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Gimcheon High School in North Gyeongsang Province has decided to accept new foreign students from next year. Since these foreign freshmen are selected “out of the quota,” they do not compete with domestic students and can enter the school relatively easily.
In Gyeongsangbuk-do, 7 vocational high schools decided to accept 52 foreign students next year, and it is very groundbreaking for Kimcheon High School, a high school aiming to enter a prestigious university, to accept foreign students.
Increasing number of high school foreign students?
*Why are they suddenly selecting? : Due to the decrease in population, there may be a situation where each school in Korea cannot fill all the admission quotas.
Accordingly, Gimcheon High School plans to preemptively attract foreign students and educate talented students to nurture elites in each country.
*What kind of school is Kimcheon High School? : Gimcheon High School is an autonomous private high school and one of the prestigious high schools. All students live in dormitories, and many students go on to prestigious universities in Seoul every year.
Parents who send their children to autonomous private high schools such as Gimcheon High School aim to go to prestigious universities from the beginning and bear some expensive tuition fees.
What are the admission qualifications?
*Grades and Korean proficiency are important: Qualifications for admission are within 20% of middle school grades, TOPIK level 3, and TOEFL score of 75 or higher. We plan to select students who can communicate in English even if they are not good at Korean. I think you should study well.
*How many students are selected? : Next year, Kim Cheon High plans to accept 16 foreign students, including 8 Chinese, 7 Vietnamese, and 1 Cambodian. As for the selection method, it was decided to use the method of obtaining cooperation from the Ministry of Education of Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam, rather than going through the public recruitment process.
*Selection method likely to change: In the future, a method in which marriage immigrants recommend family members from their home country may be used in the future.
Principal Na Yeong-ho of Kim Cheon High School said, “Since he is a foreign student, I thought that he should be selected abroad. From next year, I will think about ways to use the family recommendation method for immigrants by marriage in Korea,” he told Papaya Story.
What's good about going to Kimcheon High School?
*Tuition support? : Gimcheon High School plans to receive tuition and dormitory fees from Chinese students with relatively better economic conditions, and provide full tuition and dormitory fees to Vietnamese and Cambodian students.
The school foundation decided to fully cover the budget of about 15 million won per year per international student, including food and Korean language education expenses.
*How is the education of international students? : 16 foreign students are assigned to 8 classes, 2 each, and take classes with Korean students. In the first semester, they take a Korean language course at Gimcheon University instead of a subject class, and a Korean instructor teaches Korean on campus.
International students must obtain level 6 of the Korean Proficiency Test by the time they graduate. During school life, they plan to live with Korean students in a dormitory for 4 people, and they plan to do a homestay with a Korean family during vacation.
When entering universities after graduation, foreign students can enter prestigious universities throuth Foreign Student Screenung in Korea more easily than domestic students.
*Will high school international students increase? : Just as the Korean government has decided to double the number of university students by 2027, there is no doubt that the number of high school students will also increase.
However, it is necessary to introduce a method recommended by foreign residents living in Korea, such as marriage immigrants, for the selection of international students. Papaya Story will work together.
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