Gwangju Buk-gu Selects 200 Local Talented Students as Scholarship Recipients

On the 15th, Gwangju Metropolitan City Buk-gu and the Gwangju Buk-gu Scholarship Foundation announced that they will recruit scholarship students starting from the 16th to implement the scholarship project.

Buk-gu's scholarship project is a program that discovers outstanding local talents and provides scholarships in collaboration with the Buk-gu Scholarship Foundation to realize warm educational welfare. It started in 2008 and has been carried out annually.

This year, the number of selected students is a total of 200, including 151 university students, 39 high school students, and 10 out-of-school youth, which is a 38% (55 students) increase compared to the previous year.

Applicants for this scholarship must have resided in Buk-gu for more than one year as of the announcement date and are divided into four categories: ▲Academic Excellence Scholarship ▲Low-income Scholarship ▲Special Talent Scholarship ▲Companion Scholarship.

The scholarship students will be finally selected through the Buk-gu Scholarship Foundation’s review and resolution according to the criteria for each recruitment category by November. The selected students will receive scholarships totaling 307.6 million KRW in December, with 2 million KRW per comprehensive university student, 1.3 million KRW per junior college student, and 500,000 KRW each for high school students and out-of-school youth.

Residents wishing to apply for the scholarship can refer to the announcement posted on the Buk-gu Office website and apply at their local administrative welfare center or the Buk-gu Scholarship Foundation by the 31st.

A Buk-gu official stated, "We will continue to support our local students to freely demonstrate their talents and pursue the future they desire in collaboration with the Buk-gu Scholarship Foundation."

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