Applications are invited from Indian nationals for the award of scholarships to Indian students offered by the Government of Republic of Korea, at Master’s level, Ph. D. level in Bio-technology, Environment Science, Molecular Biology, Computer Application, Architecture, Agronomy, Information Technology, Korean Language & Literature and International Co-operation.
Age should not exceeding 40 years for Master’s & Ph.D. respectively as on 1-9-2009. Please note that Candidates who have received Korean Scholarship at any time are not eligible.

Applicants must have already earned or expected to receive: (a) a bachelor’s degree with 60% of marks or equivalent prior to August 31, 2009, in order to apply for Master’s Programme; (b) a Master’s degree with 60% of marks prior to August 31, 2009 in order to apply for an advanced programme (doctoral degree; Ph.D.

Master’s degree programme will last for about 2 years (excluding a 1 year Korean Language course) and Ph.D. programme is about 3 years (excluding a 1 year Korean Language course).

Value of Scholarship:
(i) Monthly Allowance: Upon arrival and registration at National Institute for International Education Development (NIIED) , the awardee will be provided with 900,000 won per month to cover living expenses for the period of his or her programme.

(ii) Tuition Fees: Scholars under the auspices of Korean Government are subject for a tuition waiver: full tuition fee is exempted by the Government and the full entrance fee is exempted by the host institution.

(iii) Research Allowance (Additional Payment): Includes costs for textbooks and other literature, student association membership, dissertation review, and so on; it is only granted to those who take a degree course or a research course.
Humanities: 210,000 won per semester
Natural Sciences, Arts or Physical Education: 240,000 won per semester

(iv) Settlement Allowance: An awardee will be paid 200,000 won upon arrival.

(v) Language Training Expenses: the NIIED will pay the entrusted language training institution the full cost up to 1 year.

(vi) Dissertation Printing Costs: Up to 500,000 won will be reimbursed for the costs related to a dissertation printing.

(vii) Medical Insurance: 15000 won per month.

Application on plain paper (as per format given below) alongwith the required photocopies of documents with a recent passport size photograph pasted on the application should reach the ‘Section Officer, Es.3 Section, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, A.1/W.3, Curzon Road Barracks, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110 001’ latest by 5.30 PM on 30-4-2009.

Application can also submitted on-line at the Department’s website www.education.nic.in by 30-4-2009. In case of on-line applications, Hard Copy of the application in the prescribed format along with required documents should be submitted by 10-05-2009, otherwise on-line applications will not be entertained.

Source: http://education.nic.in/scho_announcements/Korean-2009.asp