[.SOUJIRO^]

For those that have studied abroad in Korea already, roughly how much did you guys spend a semester??

I've got an estimated budget for one semester at Yonsei:

1)Housing 1,200
2)Meals 1,600
3)Books 300
4)Personal Expenses 1,000
= TOTAL (USD) 4,100

Are these numbers close to amount you guys spent???

[ichiban]

anyone know anything about chung-ang university? It's been confirmed that my school will be selecting 2 people to participate in their abroad program.

[k1D3Ck]

For those that have studied abroad in Korea already, roughly how much did you guys spend a semester??

I've got an estimated budget for one semester at Yonsei:

1)Housing 1,200
2)Meals 1,600
3)Books 300
4)Personal Expenses 1,000
= TOTAL (USD) 4,100

Are these numbers close to amount you guys spent???

Plane ticket

[.SOUJIRO^]

Plane ticket

I didn't include all the pre-departure costs such as plane tickets, travel insurance and visa applications etc....
I am just wondering if the estimates I got from Yonsei is a good guide.. Are they reliable?/

[littoOhri]

try looking into Soonchunhyang University's Spring/Fall (or both) Study Abroad/Internship Program

they offer a program that lets you live/study/learn korean & the culture while "interning" for like 15 hours a week, which usually ends up to be socials outside of class. they waive your airfare (~$800), your living quarters, and pay up to $125 every week as a stipend. oh, and did i mention there's a mini-bar in the newly-built dormitories?

do a google search on it, or perhaps your university already offers the program there!

hey i was planning on going to sch cuz the only korean university my school's affiliated with is that place..lol i heard it's in the middle of nowhere..but they do offer alot of benefits. ^^ i wanna go next year and i have some questions about it:

1. what kind of classes can i take besides cultural electives?
2. is the campus friendly?
3. should i bring my laptop?
4. what do college kids do for fun there
5. is the downtown decent?
6. are any of the classes taught in english?
7. how are the dorms?

=D thanks in advance

[chibifry]

Regarding the Yonsei KLI program - are there any benefits if your parent is an alumni ?

[LoH_Ter]

Hey, little mixed girl, about how much did you spend total (including EVERYTHING) and how much financial aid were you able to get? Did you apply for scholarships?

[losborrachos]

anyone can pm me with yonsei application process for the spring 2007 if they want..i was accepted to the spring 07 program so ive already been through it..but i decided to go to korea university's spring 2007 semester instead bc they have better liberal arts courses (that i need credits for)..anyone else going to koryo spring 2007?

i'm considering that program actually... it's true they have better liberal arts courses that count into graduation as opposed to yonsei... it depends on whether i get accepted into my school's study abroad program in spain... if not this year i might go 2008

[jurassic5]

when i was at Yonsei....books were cheap because profs just used copied books. not sure how it is nowadays.

[little mixed girl]

Hey, little mixed girl, about how much did you spend total (including EVERYTHING) and how much financial aid were you able to get? Did you apply for scholarships?

i got financial aid from my school in the form of loans and scholarships.

it was about $6,000 or so, and it cuts it pretty close.
the dorm fee is about $500
then the plane ticket was $1,050 ish.
then i had to buy things, that took up money.

for books...the korean books were like $10-30ish.
for the non-korean language classes, we did use a lot of print outs, and those were maybe $10-20.
my school charges a fee for study abroad programs, and that was about $800.
yonsei's fee was like...$2000 i think? so i was left with about $1000 of spending money.

that's kinda enough...
it depends on how much partying you want to do, what kind of foods you want to eat, etc.

but when i went the exchange rate was a lot better...like 1,300won to $1.
when i went last summer it was like 931won to $1...i almost cried.

most of the other ppl that went got extra spending money from their parents...and if they were korean-americans they got spending money from their relatives.

this was the summer program, i don't know about the winter/fall program.

if you're parents are rich, then they can probably give you a few hundred dollars on top of the financial aid spending money.

if you have relatives in korea, then they'll probably give you spending money too.

[ChunJin]

I wish my parents were incredibly rich so I could go to Yonsei =p... Someone sponsor me hahaha!

[missmayleecha]

I went through this whole thread and I didn't find much on EWHA Woman University...
I was thinking about going there fall 2007...So I would like to know if this is a good university overall.
I don't want to waste my time to go there and have it be shitty. Please pm or something to let me know more about EWHA.

[luvxholic]

i'm planning to go to yonsei in 2008 for a semester or year...as far as i know from my school's estimate for a year it costs about 13,000 including dorms/airfare/personal expenses...ekk so much

[LoH_Ter]

Thanks little mixed girl!

Few more questions.

On the application, it asks you to put whose going to pay for your time abroad. Do you just put scholarships and financial aid, or your own name? @.@

[jaey]

HELP!

I'm not korean... and I don't know a single thing about speaking or writing it. Is it going to be a HUGE problem if I choose a Korean Uni for exchange?

[little mixed girl]

Thanks little mixed girl!

Few more questions.

On the application, it asks you to put whose going to pay for your time abroad. Do you just put scholarships and financial aid, or your own name? @.@

is that the yonsei application?
i don't remember that, but if it was there, i think i listed the scholarships/loans that i got.

HELP!

I'm not korean... and I don't know a single thing about speaking or writing it. Is it going to be a HUGE problem if I choose a Korean Uni for exchange?

you don't need to know korean for the yonsei program, and i assume it's the same for other universities.
the purpose is not for ppl to take classes in korean, it's for foreigners to get exposed to korea while going to class.
the only time you might use korean in the uni is if you took a korean language class.

[ChunJin]

What are some scholarships that do this? I'd like to really go to school for a summer in another country; I'm planning to go into Architecture... so I need more cultural experience.

[zeli]

i don't know about your schools but when you go on exchange (say with yonsei) do you still have to pay tuition to your own school? my University does that and i'm sort of deciding weather to go or not because it seems kind of expensive. plust you need tickets and housing..etc

[elavndrc]

hmm i didn't get the chance to read the entire thread but I am planning on going to Yonsei for a semester. Does anyone know like the lowest GPA of a person that got accepted? I know the thing on the Yonsei websites says 2.8 but I feel like if everyone that applies has higher than that they will have higher standards? LOL ~~

I'm now kind of getting scared of the toilet thing that someone mentioned in the first page haha....

I will be going with a friend (hopefully) we'll be attending the same school ~ it'll either be Yonsei or Korea University....but hopefully we can make friends with people there, we're both not Korean but the two of us are very familiar with Korean entertainment ~hence being @ soompi lol...well if we dont' make any friends we have a friend in Korea hahaha...

Anyone know anything about the Korea University semester abroad program?

[theedqueen]

Oh god, I'm turning in my application for Yonsei tomorrow. I'm sooooo paranoid I might've done something wrong. This is like my one chance to study abroad because I'll probably have to look for a job/internship the next summer, and since I'm a math major I don't think it'd be a good idea for me to do an academic year/semester abroad.

Anybody else applying?