By Yun Suh-young
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) said Wednesday it has started receiving applications for the 2012 ETS Scholarship Program for Korea.
It plans to provide scholarships worth 165 million won ($144,000) to 48 students (24 for TOEFL, 24 for TOEIC), up from 30 last year (15 for each test category). Each student will receive about 3.4 million won.
The application deadline is April 13, 2012, and the final candidates will be announced in May.
“We have selected outstanding students from Korea for the scholarship program since 2008,” said Walt MacDonald, executive vice president of ETS. “We are very proud to provide support to a pool of talented individuals from Korea to study both in Korea and abroad.”
Those eligible for the local scholarship are university students who currently live in Korea, have a TOEFL or TOEIC test score and have a GPA of 3.0 and above out of 4.0.
For more detailed information on the scholarship program, visit https://korea.etsasiapac.org/.