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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Two get scholarships to pursue Master’s in Korea

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Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Moonup Sung with the scholarship awardees Afeisha Taitt and Curmairah Cambridge.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Moonup Sung with the scholarship awardees Afeisha Taitt and Curmairah Cambridge.

Two Trinida­di­an stu­dents have been award­ed the 2019 Ko­re­an Gov­ern­ment Schol­ar­ship to pur­sue Mas­ter’s De­grees in Ko­rea.

The Em­bassy of the Re­pub­lic of Ko­rea made the an­nounce­ment via a news re­lease yes­ter­day.

This year’s schol­ar­ship win­ners are Afeisha Taitt who was se­lect­ed to pur­sue a Mas­ter’s De­gree in Bio­med­ical Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy at the Konkuk Uni­ver­si­ty and Cur­mairah Cam­bridge who was se­lect­ed to pur­sue a Mas­ter’s De­gree in Clin­i­cal Psy­chol­o­gy at the Keimyung Uni­ver­si­ty.

The state­ment said that the Ko­re­an Gov­ern­ment through the Na­tion­al In­sti­tute for In­ter­na­tion­al Ed­u­ca­tion’s (NI­IED) Glob­al Ko­rea Schol­ar­ship (GKS) pro­gramme of­fers schol­ar­ships to for­eign stu­dents who wish to fur­ther pur­sue their un­der­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate de­grees at Ko­re­an ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions.

The Ko­re­an Gov­ern­ment schol­ar­ships are se­lect­ed based on aca­d­e­m­ic mer­it and will cov­er the full cost of study in­clud­ing one year of study for the Ko­re­an lan­guage.

The state­ment said both stu­dents have ex­pressed their keen in­ter­est to study in Ko­rea and are look­ing for­ward to ex­plor­ing Ko­re­an cul­ture and lan­guage while fur­ther­ing their ed­u­ca­tion­al goals.

They will be­gin their two-year de­gree pro­grammes in Sep­tem­ber of this year with one ad­di­tion­al year al­lo­cat­ed to study­ing the Ko­re­an lan­guage to fa­mil­iar­ize with their new en­vi­ron­ment and stu­dent life in Ko­rea. On Au­gust 13, Am­bas­sador Moonup Sung in­vit­ed the awardees to a lun­cheon at his of­fi­cial res­i­dence in which he of­fered en­cour­ag­ing ad­vice and use­ful in­for­ma­tion for their stay in Ko­rea.


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