The ‘Hope Ladder Scholarship’ of the Korea Scholarship Foundation, which operates national scholarships worth 4 trillion won per year.
If you graduate from a specialized high school and work at a small or medium-sized company and then go to college, you may receive full tuition support, making it very popular.
Mr. Kang, 23, who entered an evening college in Seoul, also applied for this scholarship.
However, until now, there has been no news of the first semester scholarship, which was usually paid in arrears until this time.
I heard in a group chat room that I would never receive it.
In fact, until last year, anyone who graduated from a specialized high school like Kang and worked at a small or medium-sized company for more than three years received a scholarship.
The Korea Scholarship Foundation only says that this is because the budget provided by the government has decreased.
The number of students who received support last year was 4,700, and this year it is expected to number only 630, or one-seventh of the number.
As a result, the selection of first-year scholarship students was drastically reduced, but there was no prior notice or notice.
The foundation said, “We were unable to inform you in advance because we determine the size of new selections after confirming the total amount of payments to existing scholarship students.”
