{"id":5274,"date":"2025-04-25T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/?post_type=program&#038;p=5274"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:56:04","slug":"seoul-korea-university","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/program\/seoul-korea-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul: Korea University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Korea University, founded in 1905, is widely acknowledged as one of the country\u2019s oldest, largest and the most prestigious universities in Korea. Its reputation for quality is based on excellence in teaching, research and service to Korean society. Eminent faculty, outstanding students and internationally recognized research programs all contribute to Korea University\u2019s academic fame. As a major comprehensive university, KU offers a rich variety of courses in liberal arts and sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KU\u2019s education goal, \u2018To encourage the holistic growth of intelligent, spiritual and active potential, nurture capabilities for creative academic study and professional practice, and foster open-minded leadership contributing to the international community\u2019, KU strives to take the lead in creating a new future by developing knowledge that can change and lead our society and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past several years, we have seen a dramatic increase in both the number of courses offered in English and in the number of international students who have chosen Korea University as their study abroad destination. In the fall of 2020, we welcomed almost 13,513 students to our campus from all parts of the globe. <a href=\"https:\/\/gsc.korea.ac.kr\/usr\/about\/korea_university.do\">More information on KU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are required to enroll in Korean language as part of the program.<\/p>\n<div style=\"program-single\">\n\t\t\t<h3>Location<\/h3><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/home\/asia\/\">Asia<\/a> : <a href=\"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/home\/asia\/asia-korea\/\">South Korea<\/a> : Seoul<\/li><\/ul><h3>Language<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<ul><li><b>Fluency Level<\/b>: None<\/li><\/ul><h3>Miscellaneous<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<ul><li><b>Sponsor<\/b>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gsc.korea.ac.kr\/usr\/exchange\/visiting_program.do\" target=\"_blank\">Korea University<\/a><\/li><li><b>Housing Type<\/b>: Dorm w\/ local students<\/li><\/ul><h3>Evaluations<\/h3><p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-login.php?action=shibboleth&idp=preset\">login<\/a> to view evaluations.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"academic-program":[],"class_list":["post-5274","program","type-program","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/program"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program\/5274\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"academic-program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axis.bates.edu\/ocsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic-program?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}