Request for Scholarship

Thank you very much for your interest in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. We are pleased that you have turned to us in your search for a scholarship.

Our Scholarship Programme is open to foreign students and postgraduates at German universities if applicants are qualified according to our scholarship requirements. All applicants are subject to a preliminary selection process under which the applicants' qualifications are checked and the chance for a successful application is assessed carefully.

We would very much like to assist you with your application for a scholarship, but find ourselves unable to support you as you do not meet our minimum entry requirements at this stage, namely:

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The Alumni of Our Scholarship Holders

The famous English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) left us a golden saying "Knowledge is Power [scientia est potentia]". But for me it means that "Knowledge is freedom" to do something or to go somewhere more easily.

It seems like that to study abroad, especially in Germany, gave me a chance to see or contact something new, but to be a scholarship student of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation gave me a kind of engine or wings to run and fly freely.

Since late fall 1999 I took 3 months long German language course at the University of Potsdam and from the spring/summer semester 2000 on I am in the Ph.D. degree program at the department of Public Administration and Political Science at the University of Potsdam.

With the help of Professor Eung-Kyuk Park, Director of Graduate School of Local Autonomy at Hanyang University and Dr. Du-Nam Chung, ex-scholarship holder of the FNF who encouraged me to apply for this scholarship which I received from May 2001 on. Thanks to the scholarship I am financially independent and can expand my academic, political and social horizon to see the world and my life. In interesting seminars and various academic, political, social and cultural programs of FNF I was veryl motivated and stimulated to do or to think over something new.

After receiving my Ph.D. degree in the near future I would like to contribute to the political and administrative reform policy related to unification including democratic civic education in the two Koreas and the promotion of bilateral ties between Europe (inclusive of Germany) and Korea.

I am Jung-Goo Kim. In the recent years, I have been responsible for the Risk Management Division of the Korea Exchange Bank as a delegate of the Commerzbank in Germany. The risk management is a new management concept introduced in the wake of the financial crisis that swept Korea during 1997-1998.

Starting in 1981 at the University of Muenster, I studied at four different universities (TH Aachen, Uni. Koeln, GH Wuppertal). When I worked in Frankfurt, my family rented a house in Hofheim, near the Taunus range, which was my last stay in Germany. I still have many wonderful memories of typical small German cities and beautiful rural sceneries in Germany.

Muenster is a historic city in the middle German plain with a beautiful lake called A-see. The city is considered a heaven for bicyclists. Although I spent there only one semester during my German language course, I like the city as my hometown in Germany. The city of Aachen with its boarders to the Netherlands and Belgium has a famous engineering college. I completed my Vordiplom study in Business Administration there. The city of Cologne is a well-known commercial and industrial center at the Rhein River and has a majestic cathedral, one of the most-sought-after tourist sites in Germany. I graduated at the University of Koeln with a major in Industry Business, Strategic Planning, and Business IT.

During my master course I was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and received financial support. In seminars of the foundation, I had a lot of chances to contact students from many other countries and to discuss interesting issues that I never got from regular studies at universities.

After my graduation I got a job at the well-known consulting firm, Coopers & Lybrand in Germany, and at the same time I started a two-year doctor course at the University of Wuppertal. I still regret that I couldn't finish my doctoral dissertation due to a heavy work burden after having got a job at the bank.

I majored in Social Science and Mass Communication at Goettingen University in Germany, and I have been a scholarship student of Friedrich Naumann Foundation from 1988 to 1990. After I got my Master Degree, I had an experience as a cub reporter in the International Politics Department of the ZDF (Broadcasting Company) in Germany. When I came back to Korea in 1993, I established Inter-Kult, which is a kind of company to make a plan for the performance on the works of stage arts abroad and international events.

Inter-Kult provides solutions and tools for limiting factors originated from the lack of information and cultural understanding between Korea and European countries. It was also aimed that Korean culture and industry could be firmly planted into the world by promoting the smooth and diverse interchanges.

When I remember in my days as a scholarship student of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Germany, I could feel time flies. But the excitement and expectation to the new experiences, and the challenge and tension to the unlimited possibility are still fresh in my mind. It was a great financial support to me, but a lot of information and experiences, which I could receive as a scholarship student, were more important than anything else. Thanks to the diverse education programs and seminars based on the idea of liberalism, I could have a confidence and sense of mission through the experiences in the society and politics. My professional sense is based on this confidence. Looking back to Theodor-Heuss Haus in Gummersbach, I am filled with nostalgic sweetness. I missed an opportunity to visit Gummersbach though I have been to Germany and other European countries frequently. Sooner or later I will visit the Theodor-Heuss Haus in Gummersbach for sure with expectations.

I studied communication science and political science at the Free University of Berlin since summer 1989. I have two important experiences during my stay in Germany. One thing was to be a witness of the German reunification, the other was to be a scholarship student of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. As a scholarship student of FNF I could have contact with variety of students from all around the world and with many different social and political organizations. I could also participate at the internship program of the German parliament (Bundestag) and had a chance to learn intensively about political structure and political culture of Germany. I recieved my Ph.D. in the field of broadcasting policy 2000 and came back to work as a media researcher at the MBC-TV. I would like to make use of lectures on German reunification for the Korean reunification and to contribute to the bilateral relationship between Korea and Germany. Some years have passed since I came back to Korea, but I am still missing German beer.