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I'm a Senior in high school. I'm actually Korean, but I moved to America when I was 6. Because of family issues, I have to go to college in Korea, but I don't know a thing about getting in... Since I'm a green card holder, am I an international student? Or am I still regular Korean? Or am I an overseas Korean? Are there only particular Korean schools that have programs for overseas Korean? I'm so confused on everything! Of course I'm looking it up, but I'm not even sure what to look up cause I don't know what category I belong in! :/
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The majority of Universities will classify you as an overseas Korean as you and both your parents must be foreign citizens. There are a few schools that would classify you as an international student if you have all 12 years of education abroad, but these are generally considered to be less prestigious schools.
As an overseas Korean, you will be facing a lot more competition than international students. By law, schools are only allowed to admit 2% of a major's total capacity allowance as overseas Koreans. This usually means only around 1-5 overseas Koreans are admitted per major. You will generally be facing around 30:1 odds, with some of the more popular majors like business management being even higher.
The admissions process is divided into two steps for the majority of schools. The first step is the document review. This is where they examine your SAT score, GPA, additional advanced placement tests, essay and recommendations. If you pass this stage, you will either be called back for an interview, the college's entrance exam or for both. The subjects of the exam are usually math and English. Students are admitted by scores of the interview and/or exam. Simply put, if 5 people are to be admitted for a particular major, the top 5 scorers are the ones admitted. As important as it is to have a very high SAT and GPA for the document review, it's even more important to do well during the interview or exam. For the top 10-20 schools, you'd want to have at least a 2000 on the SAT, 3.5+ GPA and a few AP/IB/SAT2 scores.
International students have it a little easier as there is no cap on the number of students that are allowed to be admitted. Generally, International students only need to do the interview. So long as they meet the minimum document requirements and don't screw up too badly during the exam, it's a lot easier to get into a school.
You also need to determine whether or not you'd be able to take your courses in Korean. Most schools will require you to get at least a 4 on the TOPIK (Korean proficiency test) to be able to take classes in Korean. If you can read and understand news articles, you will be fine for this portion. Obviously the vast majority of majors/schools will teach in Korean.
If you don't think you will meet the language requirement, there are a few international colleges and programs. These classes are all taught in English, but the variety of majors are very limiting. Yonsei University probably has the best international college. If you aren't fluent in Korean, this is probably where you'd want to aim for. But as an overseas Korean, you'd need to have pretty high stats to get in. Dangook University has International business administration as a major solely taught in English. To my knowledge, you'd be considered an International at this school. Handong University has a few majors that are taught in English but this is a Christian school.
The majority of Universities will classify you as an overseas Korean as you and both your parents must be foreign citizens. There are a few schools that would classify you as an international student if you have all 12 years of education abroad, but these are generally considered to be less prestigious schools.
As an overseas Korean, you will be facing a lot more competition than international students. By law, schools are only allowed to admit 2% of a major's total capacity allowance as overseas Koreans. This usually means only around 1-5 overseas Koreans are admitted per major. You will generally be facing around 30:1 odds, with some of the more popular majors like business management being even higher.
The admissions process is divided into two steps for the majority of schools. The first step is the document review. This is where they examine your SAT score, GPA, additional advanced placement tests, essay and recommendations. If you pass this stage, you will either be called back for an interview, the college's entrance exam or for both. The subjects of the exam are usually math and English. Students are admitted by scores of the interview and/or exam. Simply put, if 5 people are to be admitted for a particular major, the top 5 scorers are the ones admitted. As important as it is to have a very high SAT and GPA for the document review, it's even more important to do well during the interview or exam. For the top 10-20 schools, you'd want to have at least a 2000 on the SAT, 3.5+ GPA and a few AP/IB/SAT2 scores.
International students have it a little easier as there is no cap on the number of students that are allowed to be admitted. Generally, International students only need to do the interview. So long as they meet the minimum document requirements and don't screw up too badly during the exam, it's a lot easier to get into a school.
