o The guideline, application form, and university information will be available at the website of GKS (www.gks.go.kr), Korean Embassies, and designated domestic universities.
O For applicants (including Korean adoptees) who apply for KGSP via Korean Embassies
- (1st Selection) Korean Embassies make its own selection schedule and plan based on the criteria
provided by NIIED, and accept the applications. They select 1.5 times as many candidates as their
quota from the pool of applicants and recommend them to NIIED.
* Applicants from China and the Czech Republic should submit their applications to the Ministry of
Education (or equivalent institution) in their respective country of origin, in accordance with the
mutual agreements between Korea and those countries.
* Only Korean adoptees who have foreign citizenship can apply for this program via a Korean
Embassy if their countries of origin are allotted the adoptee quota. They are selected through a
separate procedure; general applicants cannot be accepted through this application category.
- (2nd Selection) NIIED Selection Committee selects as many successful candidates as each
embassy quota amongst the pool of candidates recommended by the Embassies.
- (3rd Selection) NIIED submits the documents of successful candidates to their 3 universities of
indicated preference, and requests admission examination of the candidates into their master’s or
doctoral programs. The universities have to notify the result of examination to the candidates and
NIIED by the designated date. The candidates who gain admission from more than one university
will have to make a final selection, and notify their respective local Korean Embassy and NIIED by
the designated date. Only the candidates who gain admission within the 3rd Selection period can
be accepted as official KGSP scholars.
O For applicants who apply for KGSP via designated domestic universities
- (1st Selection) Each designated university will draft its own selection schedule and plan based on
the criteria provided by NIIED, and accepts the applications. Each designated university will select
up to 15 candidates from all of the quota-assigned countries and recommend them to NIIED. They
cannot recommend more than 3 candidates from a single country, with the exceptions of Brazil,
Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, and Turkey.
- (2nd Selection) NIIED Selection Committee selects as many successful candidates as each
country’s quota from all of the candidates recommended by the universities. The candidates who
are selected in the NIIED Selection Committee will be accepted to the university which
recommended them, and will be finally accepted as official KGSP scholars upon a successful
comprehensive medical examination.
Selection Criterion
O All documents including transcript, self-introduction, study plan, certificates of language proficiency (Korean and English), recommendations, published papers and awards, etc., will be evaluated.