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Land:
Suedkorea

Universität:
Inha University

Semester und Studiengang:
4. Semester Bachelor International Management

Aufenthalt:
summersemester 2017

Über die Universität:
Inha University (located in Incheon and close to Seoul) offers a big variety of courses. Just search for courses that are offered in general at Inha University for the Learning agreement. The actual courses that are offered in your period of studies will be posted online only a couple of weeks before the semester starts. Although the list of courses in English is rather long, you want to chose carefully. There is a period at the beginning of the lecture period when you can add or drop courses, which is really convenient.
They also have an online portal like the iLearn where you can see each course plan with the exam dates for midterm and final term.

University in Korea is more like school because you have things like attendance, participation, group work and homework. The level of the courses depends on what courses you have chosen, quite a few are more on the easy side, but ist still very time consuming due to the group works and presentations.

When you apply to Inha, you can tell them if you want a buddy or not. I must say that I just met my buddy once, but if your lucky you might get one who is really nice and has time for hanging out.

Betreuung vor Ort:
The staff at the International Office is very nice and always tries to help you with offical problems like courses and so on, but the actual support is provided by I.S.L., a group of Korean students that organizes get togethers for exchange students and activities, like day trips and they assist with personal problems like where to get a simcard or where to eat. Before you get there they offer a free pick up shuttle, which was really convenient, but totally unorganized. They didn't expect so many students and especially not so many suitcases.

I decided to live in the dormitory and I loved my room and my roommates. The breakfast is included, but very early (7.30-9:20) when you don't have classes in the morning. They offer a Korean and an international breakfast, but its gone if you don't wake up early. The dormitory is half of the price of what off campus people pay. But on the other hand the dorm has a finger print entrance and also a curve few (or locking period), which is from 12am-5am and during exam period from 2am-5am.
The bathroom is really big, with toilets on the left side, the sinks with mirrors in the middle and the showers with curtains on the right side. It can get very messy, in the evening or late morning as everyone on that floor will use the bathroom, so be there in the morning after the cleaning lady was there.
You make friends everywhere, so it doesn't matter if you stay in dormitory with foreigners or live next door with foreigners.

Tipps:
There are so many things you have to consider, but just do it and experience everything on your own. Go out as much as possible and see as much as possible.
Korea has a lot to offer and it is always good to have some Korean friends, because they are really nice, and can help you out with the Korean language. Korea is a rather "western" country that might be the best one to start with in Asia.
Try to get a simcard as soon as possible. There is free wifi everywhere, but it is only assessible with a Korean simcard.
Get the metro app of Seoul (Incheon is included), because it's the way to get around in Korea and it's super cheap.
You have to buy your own bed sheets, pillows and blankets, which you can buy in the big supermarket "Homeplus". It doesn't matter where you live.