Seoul Expands Selection of Foreign Science and Engineering Scholars, Strengthens Settlement Support
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According to AI TIMES, the Seoul Metropolitan Government on September 21 finalized the selection of 28 foreign master's students in science…
According to AI TIMES, the Seoul Metropolitan Government on September 21 finalized the selection of 28 foreign master's students in science and engineering majoring in future core industries such as AI and robotics as recipients of the "Seoul Tech Scholarship." The scholars will receive up to KRW 20 million a year, and starting this year, the program will go beyond simply providing scholarships to also link them with employment and entrepreneurship education and support for settling in Seoul. The project is being run with the goal of securing and cultivating overseas talent needed for Seoul's future industries in advance. In particular, the selection pool has been expanded beyond the previous scope to cover the entire world, and the selection system has been revised to take into account major fields, Korean language skills, and the likelihood of settling in Seoul. The selected students will study core-industry-related majors in graduate schools in Seoul and will also receive support for adjustment to daily life, internships, job placement, and entrepreneurship. Through this, the Seoul Metropolitan Government made clear its direction of connecting outstanding talent not only to their studies but also to the regional industrial ecosystem after graduation.
Perspective
The key point of this program is not the scholarship itself, but the fact that talent attraction policy is shifting from education support to an industrial settlement strategy. Rather than simply bringing in students, it ties selection criteria, daily-life adjustment, and job and startup linkage into a single flow, making the competition among cities to secure talent more sophisticated. In the end, this approach can be read as an attempt to keep workers needed by core industries in the region for the long term, and it could serve as a benchmark for other regions and institutions facing similar concerns.
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