Korea Scholars Program

Do you want to learn more about the culture that created musical artists like BTS and Blackpink and the Netflix hit “Squid Game”? If so, you could be one of 10 incoming freshmen chosen as Korea Scholars.

• Take a First-Year Experience course centered on Korea’s contemporary culture
• Take a year-long Korean cyber-language course taught by Korean instructors
• Live in a designated living-learning community with your fellow Korea Scholars and students from South Korea and East Asia
• Spend three to four weeks at our sister school, Hannam University, in Daejeon, South Korea. There, you’ll earn three to six credit hours learning about Korean culture while traveling around the country in the Korean Summer Studies Program. Round-trip airfare is included. 
• Students who are selected receive a scholarship to participate in the program.

The Korea Scholars Program is part of our Center for South Korean and East Asian Studies.

To apply to the Korea Scholars Program, students must apply and be admitted to Presbyterian College. While in the student application portal, select the Korea Scholars Program link. Fill out the form and upload a one-page essay explaining why you’d like to be a part of this program. 

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