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The number of South Korean students in the U.S. exceeded the 100,000 mark for the first time late last year. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) on Tuesday, the South Korean students in the U.S. numbered 103,394 as of late 2007. That amounts to 14 percent of foreign students in the U.S.
South Koreans are the largest group of foreign students in the U.S. for a second straight year. The number of South Korean students there totaled 93,728 at the end of 2006. But their ranks swelled by nearly 10,000 in just a year, posting a ten percent growth for three consecutive years since 2005.
Students from India (88,051) were the largest group after South Koreans, followed by students from China (72,190), Japan (41,853), Taiwan (32,897), Canada (31,866), Mexico (14,922), Turkey (12,632), Thailand (11,724), and Saudi Arabia (10,708). SEVIS tracks and monitors schools and programs, students, exchange visitors and their dependents throughout the duration of approved participation within the U.S. education system.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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