International Studies: Korean Language and Culture, bachelor's (freshmen only; taught in Korean and English)
Hanbat Spring 2027 international undergraduate guide (Korean, August 2026; notice of 2026-09-01) ↗Checked 21 October 2026
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What can I study?
- Major in Korean Language and Culture
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What do I need?
- Education check consent (form 1) and the study expense pledge (form 2), the school's own forms
- Language proof for your route: TOPIK or TOPIK IBT report; a regular Korean course completion (or expected) certificate and transcript; KIIP papers; King Sejong certificate; or IELTS or TOEFL iBT plus TOPIK
- International Studies: IELTS, TOEFL iBT or Duolingo report (Korean Language and Culture may use the Korean proofs instead)
- Passport copy. Residents in Korea: alien registration card, front and back
- High school graduation (or expected) certificate, 1 copy, and the transcript for all three years, 1 copy, each with an apostille or consular confirmation
- As printed for schools in China: "중국 학교의 경우 졸업증명서만 인정 ('예정' 증명서 미인정)" (a final graduation certificate only, no expected-graduation certificate)
- A government certificate equal to a family relation certificate (for example an English birth certificate) showing father, mother and you
- Bank balance certificate issued within 30 days of filing (see the notes)
- Transfers add the university graduation or completion certificate and transcript, 1 copy each, with an apostille or consular confirmation if from abroad
- Expected Korean course completers add an attendance certificate. Applicants abroad who cannot pay online add the application form (form 3)
THE BANK BALANCE: applicants abroad, USD 18,000 or more in your own or a parent's name. Applicants living in Korea, 16,000,000 won or more in your own Korean account; Hanbat's own language trainees, 8,000,000 won or more.
As printed for one group: "국내거주 중인 화교 학생은 서류제출 생략" (overseas Chinese students living in Korea file no bank certificate). The certificate goes in with the papers, by 18 December 2026.
Application fee 60,000 won (4,000 won site fee included), by card, bank deposit or internet banking. No cancellation or refund after payment, except a disaster or a reason that is not your fault. Applicants who fail the eligibility check get no refund.
Applicants abroad who cannot pay online: ask foreign@hanbat.ac.kr for the account, send the fee in won, send the receipt within 5 days of paying (weekends and holidays excluded), and post the printed form 3 with the papers.
Papers: in person on weekdays 09:00 to 18:00, or by post. Post inside Korea counts by the 18 December postmark; post from abroad must ARRIVE by 18 December. Registered mail, EMS or DHL advised.
Every paper, the application form included, must be in by the deadline or you fail. Not filing the financial or education proof, or failing its check, also fails. Papers are not returned, even if you fail.
More papers may be asked. Scores and reasons for failing are not disclosed. The guide advises finishing the online application 3 days before the deadline. Leftover admission-fee income, if any, is refunded in proportion.
English list, whole, as the English guide prints it (p.6). Majority native English-speaking: South Africa, New Zealand, United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada.
English as official language: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta,
Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland (Eswatini), Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The Korean guide (p.6, which prevails) lists the same countries in Korean; it writes Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as "세인트빈센트, 그레나딘" and Swaziland as "스와질란드", with no "Eswatini".
As printed: "중국 일반고등학교 졸업생은 중국 고등교육 학위인증 기관의 홈페이지 '学信网'에서 발급하는 '中国中等教育学历验证报告'를 제출해야 하며, 그 외의 고등학교(실업계고, 예술계고 등) 졸업생은 졸업장을 공증받은 후, 공증본에 성(省) 외교부 인증과 주(駐)중국 한국대사관 또는 영사관에서 확인(도장)을 받은 후 제출".
As printed: "베트남 고등학교 졸업생은 졸업장을 공증받은 후 베트남 외교부 확인증과 주(駐)베트남 한국대사관 또는 영사관에서 확인(도장)을 받은 후 제출(단, 졸업장 공증본에 베트남 외교부 확인증만 받았을 경우 졸업장 공증본에 주(駐)한국 베트남대사관에서 확인증을 받아 제출)".
In English (English guide): general high schools in China file the CHSI verification report; other Chinese high schools and high schools in Vietnam file a notarised diploma with the foreign ministry and Korean consulate stamps described.
Tuition from abroad when the Korean virtual account cannot be used: ask foreign@hanbat.ac.kr for the account, send won in the window, and send the receipt within 5 days (weekends and holidays excluded).
For applicants living abroad, the school takes 7 days (weekends and holidays excluded) to confirm the tuition payment (guide p.14).
Results 15 January 2027 after 15:00 on the admission site, no individual notice. The admission letter for the D-2 visa comes from the Office of International Affairs after tuition is paid (+82-42-821-1395).
