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Korean language programmes (D-4)
University Korean language institutes, ranked by how many language-programme students they have in the Ministry of Justice's records. The government's certification decides how your D-4 visa is screened.
Students from
- Vietnam49,638
- Mongolia4,068
- China3,812
- Myanmar (Burma)3,747
- Uzbekistan1,309
- Japan863
- Russia759
- Nepal726
- Kyrgyzstan585
- Taiwan422
- Sri Lanka353
- Bangladesh313
- United States236
- Tรผrkiye211
- France210
- Indonesia197
- Kazakhstan166
- Thailand132
- India108
- Pakistan106
- Ukraine85
- Hong Kong83
- Italy81
- Tajikistan80
- Malaysia78
- Iran65
- Spain55
- Germany54
- Kiribati54
- Cambodia45
| # | University | Language students | Visa screening | Tuition / term | Dorm / month | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chung-Ang University ์ค์๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 2,218of 4,880 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ255,000 | Website |
| 2 | Dongguk University ๋๊ตญ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 1,660of 3,825 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ290,200 | Website |
| 3 | Sun Moon University ์ ๋ฌธ๋ํ๊ต ยท Chungnam | 1,642of 3,086 international students | Certified | โฉ1,300,0002024.03.11~05.17 ยท 2023 | โฉ208,200 | Website |
| 4 | Hanyang University ํ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 1,528of 7,447 international students | Certified | $1,3001ํ๊ธฐ ๋น 10์ฃผ ๊ณผ์ ยท 2024 | โฉ181,300 | Website |
| 5 | Keimyung University ๊ณ๋ช
๋ํ๊ต ยท Daegu | 1,484of 3,698 international students | Certified | $9001๋ (4ํ๊ธฐ) ยท 2025 | โฉ92,800 | Website |
| 6 | Hannam University ํ๋จ๋ํ๊ต ยท Daejeon | 1,230of 1,754 international students | Certified | โฉ1,400,0002026.06.08.~2026.08.25 ยท 2026 | โฉ123,900 | Website |
| 7 | Gachon University ๊ฐ์ฒ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 1,112of 5,179 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ187,800 | โ |
| 8 | Yonsei University ์ฐ์ธ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 1,106of 3,930 international students | Certified | $1,3844ํ๊ธฐ/1๋ ยท 2020 | โฉ246,900 | Website |
| 9 | Dong-A University ๋์๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 1,103of 2,082 international students | Certified | $1,20010์ฃผ ยท 2018 | โฉ211,000 | Website |
| 10 | Ajou University ์์ฃผ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 1,082of 2,129 international students | Certified | โฉ1,400,00010์ฃผ ยท 2019 | โฉ198,200 | Website |
| 11 | Sungkyunkwan University ์ฑ๊ท ๊ด๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 917of 4,105 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ409,800 | Website |
| 12 | Kyungpook National University ๊ฒฝ๋ถ๋ํ๊ต ยท Daegu ยท all campuses | 895of 2,251 international students | Certified | $1,20010์ฃผ/ 1ํ๊ธฐ ยท 2025 | โฉ164,100 | Website |
| 13 | Sungshin Women's University ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 871of 1,501 international students | Certified | $1,17410์ฃผ(weeks) ยท 2024 | โฉ323,700 | Website |
| 14 | Seojeong University ์์ ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 832of 4,552 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ193,700 | โ |
| 15 | Kyung Hee University ๊ฒฝํฌ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 825of 4,866 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ270,900 | Website |
| 16 | Sogang University ์๊ฐ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 817of 2,240 international students | Certified | โฉ183,000์ฃผ 20์๊ฐ, ์ด 200์๊ฐ (์ฐ 4ํ๊ธฐ, 1ํ๊ธฐ 10์ฃผ) ยท 2025 | โฉ260,300 | Website |
| 17 | The Catholic University of Korea ๊ฐํจ๋ฆญ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi ยท all campuses | 791of 2,302 international students | Certified | $1,1103๊ฐ์(200์๊ฐ) ยท 2023 | โฉ209,700 | Website |
| 18 | Yeungnam University ์๋จ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 784of 2,766 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ195,700 | Website |
| 19 | Konkuk University ๊ฑด๊ตญ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 781of 3,217 international students | Certified | $1,50090 ยท 2022 | โฉ432,500 | Website |
| 20 | Gimcheon University ๊น์ฒ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 731of 1,069 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ108,800 | โ |
| 21 | Korea University ๊ณ ๋ ค๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 716of 4,480 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ251,200 | Website |
