Welcome to K-campus! Here you can find everything you need to make student life in Korea a little bit easier, whether you’re just starting out on your Korea journey or you’ve been here for years and are ready for the next step.

You can share your own experiences and offer your hard-earned advice if you like, or just catch up on what everyone else is doing, skim the job board and check out the latest news.

On this help page, we’ve got some information on how the different sections of K-campus work, what you might find there and how you can contribute to help us develop further.

Posting Real Life Reviews

We didn’t want to create a website that lectures you on the student experience because you are the ones experiencing. Instead, we wanted to create a safe space where students in Korea can share their experiences, advice and tips and benefit from each other.

That’s where Real Life Reviews comes in.

Real Life Reviews is a place where any user can post their own reviews of any aspect of student life in Korea, from academic issues like choosing classes or applying for scholarships to more exciting aspects of everyday life like your favorite local café, dinner spot or even weekend getaway.

Real Life Reviews can be whatever you make of them. If you want to write it like personal blog, that’s fine. If you want to jazz it up and practice some more structured article writing, that’s also fine. As long as the information is there and you’ve got a few good pictures, it can look however you want it to look!

Remember, Real Life Reviews is a two-way street. The more we all put into it, the more we get out. Your experience could help another member of the K-campus community, and one day their experience might help you too.

Join the Community

If Real Life Reviews is the place for your detailed, structured reviews, the Community is the place for absolutely everything else.

Honestly, we haven’t got too much to say about how you use the Community — it’s a forum, we all know how to use a forum!

One neat feature of the K-campus Community is the ability to filter posts by university. By registering your university (or the universities you’re interested in) on the University Feed tab, you can call up all the relevant posts to your school without wading through loads of conversations.

You can use the Community for whatever you want.

Got something to say that isn’t worth a whole review? Try the Community. Have a question to ask? Try the Community. Looking for a study buddy? Try the Community. Want to shift some old books? Try the Community.

It’s a forum — you know what to do!

Leveling up

The more you put into K-campus, the more you get out of it — literally!

There are five levels of K-campus membership: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior and Graduate.

Freshman is automatic as soon as you create an account, so chances are you’re probably one right now. Sophomore, Junior and Senior can all be unlocked with a little review posting, community interaction and recommending a friend or two (find out more on the Membership page).

The higher you rise, the more you get. Currently, we’re offering Sophomores priority invitation to K-campus events, Juniors access to careers advice and Seniors an official certificate confirming that they are contributing writers to K-campus, a service of national Korean newspaper the Korea JoongAng Daily (stick that on your resume!).

To be honest, these level rewards aren’t completely fixed. K-campus is an evolving service and as we get bigger and better we will add more benefits, so keep leveling up to unlock more fun stuff.

You’ll notice we haven’t mentioned Graduate level. That one’s a bit of a secret club, and the only way to get there is by special invitation (shhh!).

If you make it all the way to Senior and you’ve been dishing out some quality reviews, you might get the secret tap on the shoulder and an invitation to our exclusive Graduate club, where you’re invited to be part of our pool of paid freelance reporters that can pitch stories for publication on K-campus or even in the Korea JoongAng Daily.

Membership to that level is entirely by invitation only, so keep posting those good reviews and wait for that level-up notification.

Meet Jandi

Last but not least, you may have noticed Jandi floating around the K-campus website.

Jandi is our mascot, a friendly tuft of grass (although you’re forgiven for noticing that it’s white and suspiciously cloud-like).

In Korea, a lot of middle and high schools don’t have grass lawns. The idea of lying on the grass with a hefty biology textbook and a friendly group of students is part of the idyllic university dream for lots of Korean students, so we wanted to embody in that Jandi, which also happens to be the Korean word for grass.

Also, K-campus was created by the Korea JoongAng Daily. Korea JoongAng Daily --> KJD --> Kim JanDi --> Jandi! Get it?