The Korea Times has selected 18 Korean students for a scholarship exchange program to Ming Chuan University (MCU) in Taipei.

The nation’s oldest English daily yesterday held an orientation and a send-off ceremony for the students at the Hankook Ilbo building in Seoul.

Chen Yeong-cho, representative of the Taipei Mission in Korea, Shia Guang-hui, political counselor, Chao Yich-hong, press secretary, Park Moo-jong, president-publisher of The Korea Times, Lee Sang-seok, vice president of The Korea Times, and Sha Tsan-son, director of MCU Seoul office, participated in the ceremony to encourage the students.

Scholarship will be supported by the Taiwan education ministry, and the selected students will attend regular courses at the school from Sept. 11.

“I will well organize a study plan there and do my best to master English and Chinese,’’ said Park Min-seon, one of the students to go abroad.

The second batch of scholarship beneficiaries will be recruited at the end of this year.

Ming Chuan University, founded in 1957, has three distinctive campuses accommodating about 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students. More than 300 foreign students from 59 countries are studying under the university’s overseas studies program that is conducted in both English and Chinese.

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