For the others it's a matter of reading in English, thinking in Korean, and then taking the tests in Chinese! For students who are used to being in the upper ten percent of their class, the realities of competing in a foreign language can be rude indeed.
對念文史學科的外籍生來說，他們只要把中文弄好，功課就可以應付了；但是對修理工、社會科學的外籍學生來說，由於國內這方面所用的教科書多半是英文書，「唸書時，經常是把英文轉化為韓文，加以理解；考試時還得再翻為中文答題」，政治大學政治系二年級的李鐘升說。