Directly from the candidates.

*NIIED accepts and judges only the candidates recommended by the 1^st Selection Institutions. They are:

- For applicants (including overseas Korean adoptees) applying via a Korean embassy : the Korean embassy in the

country of origin.

*Korean Educational Institutes (Korean Education Center or Korean Cultural Center) affiliated with the local Korean embassies may accept applications, and select and recommend candidates in place of embassies in some countries.

- For applicants applying via a domestic university : One of the 66 designated universities

o Deadline of Submission : The date set forth by the 1^st Selection Institutions within March 2015

* It’s applicant’s duty to ask the deadline to the applying institution since each institution has set deadline individual

itself.

* Deadline for the recommendation of candidates to NIIED by the 1^st Selection Institutions is April 10^th, 2015.

* If the respective 1^st Selection Institutions do not submit their candidates’ documents to NIIED on time, they will be excluded from the examination of NIIED Selection Committee, and their quotas will be substituted by the other 1^st Institutions’ reserve candidates.

o Required documents : One original document (placed in a separate envelope) and 3 extra photocopies.

* Documents not in English or Korean must be accompanied by a complete English or Korean translation

authenticated by the issuing institution or notarized by a notary’s office.

O Note

* Selection for successful candidates will be done strictly by the NIIED Selection Committee.

Therefore, appropriate documents should be submitted by the deadline.

- Dual applications are not accepted. Applicants must apply for this program via only one institution.

- Documents should be presented in their original form.

- Submitted documents will not be returned to the applicants.

- Incomplete or incorrect documents may lead to application rejection or failure in the Selection Committee,

and scholarship revocation even after entry into Korea.

- In case of submitting photocopied documents, applicants must submit the original to the 1^st Selection Institution and have the original one and the photocopied onecollated. The confirmation of collation should be indicated in the photocopied documents.

- Applicants who are expected to graduate from their respective home undergraduate/graduate institutions by

August 31^st, 2015, must submit the certificate (or letter) of expected graduation issued by saidinstitutions when

they apply; the official certificate of graduation must be received by NIIED by August 31^st, 2015.

- Applicants must accurately complete the health checklist truthfully. All successful candidates must take

a comprehensive medical exam when its’ orientation. In accordance with the requirements of the Korea

Immigration Service and the KGSP Program, the candidates who are judged to be physically unfit for this program

will not be accepted.

- Applicants may submit the copies of published papers, if available.

- Applicants may submit the copies of awards, if available.

* Applicants must submit all the documents by the checklist order. (Checklist for the application documents should be on the front page, followed by the required documents, stapled and attached.)

* Transferring to a different university after confirming the host university is not permitted in any cases. In regards to changing majors, it would be permitted only under the mutual agreement of the departments concerned only within the same university, with the scholarship period unchanged. (2 years of Master’s, or 3 years of doctoral, in total). However, quitting a program and applying for a new one is not permitted.