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Sending-State Governance and International Student Mobility: The Case of Vietnam and Its Implications for South Korea

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  • Joonpyo Lee

    (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul 02450, Republic of Korea)

  • Jaemyung Park

    (Department of Vietnamese Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul 02450, Republic of Korea)

Abstract

This study examines how Vietnam regulates overseas study and how this regulatory structure shapes international student mobility to South Korea. Through a qualitative analysis of key legal and policy instruments, especially Decree No. 86/2021/ND-CP, it finds that Vietnam governs overseas study through a centralized legal-administrative system that structures eligibility, student management, intermediary oversight, and return obligations. It also finds that important implementation gaps persist, particularly in relation to private intermediaries, monitoring capacity, and the gap between formal regulation and students’ actual mobility trajectories. These findings suggest that receiving countries such as South Korea should pay closer attention to the pre-departure institutional conditions that influence student mobility before arrival. The study contributes by providing a legally grounded account of how sending-state regulation operates in the Vietnamese case and why pre-departure institutional conditions matter for receiving-country contexts such as South Korea.

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  • Joonpyo Lee & Jaemyung Park, 2026. "Sending-State Governance and International Student Mobility: The Case of Vietnam and Its Implications for South Korea," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-17, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:15:y:2026:i:4:p:263-:d:1923616
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