The one person quota given to foreign students by the South Korean government was allocated to Izmir University this academic year. Nadir Fırat, students at Izmir University department of English Language Teaching will spend the 2011-12 fall semester at Keimyung University as an exchange student with scholarship. Having sent its first Erasmus students to Finland and Romania, Izmir University aims to increase its foreign student traffic in the near future. 

Nadir Fırat described his thoughts and opinions about being an exchnange student in South Korea as such: "I believe that every student should go experience this. I would like to offer mu sincere thanks to my university for giving me this chance. Before I came here, I did not know much about Korean people and culture, but after my arrival, I had the chance to get to know the culture and meet with exchange students from 20 different countries. Being here will give me a very important advantage in my future teaching career, since I have the opportunity to observe the education system in a different country, get lectures from Korean, American and German teachers and the methods used in English language teaching.