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order to compensate for the infringement of learning rights caused by Corona 19, Konkuk University decided to return some of the tuition fees for the first time among Korean universities. More than 40 other college students have been in class action.

Reporter Min Kyung-ho reports.

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Konkuk University's Seoul Campus offered most of the first semester courses online as non-face-to-face lectures.

The students were asked to return the tuition fees to the school, saying that the right to study was infringed, and the university decided to return 8.3 percent of the tuition fees to 15,000 students after two months of negotiations with the Student Council.

It is the first refund of tuition due to the corona incident among domestic universities.

It can be refunded in cash or reduced from tuition in the second semester. The humanities and social sciences are 290,000 won, the engineering and arts and science departments are 380,000 won, and the veterinary department is 390,000 won.

In order to return the tuition fee, Konkuk University has raised 4.44 billion won in funding for various events and academic scholarships.

[Choeseokjun / Konkuk University Computer Engineering Student: There are also students who are satisfied with what that tuition refund, I think a lot of students are 20 to 30 percent are not crazy a lot of disappointment, I expected at the beginning -

the university is being discussed tuition returned problem some, but However, there has been no decision on return policy except for Konkuk University.

Amid this, over 3,500 students from 46 universities nationwide filed a class action lawsuit against the state and affiliated universities to return tuition fees.


[Ryu Ki-hwan/'Youth' representative: University students are entering the end of the course while the government and the university put off their responsibilities to each other. (Universities are only waiting for tax returns from the National Assembly.)

Only the universities with more than 20 students who have expressed their intention to participate in the lawsuit have been sued for the first time.

(Video coverage: Doowon Yang, Video editing: Jongmi Kim, VJ: Jaemin Roh)