Every GKS quota, one table.

How to read this data

GKS selects scholars through two routes. On the embassy track, each partner country receives its own quota and the Korean embassy there screens candidates. Those per-country quotas are what this table shows for GKS-U (undergraduate) and GKS-G (graduate). On the university track, applicants apply directly to a Korean university. For undergraduates the university track is not split by nationality, so it does not appear here. For graduates the 2026 guidelines do publish per-country university-track allocations for the General and R-GKS strands, shown in the last two columns.

The Research program admits 5 scholars from 149 countries (no per-country split). The R&D and Global Network specialization programs are open to all countries. The graduate tables also list Canada's Quebec allocation as its own row, and spell some country names differently from the undergraduate document (for example Turkiye and Turkey); we merge those into a single country entry.

Quotas are set per application cycle. These figures are from the 2026 guidelines, the most recent published. NIIED usually announces the next undergraduate cycle in September and the graduate cycle in February. Historically, totals shift only slightly year to year, but individual country allocations do change; always confirm against the newest guidelines before applying.

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You are welcome to reuse this table and the CSV or JSON files with attribution to NIIED (the primary source) and KoreaAdmit (this compilation). A suggested citation:

Global Korea Scholarship quotas by country (2026). Compiled by KoreaAdmit from the official NIIED application guidelines. https://www.koreaadmit.com/gks/quotas