고려대학교 bk21+ 국제학교육연구단

What is BK21?

: Brain Korea 21(BK21) is a government scholarship program for the graduate studies in Korea that runs every 7 years since 1999 and aims to cultivate outstanding scholars

Who is the Participant?

: A full-time graduate student led by a professors participating in the BK21 project (less than two years master's degree and four doctorate years students)

Who is the Fellow?

: A participant who receives a scholarship

Benefits for Participants

• Support for domestic and overseas academic conference participation fees and expenses
• Support short-term (within two weeks) field trip expenses
• Support for participation in overseas education program
• Support research activities
  • Support publication fee of academic articles in a refereed-journal
  • Provide incentives for publication of academic articles in a refreed-journal
  • Hold colloquiums and special lectures by experts
• More opportunities to apply to competition for the participants (e.g. Social Engagement Organization)
• Thesis clinic service
• Provide a textbook (e-book) or statistical analysis software (e.g. STATA) within a range of price
• English writing editing service through the Virtual Writing Clinic (VWC)

Benefits for Fellows

• All benefits for participants except providing a textbook or statistical software
• Fellowship (6 months)
  • Master's student: \ 1,000,000/mon (minimum)
• Fellowship (a year)
  • Ph.D. student: \ 1,600,000/mon (minimum)
    (But \ 1,300,000/mon (minimum) for a Ph.D. student who completed coursework)
• Virtual Writing Editor (6 months)
  • \ 1,000,000/mon (minimum)