| 22 | Namseoul University ๋จ์์ธ๋ํ๊ต ยท Chungnam | 709of 1,943 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ144,000 | Website |
| 23 | Busan Institute of Science and Technology ๋ถ์ฐ๊ณผํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 689of 1,149 international students | Certified | $1,50015์ฃผ ยท 2016 | โฉ122,300 | โ |
| 24 | Inje University ์ธ์ ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongnam ยท all campuses | 681of 1,220 international students | Certified | $1,000์ต์1ํ๊ธฐ(10์ฃผ, 200์๊ฐ) ยท 2026 | โฉ121,500 | Website |
| 25 | Myongji University Natural Science Campus ๋ช
์ง๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi ยท all campuses | 678of 2,121 international students | Certified | $1,12010์ฃผ ยท 2024 | โฉ220,500 | Website |
| 26 | Sejong University ์ธ์ข
๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 648of 4,265 international students | Certified | $1,12210์ฃผ ยท 2025 | โฉ242,100 | Website |
| 27 | Seoul National University ์์ธ๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 647of 1,933 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ215,000 | โ |
| 28 | Incheon National University ์ธ์ฒ๋ํ๊ต ยท Incheon | 637of 999 international students | Certified | โฉ1,300,00010์ฃผ ยท 2026 | โฉ165,500 | Website |
| 29 | Mokwon University ๋ชฉ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Daejeon | 604of 1,573 international students | Certified | $1,7631๋ (2ํ๊ธฐ/4์ฟผํฐ) ยท 2025 | โฉ157,300 | Website |
| 30 | Pyeongtaek University ํํ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 594of 759 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ162,300 | โ |
| 31 | Sookmyung Women's University ์๋ช
์ฌ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 564of 1,228 international students | Certified | $1,20010์ฃผ ยท 2020 | โฉ288,100 | Website |
| 32 | Baekseok Culture University ๋ฐฑ์๋ฌธํ๋ํ๊ต ยท Chungnam | 559of 778 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ204,500 | Website |
| 33 | Inha University ์ธํ๋ํ๊ต ยท Incheon | 530of 2,258 international students | Certified | $1,2003~5์,6~8์,9~11์,12~2์ ยท 2025 | โฉ225,800 | Website |
| 34 | Kyungsung University ๊ฒฝ์ฑ๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 522of 2,124 international students | Certified | $2,20040์ฃผ ยท 2018 | โฉ243,600 | Website |
| 35 | Seoul Theological University ์์ธ์ ํ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 519of 745 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ193,500 | Website |
| 36 | Dongseo University ๋์๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 512of 1,625 international students | Certified | $81110์ฃผ(ํ ํ๊ธฐ) ยท 2026 | โฉ143,500 | Website |
| 37 | Kyungmin University ๊ฒฝ๋ฏผ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 510of 1,150 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ298,100 | Website |
| 38 | Bucheon University ๋ถ์ฒ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 510of 638 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ244,600 | Website |
| 39 | Jeonju Vision University ์ ์ฃผ๋น์ ๋ํ๊ต ยท Jeonbuk | 508of 985 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ210,600 | โ |
| 40 | Kyungil University ๊ฒฝ์ผ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 501of 1,365 international students | Certified | $940๊ณผ์ ๋ณ 50์ผ(200์๊ฐ) ยท 2024 | โฉ133,000 | Website |
| 41 | Pai Chai University ๋ฐฐ์ฌ๋ํ๊ต ยท Daejeon | 499of 980 international students | Certified | โฉ1,300,00010์ฃผ ยท 2025 | โฉ137,900 | Website |
| 42 | Hongik University ํ์ต๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 499of 1,884 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ246,900 | Website |
| 43 | Soongsil University ์ญ์ค๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 494of 1,468 international students | Certified | $1,15010์ฃผ ยท 2026 | โฉ228,600 | Website |
| 44 | Duksung Women's University ๋์ฑ์ฌ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul | 493of 644 international students | Certified | โฉ1,500,00010์ฃผ ยท 2025 | โฉ252,600 | Website |
| 45 | Daegu Haany University ๋๊ตฌํ์๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 492of 2,168 international students | Visa restricted | โ | โ | โ |
| 46 | Honam University ํธ๋จ๋ํ๊ต ยท Jeonnam & Gwangju | 490of 1,502 international students | Not certified | $1,00010์ฃผ/ํ๊ธฐ ยท 2020 | โฉ164,600 | Website |
| 47 | Daegu Catholic University ๋๊ตฌ๊ฐํจ๋ฆญ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 487of 2,340 international students | Certified | $9751๋ 4๊ฐํ๊ธฐ(ํ๊ธฐ๋น 10์ฃผ) ยท 2019 | โฉ154,200 | Website |
