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Advice: Doing grad school abroad and getting a masters instead of PhD
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[QUOTE="CrysPhys, post: 6858926, member: 605891"] This is an important point to expand upon. If you should decide to study in S. Korea, make sure that your perspective is that your time spent there has value in and of itself, not just as a stepping stone to something else. If that something else should not materialize, you don't want to beat yourself up with regret. I give the same advice to students who are contemplating a PhD in physics. The PhD program needs to have value in and of itself, because it will not necessarily be a stepping stone to a lifetime career as a research physicist. If your plans are to return to the US, how flexible are you? Should you not complete a masters in physics, or later a PhD in physics, ideally you would want to leverage your proficiency in the Korean language and your knowledge of S. Korean culture. One obvious option would be to seek employment at a US branch of a major S. Korean corporation (Samsung, LG, Hyundai/Kia). [With the recent tax and funding incentives that the federal government passed, they are likely to expand their US footprint.] Another option would be a position in a US intellectual property law firm that has a major S. Korean corporation as a client. Would you consider options such as those? Or are you fixed on X as a goal, and you would be miserable if you do not attain X? [/QUOTE]
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