RoK firm grants scholarships to Vietnamese students

Five Vietnamese are among 89 students from 34 countries in the Republic of Korea (RoK) receiving scholarships from the Woojung Education and Culture Foundation (WECF) of Booyoung Group in the first semester of 2022.
Headquarters of Booyoung Group in the Republic of Korea. (Source: booyoung.vn)
Headquarters of Booyoung Group in the Republic of Korea. (Source: booyoung.vn)

The total funding for the 89 excellent students is valued at some 350 million KRW (318,000 USD).

Since its establishment in 2010, the WECF has so far granted scholarships worth some 8.3 billion KRW to 2,115 foreign students from 41 nations. There were 306 Vietnamese students among the scholarship recipients.

In Viet Nam, the Booyoung Group has donated 10,000 digital pianos and 205,744 blackboards and supported the construction of the Phan Chu Trinh junior high school in the central Quang Nam province and the Ha Dong primary school in Ha Noi.

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(Source: VNA)