The Korea Society awards annual scholarships for students interested in the Korean language. One scholarship is for a summer session at a Korean university, the other is for a full school year. You can expect full tuition, airfare and living expenses to be covered in these two scholarships.
Korea Society
950 Third Ave., 8th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212-759-7525
koreasociety.org
Blakemore Foundation Asian Scholarship offers students grants and fellowships to Asian institutions to advance knowledge of the language and culture. Fellowship applicants must be involved in a profession that requires the use of the Asian language, must have an undergraduate degree, and must be prepared to engage in full-time study with some previous background of the language.
Blakemore Foundation
1201 Third Ave., Suite 4800
Seattle, WA 98101-3266
206-359-8778
blakemorefoundation.org
Every year the International Korean Adoptee Service, InKAS, sponsors Korean language scholarships through the language institutes of Korean, Sogang, Yonsei, Ewha and Kyunghee universities. You are required to be at least 18 and commit at least one semester to studying in Korea. The scholarship consists of full tuition for one semester and includes books. Winners must maintain at least a 2.0 GPA to maintain the scholarship.
International Korean Adoptee Service
4F 101-12 Daehyun Dong
Seodaemoon-Gu
Seoul, Korea 120-89
02-3148-0258
inkas.or.kr
Hanyang University has a Korean language scholarship program in which eligible applicants who are aspiring to complete the bachelor's degree, the master's degree, or doctoral studies can have full tuition and expenses paid. These scholarships are for those who already have a working, intermediate knowledge of Korean and were younger than 35 as of January 2006.
Office of International Cooperation
Hanyang University
17 Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu
Seoul, 133-791, Korea
+82-2-2220-0046
hanyang.ac.kr/