| 48 | Silla University ์ ๋ผ๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 480of 1,596 international students | Certified | โ | โฉ206,000 | Website |
| 49 | Kyungbok University ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 454of 800 international students | Certified | $1,00010์ฃผ ยท 2020 | โฉ200,000 | Website |
| 50 | Daegutechnical University ๋๊ตฌ๊ณต์
๋ํ๊ต ยท Daegu | 435of 630 international students | Not certified | โ | โฉ199,100 | โ |
| 51 | Chungbuk National University ์ถฉ๋ถ๋ํ๊ต ยท Chungbuk | 433of 1,560 international students | Certified | $1,1001๋ (4ํ๊ธฐ) ยท 2023 | โฉ179,500 | Website |
| 52 | Kyungnam College of Information & Technology ๊ฒฝ๋จ์ ๋ณด๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 433of 915 international students | Certified | โฉ1,200,00010์ฃผ(200์๊ฐ) ยท 2021 | โฉ172,500 | Website |
| 53 | Daekyeung College ๋๊ฒฝ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 431of 1,352 international students | Not certified | โฉ2,460,0001๋ ยท 2025 | โฉ104,300 | Website |
| 54 | Tongwon University ๋์๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi | 429of 914 international students | Certified | $9601๋ 4ํ๊ธฐ์ ยท 2023 | โฉ124,200 | โ |
| 55 | Kyonggi University ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeonggi ยท all campuses | 419of 1,002 international students | Certified | โฉ1,250,00010์ฃผ ยท 2020 | โฉ175,800 | Website |
| 56 | Wonkwang University ์๊ด๋ํ๊ต ยท Jeonbuk | 412of 1,462 international students | Certified | $1,0004ํ๊ธฐ/๋ ยท 2024 | โฉ217,100 | Website |
| 57 | Busan University of Foreign Studies ๋ถ์ฐ์ธ๊ตญ์ด๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 405of 1,762 international students | Certified | โฉ1,860,0003์ฃผ ๋๋ 1~4์ฃผ ๋ง์ถคํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ ์งํ ยท 2026 | โฉ182,000 | Website |
| 58 | SinGyeongju University ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ๋ํ๊ต ยท Gyeongbuk | 400of 822 international students | Not certified | โฉ1,200,00010์ฃผ(180์๊ฐ) ยท 2025 | โฉ181,000 | Website |
| 59 | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies ํ๊ตญ์ธ๊ตญ์ด๋ํ๊ต ยท Seoul ยท all campuses | 397of 2,926 international students | Certified | $1,40010์ฃผ(1๋ 4ํ๊ธฐ) ยท 2023 | โฉ307,400 | Website |
| 60 | Pukyong National University ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๋ถ๊ฒฝ๋ํ๊ต ยท Busan | 386of 1,400 international students | Certified | $1,090๋งค ํ๊ธฐ 10์ฃผ ยท 2025 | โฉ185,300 | Website |
Visa screening: the 2025 IEQAS review by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Justice โ certified institutes get simplified D-4 screening; restricted ones cannot have new-student visas issued for one year from fall 2026; the rest are screened the standard way.
Tuition: what the university reported to Study in Korea (USD per term, self-reported and not always current) โ confirm on the institute's site.
Dorm: the cheapest listed room per month (๋ํ์๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ, 2025).
Student counts: Ministry of Justice international-student records as of 2026-06-30; counts under 5 are not shown.
TOPIK
TOPIK exam dates and fees
The official 2026 exam plan, from the TOPIK website. Dates and fees are for Korea; overseas registration, results dates and fees are set country by country.
| Exam | Exam date | Registration | Results | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Internet-based (IBT) Round 15 ยท Korea and overseas | Oct 24, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 โ Aug 24, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 | Registration closed |
Speaking Round 12 ยท Korea only | Oct 24, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 โ Aug 24, 2026 | Nov 16, 2026 | Registration closed |
Paper-based (PBT) Round 109 ยท Korea and overseas | Nov 15, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 โ Sep 7, 2026 | Dec 22, 2026 | Registration closed |
Internet-based (IBT) Round 16 ยท Korea and overseas | Nov 28, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 โ Sep 21, 2026 | Dec 18, 2026 | Registration closed |
Fees in Korea
- Paper-based (PBT)
- TOPIK I (levels 1โ2): 40,000 KRW
TOPIK II (levels 3โ6): 55,000 KRW - Internet-based (IBT)
- TOPIK I (levels 1โ2): 70,000 KRW
TOPIK II (levels 3โ6): 95,000 KRW - Speaking
- All levels: 80,000 KRW
The 2027 plan is not published yet. The 2026 plan came out on 31 October 2025, so expect the next one around the end of October.
Get an email when TOPIK registration opens โRead from the TOPIK website on 2026-10-04. The website comes first if it differs. Official TOPIK website โ