The admission letter is issued only to students who complete registration; more education or financial papers may be asked by a deadline. Check the D-2 visa papers on your Korean embassy's site.
Dormitory (guide): Dormitory 1 (BTL) double room, 680,000 won plus two compulsory meals a day 757,990 won = 1,437,990 won, utilities included, 2026 first-semester basis (meals for 115 days). Your department sends the applications and the fees in one batch.
The dormitory office's own notice for the 2026 second semester prints the same figures. Students of AI Software (Sejong joint campus) can apply to the Sejong campus happy dormitory on its own site.
From the official guide. The school decides what it accepts, not Waegook.
All requirements
- SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (Nomad College): a department only for international students (정원외 외국인유학생 전담학과). Freshmen only. Its admissions run through the Office of International Affairs (+82-42-828-8656)
- If you meet none of the language rules, the interview can count instead: applicants judged able in the language there are treated as meeting the rule (guide exception)
- LANGUAGE, one of: the Korean route (TOPIK 3, TOPIK IBT 3, a university Korean course finished, KIIP stage 3 or pre-test 61, King Sejong intermediate 1, not online), OR IELTS 5.5, TOEFL iBT 71, Duolingo 100
- Or "영어를 모국어로 사용하는 국가의 국적 소지자*" (nationals of an English mother-tongue country on the guide's list). Classes are taught in Korean and English (guide note)
- You and both parents are foreign nationals (Higher Education Act decree, art. 29(2)6). Dual nationals cannot apply. You and your parents must all have taken foreign nationality before you began high-school-level study
- If a parent has died, that parent's nationality is not counted; only your own foreign nationality is checked (guide note)
- FRESHMEN: you finished abroad all schooling equal to Korean primary and secondary school. Homeschooling and cyber learning are not accepted
- Still in a Korean course's last term: a conditional pass; send the transcript and attendance record after the course to be finally admitted
- Only language scores taken on or after 18 December 2024 count (2 years before the document deadline). The guide prints the older TOEFL scale only
- Selection: documents checked pass or fail, then an interview worth 100% (under 60 points fails) on study attitude, study ability in the major (languages included) and aptitude
- Interview 6 January 2027, face to face. Applicants abroad may ask for an online interview (Zoom, Skype) by e-mail to foreign@hanbat.ac.kr by 27 December 2026 (test call planned for 4 January); without it you sit the interview in person
- Missing the interview fails. Bring the exam ticket (printed from the application site) and ID (alien registration card or passport). Interview notices come at the end of December 2026 on the admission site
- In-person interviews: wait in building S0 (International Hall) and be in the waiting room by the notified time; no entry after it. Sitting for someone else, false facts or cheating fail
- One department only; applying to two cancels both. Places are not numbered: each unit selects by study ability
- TUITION a semester, 2026 first-semester rates (2027 tuition will be set by the tuition committee): 2,329,400 engineering, IT, design, AI and Nomad College; 1,971,180 humanities and social sciences; 1,863,270 business
- No entrance fee is printed in the guide. Tuition is paid from 18 January 2027 10:00 to 25 January 16:00 into a personal KB virtual account, in won only; unpaid means the place is lost
- Questions on paying tuition: the guide lists the Office of Admissions at +82-42-821-8641 (N1 building, 3rd floor) for this task, a different line from the admission questions number +82-42-828-8641
- Full-scholarship students (bill of 0 won) must still confirm registration online (등록동의), or the place is lost
- Admitted to more than one university: register at one only; registering at two cancels every admission. After you give up registration you cannot register again
- Admission is cancelled, even after the admission letter, if an eligibility defect is found or entry to Korea is not permitted (guide PDF p.16)
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Where this comes from
- Hanbat Spring 2027 international undergraduate guide (Korean, August 2026; notice of 2026-09-01) ↗Checked 21 October 2026
- Admissions notice of 2026-09-01: Spring 2027 international special admission guide (Korean and English PDFs, forms) ↗Supports: newest guide, dates, contacts · Checked 21 October 2026
- Spring 2027 undergraduate guide, English version (the Korean text is used where they differ) ↗Supports: English version, unit names, country list · Checked 21 October 2026
- Admissions notice of 2026-10-14: Spring 2027 key dates and online application manual ↗Supports: dates repeated · Checked 21 October 2026
- International admission notice board (newest posts 2026-09-01 and 2026-10-14) ↗Supports: newest guide check · Checked 21 October 2026
- School tuition page: 2026 tuition per semester (학기제, 1학기당 등록금); 8 semesters, Architecture 10 ↗Supports: tuition period, course length · Checked 21 October 2026
- Dormitory office notice of 2026-07-16: 2026 second-semester dormitory recruitment (full fee table) ↗Supports: dormitory fees · Checked 21 October 2026
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