompanied by a complete English or Korean

translation authenticated by the issuing institution or notarized by a notary’s office.

o Note

* Selection for successful candidates will be done strictly by the NIIED Selection Committee.

Therefore, appropriate documents should be submitted by the deadline.

- Dual applications are not accepted. Applicants must apply for this program via only one institution.

- Documents should be presented in their original form.

- Submitted documents will not be returned to the applicants.

- Incomplete or incorrect documents may lead to application rejection or failure in the Selection

Committee, and scholarship revocation even after entry into Korea.

- In case of submitting photocopied documents, applicants must submit the original to the 1^st Selection Institution and have the original one and the photocopied one collated. The confirmation of collation should be indicated in the photocopied documents.

- Applicants who are expected to graduate from their respective home undergraduate/graduate

institutions by August 31^st, 2012, should submit the certificate (or letter) of expected graduation

issued by saidinstitutions when they apply; the official certificate of graduation should be received

by NIIED by August 31^st, 2012.

- Applicants must accurately complete the health checklist truthfully. All successful candidates must take a comprehensive medical exam after passing the 2^nd Selection. In accordance with the requirements of the Korea Immigration Service and the KGSP Program, the candidates who are judged to be physically unfit for this program will not be accepted.

- Applicants may submit the copies of published papers, if available.

- Applicants may submit the copies of awards, if available.

* Applicants must submit all the documents by the checklist order. (Checklist for the application documents should be on the front page, followed by the required documents, stapled and attached.)

* Transferring to a different university after confirming the host university is not permitted in any cases. In regards to changing majors, it would be permitted only under the mutual agreement of the departments concerned only within the same university, with the scholarship period unchanged. (2 years of Master’s, or 3 years of doctoral, in total). However, quitting a program and applying for a new one is not permitted.

Selection Schedule

o Application Period : Jan. 31^st ~ Mar. 31^st (decided by the 1^st Selection Institution)

o The 1^st Selection : The end of March (decided by the 1^st Selection Institution)

o Deadline for Recommendation to NIIED : April 13^th (All documents must be received by NIIED.)

o The 2^nd Selection : Mid-April (NIIED Selection Committee)

o Announcement for the Results of the 2^nd Selection : April 30^th (posted on GKS websites)

o Official Physical Examination : May 1^st ~ May 31^st (completed by candidates themselves)

o Admission Procedures for the KoreanEmbassies’ candidates: May 7^th~May 31^st

o Announcement for Final Successful Candidates : June 11^th (GKS websites-www.gks.go.kr)

o Visa Issue and Air ticket purchase : June 12^th ~ July 31^st

o Entry into Korea : August 27^th ~ August 29^th

o NIIED Orientation : August 30^th ~ August 31^st

o Korean Language Course : September 1^st

13. For further information, please contact :

o 1^st Institutions : Refer to The Contact Information of Korean Embassies and Universities in the

attachment #8.

o KGSP Team, National Institute for International Education (NIIED)

- Address: #205 NIIED, 81 Ewhajang-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-810, Republic of Korea

- www.gks.go.kr

‣ Korean version: 외국인대상 → 정부초청외국인장학생 → 공지사항

‣ English version: Inbound → Korean Government Scholarship Program → Announcement

- Phone: +82-2-3668-1364, +82-2-3668-1358

- Fax: +82-2-743-4992

- Email: niiedkgsp@gmail.com

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