The Korean Council for University Education says that 138 universities will this year admit some 46-hundred new students through a special college entrance system for the children of overseas Koreans.

Each university will fill two percent of their total number of new students with the children of Korean expatriates or those who were stationed at the overseas offices of domestic companies.

The special selection system will benefit high school students who have lived with their parents in foreign countries for at least two years and have studied at Korean middle or high schools for two years or more.

The council said that among non-Koreans and North Korean escapees, there is no limit on the number of new students the universities can enroll.