After the pandemic, it seems that majority of colleges in South Korea are faced serious challenges, including more intense competition and declining incomes, which has accelerated the transition of higher education to be more consumer-oriented. More h...
After the pandemic, it seems that majority of colleges in South Korea are faced serious challenges, including more intense competition and declining incomes, which has accelerated the transition of higher education to be more consumer-oriented. More higher education institutions focus more on the perceived values of potential consumers-college students. Nevertheless, although many scholars have instilled new situations to follow this trend, very few choose the intermational education background but base their studies on national image and university competitiveness. As a result, this essay chooses a new angle-students are consumers. It cuts into the points of national image and university competitiveness and exemplify the overseas students for tertiary education.
This essay surveys the Chinese international students in music major, and combines research situation by taking different aspects of national image(political image, economic image, social image and K-pop
cultural image), In addition, it constructs a conceptual model on the basis of S-O-R theory, structuring-national image, university competitiveness and perceived value and choice wills to study abroad. From June 10 to August 20, 2022, 453 valid data were collected from Chinese students majoring in music, both in Korea and those who graduated from music, through online and offline.Through the reliability test, correlation test, intermediate test and path analysis test of SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 24.0 statistical software, the hypothesis and model are verified by quantitative analysis.Subsequently, six Chinese music majors who had studied in Korea were interviewed online by semi-structured interviews, and the opinions of the interviewers were analyzed qualitatively.Finally, the results of this study are confirmed, and valuable conclusions are drawn as follows: the perception of value is positively influenced by all dimensional variables of national image, and the perception of value is positively influenced by perceived value.Through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, this study empirically analyzed and tested the data of Chinese students' willingness to study abroad in Korea. It explores how those students choose to study overseas through different factors, such as their perceived value which would affect the national image and university competitiveness. Also it may have some implications for the higher education in South Korea to gather data and research material, so as to enhance the national image and competitiveness of colleges in South Korea to deal with challenges with the economic globalization background.