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Korean Ph.D. graduates head overseas on promise of all-round better conditions
“Once you master English, it’s almost inevitable — you get your Ph.D. and head overseas. The United States is still the top choice, but China has come a long way and draws a lot of interest too,” says a Ph.D. candidate in AI at KAIST.
Korean STEM researchers are increasingly looking to China as a preferrable country to work in addition to the United States as companies there offer incentives not provided in Korea. “A Chinese display company once offered me a package deal including a high salary, housing, education for my kids and living expenses,” the researcher said on the condition of anonymity. Um Mi-jung, director of the Science and Technology Human Resources Policy Center, noted, “We shouldn’t be asking why people left Korea, but why anyone stayed.”
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