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Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) - Graduate Degree (Master's / PhD)

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Partner universities · South Korea · Post Graduate

What it coversFull tuition (NIIED support up to KRW 5,000,000) + monthly allowance of KRW 1,000,000 + round-trip airfare +
DestinationSouth Korea
LevelPost Graduate
CategoryGovernment
Next deadlineNot published yet
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Deadlines for this scholarship

An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.

No closing date published. This funder sets its closing date per country, or opens the call only when the cycle begins. Send us your documents and we will apply the moment your country’s window opens.


Who can apply

Yes - embassy track (General) and university track (incl. R-GKS for developing countries) both cover Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the Gulf states; the Korean embassy or the GKS-designated university sets the country/institution deadline.


What the award is

Korean Government (MOE/NIIED) fully funded scholarship for graduate study, taken as about 1 year of Korean-language training plus a 2-3 year master's/doctoral degree. Applied via the embassy track or the university track; graduate applications typically open around February-March each year. Benefits per the official programme page: round-trip airfare, KRW 1,000,000 monthly allowance, KRW 200,000 settlement allowance, KRW 210,000-240,000 research allowance, tuition support and medical insurance. No dated closing for the round applying now was posted, so deadline is left blank. Official source: https://graduate2.korea.ac.kr/scholarship/gkscholarships.html (checked 29 October 2026). In full: settlement allowance + research allowance.

Where these dates came from

Study in Korea (NIIED/MOEU) publishes the graduate schedule in months only - Announcement NIIED "Application Period : February", Application Submission "February - March", Review "April - June", Final Results "June" - so the 2027-entry embassy round is expected February-March 2027 with no day-level date, and none of Pakistan/India/Bangladesh/UAE/Qatar/Saudi Arabia/Oman closing dates appears on the funder page - https://www.studyinkorea.go.kr/en/plan/scholarship.do (checked 30 October 2026); all date columns left blank.

Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.


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