Korea has became the destination of research and development for last few decades. As in Indian case, education system is borrowed by UK so in the case of Korea borrowed by US system. Normally 4 years of undergraduate study after 12 years of high school and then graduate study (Master 2 years, and Ph.D. 3 years and more).
Most of the professors are US educated have great command in their area and very helpful to the students (very exception in some area). They work too much and demand for the same from the students. It is very normal for a Korean professor to come at 9:00 am and left school by 10:00 pm. I observed one thing very interesting here about the outlook of the office. Normally Indian professors have small room, some books and rarely some other stuff. But Korean professors' room is full of books, and all daily needed stuffs even some time bed too. Probably, Indian professors room is not his/her headquarter but act as brach office and his/her head quarter must be in their home.
How they guide to graduate students?
That depend upon the professors, but in general all the professors have weekly meetings. For example, my professor use to have meeting on every Saturday from 3:00 pm onwards. Few graduate students present their work in the meetings and get comment from the professor as well as peers students. I think it is good way to guide, every one has opportunity for presentation and that seminar is a kind of in-house seminar.
Beside that, they have special summer/winter class. Here, Normally semester lasts for 3.5 month and about 2.5 month break between semesters. In this vacation, students use to organize their time by this special summer/winter course beside summer/winter courses by university.
One more notable thing against India is about time limitation for thesis submission. You can submit your dissertation by semester wise based on your own programmed time. It means that if you want to submit thesis in particular fall/spring semester you have to inform and do all the papers work and then finally your thesis will be evaluated for that particular semester and you will be awarded degree.
Do they have coursework in graduate study?
Yes, normally for Master program we have to take 24 credits and for Ph.D. course we have to take 36 credits. Beside these credits, we have to pass language course (depending upon schools) and thesis qualifying exam. And after passing these requirments you will be called as 'doctoral candidate'.
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