Para os que estao interessados em vir estudar na Coreia, leiam esse artigo publicado pelo Korea Times.NAO ME PERGUNTEM SOBRE TRADUCAO OU SOBRE A MINHA OPINIAO.[Voice] Are international students adapting to Korea?With the government aiming for 200,000 by 2020...The number of students from abroad choosing to study in Korea has risen considerably in recent years as the country has become increasingly internationalized. There were almost 90,000 foreign exchange students in the country in 2011, according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The ministry has sought to encourage the trend, setting a target of 200,000 students in the country by 2020 as part of efforts to transform Korea into an educational hub of Asia. The interest in Korea as a place to study over the last decade would seem to give the government reason to be optimistic about reaching its goal. Korea had fewer than 17,000 international students in 2004. But the arrival of students from more than 170 different countries has presented its own challenges, from how well foreign students adapt to Korean life and are accepted, to questionable admission procedures from unscrupulous universities and issues surrounding coursework and student support.SupportThe National Institute for International Education Development, operated under the Education Ministry, is the principal agency for the recruitment and support of international students.Lee Byeong-yun, director of the International Student Support Team at NIIED, said that the organization provided substantial support to international students in the form of financial assistance, counseling and information about Korea. One of the first ways that we provide support is we give scholarships to students who also fund their own studies, said Lee through a written statement. They dont have financial support when they come here but they receive either high scores or their attitude or behavior is really good and they have been recommended by people at the university as being excellent students. Last year some 200 students received the scholarship and 400 students are receiving it this year, he noted.But perceptions of Korean academia dont always match the reality encountered by international students, according to Sara Rai, the manager of Korea International Student Support Association.International students, mostly under Korean government scholarships, who chose Korea over other nations complain that they feel duped. Before they came to Korea, they were told most of the classes related to their major would be conducted in English. Once they were here, the situation was just the opposite, said Rai. As a result of the language barrier, their academic performance suffers, she said.Even though they are required to take Korean language for a year or more, it is not good enough to understand a university level lecture on specialized topics like IT or molecular biology, Rai said. They do not learn or they learn very little about the subject matter.When problems do arise, Rai said, there may be few avenues for recourse.Sometimes the so-called professors lack proper teaching methods or even proper knowledge on the subject matter, she said. Professors have full authority on grading. Often, when students ask for feedback on grades or a grade to be