As you know, we have received an email from IIE office that we have to sign a paper and return it back till 3rd April. The text which says '상기인은 2009학년도 위탁 대학원 진학을 위하여 제1지망-제5지망까지 대학원을 선택하여 지원하는 바, 지원한 대학원에 합격하지 못할 경우 본인의 전공을 고려하여 해당하는 위탁 대학원에 진학할 수 있도록 조치하여 주시기 바라며 이에 동의서를 제출합니다.' means if you sign this you will get into a trouble. Why?
Because when I applied for this program, they offered me one-year Korean Language Course followed by master's degree program. Of course I have been told that I am supposed to give a proficiency test, which is going to be held in summer. Then I came here. After a while they changed the rules. They change the rules every week, sometimes every day. Have a look;
*If you fail to enter all the universities, you will have a talk with NIIED and they will choose a university referring to your major, but if you do not want to enter it and finally give up, you will be deprived of government scholarship and should go back
1 - Yonsei University
2 - Kyung Hee University
3 - Inha University
4 - Kookmin University
5 - KDI
If Yonsei doesn't admit me, other universities won't admit either. Because if someone wrote Kyung Hee as a first choice Kyung Hee will admit him, even if he has a lower academic background than me which means we have only one chance to enter to a university, not 5.
I was O.K with that because in case I fail I had a chance to return to my country after quitting the program. Now they want to take this chance from us.
I don't know what you are going to do. But in my case, I am not going to sign this paper; besides I am not going to tell them my choices till I get my KLPT and TOEFL exam results. We can all boycott that regulation, at least I will. Or you can stay silent till they send you to Daejeon or somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Best Wishes,
Javanshir Safarov
12 comments:
you are courageous........
good luck
bravooo...this proves that you have a back bone.......
thanks for your support guys
so now what is your plan?
I am asking you this because lot of students will be getting advantage if they know what the real situation is...
so you think we can negociate with NIIED??
What if we have the pass mark and get a uni but if our korean knoledge is not sufficiant to continue our studies???
The main problem is getting an admission to a university at the moment. Of course, one year language course is not enough to study Master's or Ph.D degree. I know guys whose major was Korean Language. They have been learning Korean at least for 5 years but still at the lecture they can't understand everything. It depends on the university, but mostly teachers are tolerant to foreign students who are studying in Korean. The thing is we have to try really hard.
well ........
do we have to do korean history and other subjects related to their culture as compusary subjects??
you say ..... one year language course is not enough to study Master's or Ph.D degree. but how are you going to study if it is sooo difficult for you.......
Did you discuss that matter with NIIED?
and what is the answer??
also you say...... but mostly teachers are tolerant to foreign students who are studying in Korean. The thing is we have to try really hard.
What if they are not tolerant?? how can we depend on their kindness..we are here to study?
cant they promote teaching in english??
did you ask them??
1 - Subjects depend on your major.
2 - There is nothing easy. And I haven't discussed that issue with NIIED.
3 - You can study in English also, if English your native language or if you have English Language Proficiency Test result.
4 - Please leave your name after you comment.
5 - Thank you very much for your interest.
Hi,Daejeon is not bad,KAIST is there,hehe.Thanks for your information.
I didn't say that Daejeon is bad :))
I wish I could go at least there :))
You are welcome...
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