March 4, 2005

South Korea Seeks Huge Increase in Number of Foreign Students

By ALAN BRENDER

The South Korean education ministry has announced a plan to almost triple the number of foreign students enrolled in the country's higher-education system during the next five years, from 17,000 to 50,000.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Education and Human Resources said the plan, dubbed the Study Korea Project, is designed in part to help South Korea become an education hub in Asia. This year 85 percent of the foreign students in South Korea are from Asian nations.

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