Aberdeen’s South Korean campus is due to open in September next year in the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone in Hadong District in the south of the country.pus will specialise in teaching engineering relating to the off-shore oil and gas industries and is being created with “establishment funding” from the South Korean government.

British universities and colleges have set up a number of overseas campuses, such as a Lancaster University in Ghana, Nottingham University in Malaysia and Leeds Metropolitan in India, with Aberystwyth planning to set up shop in Mauritius.

Hee Bong Lee, the economic zone’s commissioner, said they were looking forward to the campus becoming “a centre of expertise in offshore engineering thanks to the strong curriculum on offer”.

Source: Independant