Overseas students registered at Korean universities surpassed a 100,000 mark for the first time with the largest group coming from China.
Since "Korean wave" has been sweeping the Asian countries and many Korean universities are improving the favorable conditions offered to international students to encouraging them to enroll, number of international students in Korea has been increased close to 10 times within 10 years.
According to report released by Ministry of Justice on 26th, number of overseas students enrolled in Korean universities are 102,117 as of late September.
By nationality, China led “by a clear margin” with more than 61,940 enrolments followed by Vietnam(6953), Mongolia(4358), Japan(2658) and USA(1524).
Korean government hopes to build overseas enrolments to 200,000 by 2020, by pledging to make universities more foreigner-friendly.
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