Can I enter college/university in SEOUL, Korea with a US GED?
First of all, check with a university admissions counselor to be exactly sure since each university varies. GED still means you graduated from high school, so it shouldn't matter. HOWEVER, your situation is complicated. You are a Korean citizen, thus you will be subject to the same procedures as other Koreans. Since you are a Korea citizen, you cannot apply as an international student. All international students must have a certain TOPIK score, a test which defines your proficiency in Korean and guarantees that you understand Korean to a certain level.
Underwood International College?
I don't have an answer to your question, but it made me think about something that happened in my life. I'm an American of Irish descent. I got a job teaching English in Yang Pyong, about thirty miles from Seoul. In Seoul, there was a hiking club for English speakers and Koreans. I went on a hike and we all got lost, which was fine with me. I had a great time, but it pissed a lot of people off. One of our unfortunate Korean guides gave a little talk while we were resting. She said that Koreans didn't always go hiking. Hiking was introduced to Korea by an Englishman named Underwood, who founded a college. When I was there, almost twenty years ago, Koreans were definitely into hiking. Some of them would put on silly Tyrolean outfits. People laughed, but it was perfectly harmless. What's wrong with having a little fun. I loved the Korean people and I loved their way of writing. I learned to read Korean in two hours. It puts our way of writing to shame. When I was there, the whole country looked like a big Christmas tree farm. Apparently they had cut all the trees down for fire wood and they were growing some new ones. Tell a nation of rice farmers it's their patriotic duty to plant trees and they won't let you down. They were almost all pine trees. Pine trees only take about twenty years to grow, so it must be a forest by now. I put my heart and soul into learning the Korean language and I was totally defeated. For one thing, I was 46 years old when I started, which is too old to learn a new language, and then I got sick and had to go home. Apparently I was poisoned by insecticide.
Is Hanyang University a good college in South Korea?
Yes. It's good Univ. Especially, an engineering college is very good.
Is college free in South Korea?
KAIST is, but you have to pay about $200 a month for dorms, which are largely subsidized by the government.Tuition is not horrendously expensive. According to Korean government statistics, the costs can run $2,000-$7,000/semester, depending on one's course of study and whether the university is public or private. Study in Korea - Korea Government
To what university or liberal arts college in the United States would you compare Yonsei University's Underwood International College to?
I am currently a student at Underwood International College, hence my answer could be biased. I agree with Avery Morrow's comment that UIC has its own unique structure, but I deemed it possible to compare UIC to other US universities by mainly considering these few factors:Acceptance rate: UIC has an acceptance rate of 10~15%. Schools that students transfer here from/transfer away to: I know of students transferring from schools that range from Cornell/UCB to Calvin College/University of Washington etc. I haven't seen anyone transfer away to a US university yet, because the main factor that brings such talented students to UIC is its lower cost. However, I've seen some transfer to colleges in the UK, mainly LSE, Imperial College London, UCL etc. Schools that students rejected to come here: Harvard (WL), Columbia, Dartmouth, UCB, UMich are some of the top schools I've heard, a lowly ranked few I've heard were Boston, UCI, Purdue, UIUC etc.From my extremely broad perspective, UIC is similar to Emory, UCB, Duke, Rice and Georgetown etc. US schools where top students would apply as a match/safety and middle-high tier high school students would apply as a match. My conclusion was not derived only through these 3 reasons, but through a complex combination of many other factors such as my experience here, educational and recreational facilities etc. I listed the 3 reasons only because they were principal and easy to write about.
Does Yonsei University or Korea University fit in??
first your GPA and SAT is too low to be even on the same level of academic status as the other Korean students have, no offense, but from my school a guy had similar stats as you : 2.5 GPA, and 1400 sat and got rejected but this student had a 4.0 GPA got in. Secondly, you might want to know that international students can get in really easily but i think there is a standard or else why would they reject the guy with the 2.5 GPA right? and international students aren't the same as the ones in korea who actually got accepted to those universities since its much much harder for them so you may want to look at colleges below S.K.Y since they are the top uni's = equivalent to Harvard Yale and Princeton and all the Ivy Leagues, and if you go to "crappy" colleges i assume you have to work less because i'm pretty sure the in SNU, YU, KU students work their asses off. Also, your application is competed with other international applicants, for the field in education not to ruin your hopes or anything but i'm just saying its not "I can easily get into prestigious colleges in Korea" like you said.
Which is better in engineering, South Korean college vs. USA college? Are Korean universities recognized internationally?
Both countries have excellent Universities offering majors in engineering. Check out KAIST in Korea. It has a worldwide reputation for excellence. There are of course outstanding university in the US such as Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, etc.KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.