외국인 유학생의 법적 지위 및 유치 확대와 활용 방안 연구

The purpose of this study is to suggest how to raise the attraction of international students and to suggest the ways to aggressively utilize international students, who graduated from university in Korea, to prevent them leaving Korea for their home or the third countries. This study is focused on literature research in the basis of qualitative analysis on legal materials, academic papers, and national policy data related to attracting and utilizing international students. The existing problems with attracting and utilizing international students are as follows. Firstly, at the stage of attracting international students, universities are mainly eager to recruit a large number of students without a long-term road map. Secondly, there are many universities facing difficulties at the entry stage including visa process as they are unable to invite new international students due to the high rate of illegal stay of previously invited international students. Thirdly, there exist high language barriers at the academic stage due to the lack of Korean language skills of international students, and most international students are from some certain countries. Lastly, there are many international students who decide to stay illegally after graduation due to the difficulties to find a job in Korea. In order to attract more international students, improvements such as installing national agencies to attract international students, making new standards for student visas issuance, and constructing integrated online student visa system, and adopting special admission and 3 strike-out system for universities which mismanage their international students. In order to actively utilize graduated international students, it is necessary to improve the part-time work permit system, establish a new OPT visa, operate a restart program, and expand employment and residence visas for them along with employment permit for their family.