Number of International Students and Professors Increases
According to a report in today’s Korea Times, the number of foreign students studying at colleges and universities in South Korea now totals 50,591. This figure is 10,000 more than in April of 2008, a twenty percent year-on-year increase. 40,000 of these students came from China, representing 78 percent of the total. Mongolia ranked next with 1,632 students, followed by Viet Nam and Japan with 2.9 percent and 2.2 percent respectively.
The number of foreign professors has also increased in recent years. There are currently 4,127 international educators teaching at Korean colleges, up from 3,433 last year, 2,919 in 2007 and 2,540 in 2006.