According to the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors 2005 report (and reported in the Segye Ilbo), a total of 219 North Korean students (or at least North Korean nationals) were studying in the United States in 2004~2005, a 25.6 percent increase from the 174 who were studying in the U.S. in 2003~2004.
Meanwhile, two U.S. students were studying in North Korea in 2003~2004, according to the report. This is the first time it has been revealed that U.S. students have officially gone to the DPRK for study.
South Korea was the third largest supplier of foreign students in the United States (behind China and India) with 53,358 in 2004~2005. Since 2000, the number of Korean students studying in the United States has steadily increased.
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When did Korea take over Japan in the number of students? I guess Japanese students are a lot more satisfied with Japanese schools than Korean students are with Korean ones (there is no shortage of Korean students studying in Japan as well).
I wonder if any of these DPRK students are ethnic Koreans born in Japan whose default citizenship is DPRK (my ex-fiancee was one such person).
Regarding studying in North Korea. I’m a US citizen, and there is a real possibility that I might do some of my PhD research (medical sociology) in the DPRK, through one of the international organizations there. When I discussed this with some of my prospective professors in the States, they talked as if it wasn’t that unusual.
Free tuition and a chance to earn big cash on the side…can’t beat that!
I wonder if Korean students overseas is so much about dissatisfaction with Korean education or more to do with the rising strength of the won which makes studying (at least in my country) a fair bit cheaper…
On a side note-
I wonder if Australian nationals could find a way to study in the DPRK (as an undergrad with a major in ???) ?
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that this current theme kinda stinks. I know you can do better, Marmot.
Love,
Ray
P.S. - i’m kind of out of the loop so forgive me if there’s already been a resolution to this.
Maybe the NORKs are studying nuclear engineering.
One possible reason why Koreans outnumber Japanese is that Koreans attach more social value to advanced education. I remember reading in the Times or the Herald several years ago that Korea has more PhDs per capita than Japan. In Korea, I knew an older Japanese visiting university professor with only a master’s degree. He explained that nowadays, a PhD is needed to obtain a professorship, but in the past, there were’t many PhDs and a master’s was sufficient. Except in certain vocational fields like nursing, I never met a Korean or American professor who did not have a PhD.
Maybe the NORKS are there scouting out new people for Kim Jeong Il to kidnap and make movies for him.
I hardly ever see Japanese engineering grad students in the U.S., although there are tons of Korean students. I’ve asked some Japanese researchers about this and it seems like the reasons are 1. Japan already has very good universities that offer advanced research environments, 2. They are somewhat “nationalistic” in that it is hard for one to gain recognition and professorships, etc. without obtaining his/her degree from a domestic institute.
OK for them to study in the US as long as they don’t take flying lessons. When they visit local strip club, you must notify FBI. (For those who don’t know, Islam terrorists visited a local skin joint night before they hijacked the planes to attack Twin Towers.)
Nobody thinks the quality of dancers has anything to do with what ensued.
does anyone know if the north korean nationals are soren members or real DPRK students?
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On a side note-
I wonder if Australian nationals could find a way to study in the DPRK (as an undergrad with a major in ???) ?
Posted by: Hojuin | November 16, 2005 at 03:46 PM”
I seem to recall an article referenced from here which mentioned a couple of North Koreans studying Agricultural Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. Under which programme, I’m not sure.
But given this, and the fact that North Korea has diplomatic relations with Australia and an embassy in Canberra, I can’t see how it would be out of the question for an Australian citizen to study in North Korea.
baduk/ Yeah. Those “North Koreans” are actually soren sutudents from Japan. Who else?