KGSP Interview FAQ: Embassy Track

1. Please introduce yourself.

2. How would you describe yourself?

3. If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be?

4. Why did you apply for this program?

5. Why should we consider you a strong applicant for this program?

6. Have you been to Korea? What do you know about Korea?

7. Tell us a little bit about the reasons why Korea is separated? Which Korea was supported

by Russia?

8. What do you think of Korea?

9. Why do you want to study in Korea? Why not USA or England?

10. How did you find out about this scholarship?

11. Have you applied for any scholarships before?

12. What are the universities that you applied for and what are the majors?

13. Why did you choose these universities?

14. Why did you choose this major?

15. What do you think about your academic achievement in the university?

16. What did you do in university? Any co-curricular activities?

17. What’s your biggest achievement?

18. What awards did you receive in your university period?

19. Explain about your degree theses and paper

20. What do you want to do with your degree?

21. Explain more about the research field you are interested in

22. What have you been doing since studying at the university?

23. What plans do you have after finishing your course?

24. When you go back to your country, how do you see yourself in 3/4 years?

25. What kind of experience do you have concerning Korea, Korean culture/Korean language?

26. What would be the most difficult part of being in Korea? How will you overcome it?

27. How did you learn Korean?

28. How are you going to adjust to the language barrier?

29. Are you sure you can do the one-year language course before university?

30. Studying Korean language seems to be difficult; how will you handle this problem for

yourself?

31. Give a positive and negative thing about Korea.

32. What would you do if you get homesick?

33. How do you deal with conflict?

34. What would you do if you misunderstand someone and think you are being attacked?

35. If someone makes inappropriate comments about you; how will you react to it?

36. What would you do if a person tells you "I don't like you"?

37. If you have an exam in the same day that your mother is really sick...what would you do?

Would you go to take the exam or stay with your mother?

38. By providing examples, convince me that you can adapt to a wide variety of people,

situations and environments.

39. Are you emotionally prepared for this?

40. Is there anything else about you that we should know? Anything else you’d like to say?