Notification of Tuition Fees Payment 2013 Spring Semester for Freshmen of Graduate Course
(including those of Management Engineering)
Please make a payment for tuition fees for 2013 Spring Semester during a designated period as follows.
1. Payment Period January 8th (Tues.) 2013 ~ January 14th, 2013, 18:00
※ Please keep the following in mind.The last day is open until 18:00.
2. How to Check your Payment to be Made or Payment You Have Made
A.
-Accessible to all people with a proper student number and a social security number of a student you would like to check
B. - Academic System - Payment - Payment
- Accessible with your ID and Password on the Portal
3. Checking your Payment Status and Details on Woori Bank
-Please check an attachment named How to Check if You Have Paid Tuition Fees.pdf for this information. (You need to know the basic Korean alphabet for this checking. The current Woori Bank system does not provide the service above in English.)
4. Payment Procedure
A. Making Payment for Yourself
After checking details of tuition fees through means listed above, you can make the payment to virtual account numbers assigned to you by depositing, Internet banking, Telebanking, or CD/ATM etc. through all banking institutions (e.g. Any bank across the country, Nonghyup, Korea Post, etc.)
* for KAIST Scholarship Students
KAIST scholarship students have two different tuition fees in kind. Generally, you have tuition fees partly assigned to you. The fees excluding the part that you have to pay are assigned to your professor, your department or someone in charge of the payment. The Academic Registrar’s Team will send an invoice to either of them via an official document. The person in charge of the payment should pay the fees via proper means during the designated period.
B. Graduate students of General Scholarship
-In principle, those graduate students have two different virtual accounts assigned to a student and to his/her company sponsoring. Each party should check the amount of tuition fees assigned and make the proper payment to the virtual accounts belonging to each.
-If a sponsoring company pays tuition fees of a student, a person in charge in the company should check “Notice/Bill of Tuition & Fees” and pay it accordingly. The website for it is written below.
(Accessible with a student ID number and his/her social security number)
◆ Payment for tuition fees can be made by proxy if the payment is made to the virtual account numbers of a student.
5. Measures on Non-payment
Expulsion
1) Non-payment for tuition fees results in expulsion based on academic rules of KAIST
2) Exception:
-Applicants who made a formal petition for postponement of tuition fees payment with approvals from their advisor and head of the department (their signatures are needed) can prolong the payment period up to a month as from the first day of the period.
[Reference] Legal Basis in KAIST regulations
1) Article 34 and Article 87 in Academic rules
2) Article 4 in Collection of Tuition Fees rules
3) Article 3 in Guidelines on Matriculation and Registration of Courses
6. Points to Consider
A. Virtual account numbers are NOT possible to use for withdrawals.
**The numbers are only available during the designated period and cannot be used afterwards.
Payment cannot be made if one of the following cases happens.
[case 1] You do not pay the amount of tuition notified.
[case 2] The virtual account numbers are wrong when you make the payment.
B. ‘Student Health Insurance/Student Association Fees’ is optional payment.
C. Virtual account numbers given individually to a student are usable until graduation. Payment can be made after checking the amount of tuition fees each semester.
※ For more Inquiries
Academic Registrar’s Team, Division of Academic Affairs, KAIST
Seo, Okjin Esther (Ms.) +82-42-350-2366 / Email: okjseo@kaist.ac.kr )
Please be mindful of checking your account numbers and the amount of tuition fees one more time before making the payment.