A STUDY ON NEPALESE STUDENTS IN SOUTH KOREA: PULL FACTORS, PROBLEMS, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
- 주제(키워드) Nepalese Students , South Korea , International Student , Pull and Push Factors , Problems faced
- 발행기관 아주대학교
- 지도교수 Ian Watson
- 발행년도 2017
- 학위수여년월 2017. 2
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 국제대학원 국제개발협력과
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- 본문언어 영어
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초록/요약
South Korea, the trend of accepting the international students was put into effect only after early 2000 and Nepalese students also started to arrive as international students in Korea during this period and Society of Nepalese Student in South Korea was formed in 2004. The literature review has showed that Nepalese student population in South Korea has a unique feature in comparison to Nepalese students going to other countries like Japan, Australia or USA as most of them are enrolled in graduate and Ph.D. level where as undergraduate students population is more on other countries. Furthermore international student population in Korea also shows that most of the students are enrolled in undergraduate or language courses. The major pull factors for students to come to Korea were due to the scholarship opportunity, for the research and specialization, to earn a foreign degree and low expense at the first as students. For the students who receive scholarship research and specialization is the main pull factor whereas for most of the self- financed students have agreed that they came to Korea to earn foreign degree. Along with this, the self- financed students have agreed that they come to Korea as the expense of coming to Korea in the very beginning as a student is cheaper. The students have agreed to all of the factors as the difficulties they have faced in Korea but ‘lack of part-time work’, ‘Visa extension procedures’ and ‘financing the studies’ was emphasized as strongly agreed difficulties by the self- financed students. Most of the Nepalese students do not see a future in Korea and students have responded to either ‘studying further outside South Korea’ or ‘return back to Nepal as their future plan. Korean government is although trying its best to make the country more open towards the foreign student by creating different scholarship and policies like “study Korea project 2020” but still the number of Nepalese students seem to be very less. The interest of Nepalese student towards Korea seems to be increasing but it still lags way behind in global market for the Nepalese student.
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ACKOWLEDGEMENT i
ABSTRACT ii
INTRODUCTION 1
A. Background of the study 1
B. Research Questions 3
LITERATURE REVIEW 4
A. Nepal and Education Development 4
1. Higher Education in Nepal 6
2. International Trend of Student Mobility 7
3. Trends of Nepalese student going abroad for Education 8
B. South Korea and Education Development 11
1. History of Higher Education in South Korea 11
2. South Korea as a host to International students 12
2.1 Internationalization of Higher Education in Korea 14
a. Different scholarships and projects for Internationalization 15
2.2 Policies that help in Internationalization in Korea 19
C. Literature Review on Push pull model 22
METHODOLOGY 26
A. Research Design 26
B. Population 26
1. Basic information of respondents 27
2. Academic background of respondents 28
3. Scholarship background of respondents 29
C. Research Tools 30
1. Research Tools development 30
2. Questionnaire composition 30
C. Research Process 31
1. Data Collection 31
D. Data Analysis 31
RESEARCH FINDINGS 32
A. Factors that affects the mobility of Nepalese students in South Korea 32
1. Methods used by students to apply in South Korea and choosing Korea 32
2. Major Reason for coming to Korea 33
3. The reasons for choosing Korea 34
B. The push factors in the Nepalese student mobility in South Korea 38
1. Difficulties faced by Nepalese students 38
2. Perceptions of students regarding required services 40
3. Work related issues 42
4. Reasons for part-time 44
C. Future prospects of Nepalese students 46
1. Future plans after study 46
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 49
A. Discussion 49
1. Is there any difference in the factors that affect the reasons for coming to Korea in the basis of scholarship categories? 49
2. What are the factors that create difficulty for the Nepalese students during their academic period in South Korea? 51
3. What are the future opportunities after completion of academic period in South Korea? 52
B. Limitation 52
C. Recommendation 52
D. Conclusion 53
REFERENCE 54
APPENDIX 57
