1. Eligibility

• 1) Hold a full-time general high school (upper secondary) diploma; or equivalent eucational qualification or higher level education
• 2) Eighteen (18) years or older

2. Application process

• ※ Amid or after admission review, the SLI office may ask you to submit an additional document not listed for application materials or have an interview with admission committee members. Successfully admitted students must pay the full amount of tuition charged.

• ※ A visa supporting material, SLI admission letter, is provided to students whose level placement is decided upon a placement test result. 

• ※ Visa application must be submitted by the student oneself to the Korean consulate or Korean Immigration Service.

[Session 1 admission letter e-mail delivery date]

• ※ Admission letter delivery date is decided by admitted students' application submission date.
• ※ Admission letter delivery date may be later than the above if students have missing documents. (Last date for admission letter: April 17)
• ※ A date for Suwon campus will be separately announced. 
• ※ Application may be closed earlier than an announced date due to program circumstances.

3. Requirements

• Foreigners other than Korean citizen, permanent resident, or Korean passport holder
• Applicants whose nationality other than Chinese (include Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) and Japanese must see the English website for admission.
• We do NOT permit our D-4 students' having part or full-time job during their registration period. No support is provided for students' job seeking or hiring process.

• Non-D4 Applicant must fall into one of the category or more below:
  • 1. Holding a passport of the country that visa waiver is applied to.
  • 2. Distance learner out of Korea
  • 3. Korean passport holder
  • 4. Application requirement

• D-4 Applicant
  • 1.Must arrive in Korea to attend in the program for 2 sessions or more
  • 2. Application requirement

**Certificate(Item#4) from non-Korean school must be certified by one of the followings:

1) Apostille

2) Consular legalization from the Korean Embassy in one's home country

[Contact for admission]

4. Admission Policy

• 1. Additional requirements or an interview may be required upon the SLI Admission Committee's decision.
• 2. SLI has a right to cancel admission or reject the application if the application materials are turned out to be forged or unauthentic, with no tuition refund. This is still applicable for admitted students who have started studying at SLI.
• 3. All submitted materials must be either Korean or English. The applicant must submit document notarized /translated in Korean or English if the original copy is not in Korean or English.
• 4. School records must be all certified by one of the followings:
  • 1) apostille
  • 2) confirmation from the Korean Embassy in your country
• 5. Materials submitted to the SLI shall NOT be returned for any reason.
• 6. Admission package is withheld until the tuition amount is fully paid.
• 7. Students' attendance is the most critical issues for their stay. If the attendance rate of a student is lower than 80%, his or her visa will be automatically canceled and reported to the Korean Immigration Office.

5. Tuition and Fees

• 1) Field trip cost is included in tuition.
• 2) Our non-refundable application fee is for new student only.
• 3) Textbook cost is not included.

4) Suwon students newly enrolled in 2023 2+1 Promotion Program must pay KRW3,460,000 up front.   

Lastly modified: 2 March 2023