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Kaist to use Western academic calender

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will implement a three-month summer vacation and one-month winter vacation like Western schools so that students can participate in foreign internships. The school said yesterday that this year, it would lengthen summer vacation to two-and-a-half months, ending classes a week earlier than last year. A week, however, will be cut out of the 70-day winter vacation.
Beginning next year, the school will conduct a full three-month summer vacation, by ending the first semester on May 31. Winter vacation will be shortened to one month.
The science school said that students increasingly want to participate in foreign internships, but Korea’s school system only allows a two-month summer vacation, which makes foreign universities, companies, and research centers reluctant to accept Korean students.
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