15 Students Selected from 7 Universities
The MBK Scholarship Foundation announced on March 8 that it has selected a total of 15 new college students as the 15th scholarship recipients through document reviews and video interviews for about one month.
The foundation has selected eight male and seven female students. They hail from diverse regions and attend seven universities -- Kyung Hee University, Seoul National University, Wonkwang University, Ewha Womans University, Chung-Ang University, Hanyang University, and the Korea National University of Arts. Their majors ranged from humanities and social science to the global environment, mechanical engineering, software, design and music.
Four interviewers including MBK Partners chairman Kim Byung-joo conducted in-depth non-face-to-face interviews with 30 candidate students.
The scholarship foundation does not attach conditions to the recipient selection or use a special selection criterion. Instead, it asks the selected students to pass on the value of “Pay It Forward” (when someone does something for you, you pass it on to another person) and practice it.
“There was a case where a scholarship recipient, who was suffering from a refractory neurological disease, went to a medical school to help students suffering from the same disease,” said Kim Byung-joo, chairman of the foundation. “No matter how difficult the circumstances are, we will help our scholarship students grow into leaders in various fields of society.”
The MBK Scholarship Foundation was established in 2007 and has provided scholarships to a total of 170 students so far.