You also need to determine whether or not you'd be able to take your courses in Korean. Most schools will require you to get at least a 4 on the TOPIK (Korean proficiency test) to be able to take classes in Korean. If you can read and understand news articles, you will be fine for this portion. Obviously the vast majority of majors/schools will teach in Korean.
If you don't think you will meet the language requirement, there are a few international colleges and programs. These classes are all taught in English, but the variety of majors are very limiting. Yonsei University probably has the best international college. If you aren't fluent in Korean, this is probably where you'd want to aim for. But as an overseas Korean, you'd need to have pretty high stats to get in. Dangook University has International business administration as a major solely taught in English. To my knowledge, you'd be considered an International at this school. Handong University has a few majors that are taught in English but this is a Christian school.
What's up with the immense crime level of Korean men?
James H
87% of all internatonal marriage is Korean men married to Southeast Asian women. 47% of the women consider a divorce within the first year. The average age gap is 20 years. Most of them are beaten and raped. For example the Vietnamese girl in Busan murdered by the man she married 8 days afer she arrived in Korea.
I've read about 7 huge child molestation cases in the Seoul area in 2010 alone. Not all cases are reported in the news.
Rape and assualt are on the rise and continue to be reported.
Suicide among men is rampant. 392 people commited or tried to commit suicide in the Han River alone in 2009.
Is it not getting out of control?
There should be no reason to report abuse of this question nor erase it. It's all factual.
And do not compare it to other countries. For the fact that Korean supposebly prides itself in having a low crime rate, however these things are ridiculously on the rise.
nyni- The average salary of a man that marries a southeast asian woman is less then $1,500 USD a month. Are you kidding me?
sky-correct about the marriages...but what gets me is why Korean man constantly hate it when Korean women are with foreign men...it is rare as you can see for them to get married. They just don't realize that 14% of their own marry these girls from those countries, abuse and beat them.
kpoet- this is what I mean. Korean men cannot admit to their downfalls of society. Genocide of emotions in that answer.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/117_51009.html
Why would it cost that much? It only cost me less then 100,000 won to get married to my K wife.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/07/113_69639.html
Over 40,000 only viets. Wow, that blows away the small 13,000 of us foreign men here married to K's. And we are legally.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/07/117_69209.html
Chinese are half the total, but you know damn well none of them probably speak Korean.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=5655&categoryCode=117
88.3%!!!! There's the answer.
Answer
Recently, a Vietnamese lady married to a Korean guy was murdered by her husband, and it was a huge issue. The problem with Korean guys getting married to Southeast Asian women is a social issue in Korea.
These Korean guys couldn't get married in the first place, because of low education and poor financial situation. They turned to Southeast Asian countries and sometimes China to look for a bride, because they couldn't meet any Korean women willing to marry them.
They would not reveal their real financial situation and personal issues in order to get married first, because it'll be very difficult for any foreigners who don't speak Korean to find information about a person in Korea. Also, there are so many brokers receiving money from these guys to look for a bride for them.
Once they get married, only a tiny portion of marriages are successful. Due to language issues and cultural differences, married couples would fight to the extreme and these Korean guys would not hesitate to use violence against their wives because these men are mostly uneducated and mentally unstable.
There are also opposite cases.
Some foreign women got married to Korean men in order to get Korean citizenship. These women run away as soon as they get their citizenship.
Some of them even plan all this from the beginning and accuse their Korean husbands for domestic violence in order to get divorced and get alimony as soon as they get their citizenship.
A Korean guy married to a Filipino woman committed suicide recently, because he was wrongfully accused of domestic violence and lost everything financially as well as his reputation.
Many of these guys are farmers in rural areas. Some of them live in cities too. They're usually in their late thirties and forties and even in their fifties and sixties.
Sometimes their parents force them to get married to see grandchildren. Also, they need women to do the farming with them and to take care of their old parents.
Some of them just want very young women to live with them and they keep looking for another young women.
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Regarding child molestation...In general, Korean judiciary deals with child molestation cases less seriously than in other countries like the US.
Also, they have some kind of law created a long time ago to give rape victims a choice to deal with the rapists and get settlement money instead of pressing a charge against them. The original purpose was to protect rape victims who feel embarrassed to officially report that they're being raped. However these days, many women are aware of that they shouldn't be embarrassed about themselves for being rape victims.
