About us

Built at the intersection of Korean academia and global ambition.

We connect Korean universities with the next generation of internationally-minded students — and we stay with them long after acceptance. Our work begins at first inquiry and continues through visa, settlement, graduation, and the first job in Korea.

Leadership

The team behind Global Eduworking Group.

Our founders share a common path: graduate degrees from leading U.S. institutions, careers spent between Asia and the West, and a conviction that Korean higher education deserves the world's most ambitious students.

Founder One

HARVARD UNIVERSITY '15 · ECONOMICS

Co-founder, Strategy

Born in Seoul and educated between Seoul and Boston, [Founder One] has spent the last decade working at the intersection of education policy and international student mobility. At GEG, leads strategic partnerships with Korean institutions.

Previously

Strategy Consultant, McKinsey & Company (2015–2019)
Director of International Programs, [Korean EdTech Company] (2019–2023)

“To make Korean higher education legible and accessible to ambitious students from anywhere in the world.”

Founder Two

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY '14 · INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Co-founder, Operations

[Founder Two] brings a decade of operational rigor to GEG, having built systems that move people and information across borders. Oversees the day-to-day machinery that turns partnership agreements into placed students.

Previously

Operations Lead, [Global Logistics Company] (2014–2018)
Founding Operator, [Asia-focused EdTech Startup] (2018–2023)

“Every promise we make to a student or partner must be a system, not a hope.”

Founder Three

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS '16 · INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Head of Partnerships

[Founder Three] has spent her career mapping the agency landscape across Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Mongolia. At GEG, builds and sustains the partner relationships that bring students to our universities.

Previously

Business Development, [International Education Network] (2016–2020)
Regional Director, Southeast Asia, [Study-Abroad Platform] (2020–2024)

“A good partnership outlasts any single placement.”

Founder Four

TBD · TBD

Head of Korea Office

[Founder Four] leads our Korea office and serves as the primary liaison with Korean universities, government bodies, and post-graduation employers. Profile pending.

Previously

“Korea is not just where students study — it can be where they build the rest of their lives.”

Origin

Why we started Global Eduworking Group.

It began with a question we kept hearing from friends in Hanoi, Jakarta, Ulaanbaatar, and Tashkent: “Why is it so hard to study in Korea?” Korean universities had become world-class. K-pop, K-drama, and Korean industry had drawn an entire generation toward Seoul. And yet the path for international students remained fragmented — language barriers, opaque admissions, and a maze of agencies that disappeared the moment a deposit was paid.

We had each lived this gap from one side or the other. Some of us had crossed it as students ourselves, navigating Boston and New York and Seoul without anyone telling us how the systems actually worked. Others had spent careers placing students into Korean universities, watching the same friction repeat year after year.

Global Eduworking Group is the company we wished had existed when we were nineteen. Our work isn't to send students to Korea. It's to stay with them — through admission, through arrival, through the long arc that turns a student into a graduate, and a graduate into someone who chooses to build the rest of their life here.

Korean Operations

On the ground in Seoul.

Our Seoul office serves as the operational backbone of every partnership. From document review and visa coordination to airport pickup and dormitory check-in, our Korea-based team handles the on-the-ground logistics that determine whether a student's first month feels chaotic or welcoming.

We are also the daily point of contact with the universities themselves — attending information sessions, meeting with admissions offices, and surfacing changes in policy or timeline before they reach our partner agencies.

Seoul Office

Address: pending

Team size: pending

Values

Three commitments we hold without exception.

Transparency

Clear commission structures, no hidden fees, and audit-ready reporting for every partner agency. The numbers we show you are the numbers we work with.

End-to-End Care

Our responsibility to a student does not end at acceptance. We accompany them through visa, arrival, settlement, graduation, and the first step into the Korean labor market.

Long-Term Partnership

We measure agency relationships in decades, not in single placements. Trust built over years is the only foundation we know how to build on.

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