Study in Korea under fully-funded Scholarships

The Republic of Korea is one of the leading global research nations. From its humble beginnings in the 1960s as a poor nation until today, Korea has made impressive progress in the quality of research. Korea is now a globally leading R&D power in areas of industrial research (IT, communication, transport, civil engineering). The Korean Government also invests heavily in R&D and its numerous public research institutes and universities constantly improve. Study in Korea under fully-funded Scholarships in various disciplines of science and technology.

Recently, the Korean Government has heavily invested in basic research (creation of the Institutes of Basic Research), internationalization of its research and increasing recognition of creativity in R&D by supporting research freedom and start-ups/technology transfer.

DID YOU KNOW THAT:

• In 2011, South Korea invested 0.73% of its GDP in Basic Research, placing Korea as worldwide number 2 behind Switzerland with 0.77%
• Korea ranks 9th in the list of Gross domestic expenditure on research and development per capita population
• Korea is coming first in patent applications/GDP and that Korean firms totally hold 640’412 patents (worldwide #3)
• In 2011 South Korea invested 4% of its Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD), placing Korea as worldwide number 2 behind Israel
• Korea has the second highest amount of total researchers within OECD,
• Graduation rate from university among Korean aged from 24 to 34 is 63% ranking Korea as number 1 among OECD countries

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