Rapists use this law to threat victims not to press a charge against them by constantly disturbing the victims. Even if the victims report this to the police, the police usually doesn't take it seriously.
Since the suicide of one of the ex-presidents, Koreans seem to commit suicide more frequently.
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Korean guys will get upset whenever they see Korean girls with foreign men. They wouldn't mind though if a Korean girl dating a foreign guy is from overseas and she cannot speak Korean well.
Foreign guys living in Korea except for employees of well known corporations and organizations are usually low educated losers with no job in their countries. Either they forged diplomas of decent universities through brokers to enter Korea as English teacher, or they are from non-English speaking countries.
Korean guys get angry at the reality that even foreign lowlives are popular amongst girls for the simple reason that they are foreigners.
Most of Korean men beating women were raised in low class families with violent fathers. Similar things happen anywhere in the world even in the US. The only difference is that Korean judiciary has been reluctant to get involved in a domestic violence case if any possible by treating it as a private issue needed to be resolved within the family. Also there are not many places in Korea where these people can get help.
Recently, a Vietnamese lady married to a Korean guy was murdered by her husband, and it was a huge issue. The problem with Korean guys getting married to Southeast Asian women is a social issue in Korea.
These Korean guys couldn't get married in the first place, because of low education and poor financial situation. They turned to Southeast Asian countries and sometimes China to look for a bride, because they couldn't meet any Korean women willing to marry them.
They would not reveal their real financial situation and personal issues in order to get married first, because it'll be very difficult for any foreigners who don't speak Korean to find information about a person in Korea. Also, there are so many brokers receiving money from these guys to look for a bride for them.
Once they get married, only a tiny portion of marriages are successful. Due to language issues and cultural differences, married couples would fight to the extreme and these Korean guys would not hesitate to use violence against their wives because these men are mostly uneducated and mentally unstable.
There are also opposite cases.
Some foreign women got married to Korean men in order to get Korean citizenship. These women run away as soon as they get their citizenship.
Some of them even plan all this from the beginning and accuse their Korean husbands for domestic violence in order to get divorced and get alimony as soon as they get their citizenship.
A Korean guy married to a Filipino woman committed suicide recently, because he was wrongfully accused of domestic violence and lost everything financially as well as his reputation.
Many of these guys are farmers in rural areas. Some of them live in cities too. They're usually in their late thirties and forties and even in their fifties and sixties.
Sometimes their parents force them to get married to see grandchildren. Also, they need women to do the farming with them and to take care of their old parents.
Some of them just want very young women to live with them and they keep looking for another young women.
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Regarding child molestation...In general, Korean judiciary deals with child molestation cases less seriously than in other countries like the US.
Also, they have some kind of law created a long time ago to give rape victims a choice to deal with the rapists and get settlement money instead of pressing a charge against them. The original purpose was to protect rape victims who feel embarrassed to officially report that they're being raped. However these days, many women are aware of that they shouldn't be embarrassed about themselves for being rape victims.
Rapists use this law to threat victims not to press a charge against them by constantly disturbing the victims. Even if the victims report this to the police, the police usually doesn't take it seriously.
Since the suicide of one of the ex-presidents, Koreans seem to commit suicide more frequently.
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[Additional Details]
Korean guys will get upset whenever they see Korean girls with foreign men. They wouldn't mind though if a Korean girl dating a foreign guy is from overseas and she cannot speak Korean well.
Foreign guys living in Korea except for employees of well known corporations and organizations are usually low educated losers with no job in their countries. Either they forged diplomas of decent universities through brokers to enter Korea as English teacher, or they are from non-English speaking countries.
Korean guys get angry at the reality that even foreign lowlives are popular amongst girls for the simple reason that they are foreigners.
Most of Korean men beating women were raised in low class families with violent fathers. Similar things happen anywhere in the world even in the US. The only difference is that Korean judiciary has been reluctant to get involved in a domestic violence case if any possible by treating it as a private issue needed to be resolved within the family. Also there are not many places in Korea where these people can get help.
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