By Kyuseok (KS) Kim, Center Director with IES Abroad South Korean higher education, particularly at regional universities, is confronted with a complex and multifaceted issue: educationally inflected labour migration. As of 2024, the country hosts approximately 208,962 international students. A significant proportion of these students come from low-income countries, including Vietnam (56,003 students), Mongolia (12,317),ContinueContinue reading “Exporting the Dream, Importing Precarity: South-to-South Student Migration in Korea”
