Foreign professors to teach at North Korean university, first time since COVID



News Foreign professors to teach at North Korean university, first time since COVID DPRK recently issued visas for teachers at private Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, representative says Alannah Hill \| Shreyas Reddy September 2, 2024 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Visiting Columbia University students with foreign professors and students at PUST in May 2012 \| Image: Uri Tours via Flickr (Nov. 5, 2013) (Creative Commons - CC BY-SA 2.0) Foreign professors are set to resume teaching at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the only privately run university in North Korea, for the first time since the country imposed strict COVID-19 border controls nearly five years ago. A PUST representative told NK News on Monday that North Korean authorities have issued visas for an unspecified number of foreign professors to return to the school founded by a Korean American evangelical Christian. Tae Young-ho, director of South Korea’s Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, told Yonhap News Agencythat he heard from a source in Geneva that the academics returned to © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Foreign professors to teach at North Korean university, first time since COVID

DPRK recently issued visas for teachers at private Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, representative says

Alannah Hill | Shreyas Reddy September 2, 2024

Foreign professors to teach at North Korean university, first time since COVID

Visiting Columbia University students with foreign professors and students at PUST in May 2012 | Image: Uri Tours via Flickr (Nov. 5, 2013) (Creative Commons - CC BY-SA 2.0)

Foreign professors are set to resume teaching at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the only privately run university in North Korea, for the first time since the country imposed strict COVID-19 border controls nearly five years ago.

A PUST representative told NK News on Monday that North Korean authorities have issued visas for an unspecified number of foreign professors to return to the school founded by a Korean American evangelical Christian.

Tae Young-ho, director of South Korea’s Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, told Yonhap News Agencythat he heard from a source in Geneva that the academics returned to

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Alannah Hill works as Deputy Managing Editor at Korea Risk Group. Prior to working at the JoongAng Daily as an editor and KBS as a radio news anchor in Seoul, she worked as a radio reporter at RTHK in Hong Kong and as a reporter at Xinhua news agency in Ireland.

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Shreyas Reddy is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.

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