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- Title
Brain gain or brain circulation? U.S. doctoral recipients returning to South Korea.
- Authors
Lee, Jenny; Kim, Dongbin
- Abstract
This study explored the reasons for current reverse mobility patterns in South Korea and how the country benefits from returning U.S. doctoral recipients in the forms of brain gain and brain circulation. Based on interviews of Korean faculty who studied in the U.S., this study found that while the political economy might help to explain why Korean students choose to study in the U.S., it does not fully capture their decisions to return. Family ties and cultural reasons transcended reasons related to economic mobility. The study also found that while both brain gain and brain circulation were present, brain adaptation was especially prevalent.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; UNITED States; FOREIGN students; DOCTORAL students; STUDENT mobility; STUDENT surveys; KOREAN students in foreign countries; KNOWLEDGE management; EDUCATIONAL quality; EDUCATION
- Publication
Higher Education (00181560), 2010, Vol 59, Issue 5, p627
- ISSN
0018-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10734-009-9270-5