Integrated management of student labor costs
- Enables student researchers to commit to both academic studies and research by securing student labor costs and allowing flexible use
- Payment flow of student labor costs
- Recipients of student labor costs
Student labor costs of national projects
19 departments (including schools) of 3 colleges
| College of Natural Sciences | College of Life Science & Bioengineering | College of Engineering |
|---|---|---|
| 4 departments including Dept. of Physics | 3 departments including Dept. of Biological Sciences | 12 departments including Dept. of Mechanical Engineering |
Departments other than those above subject to integrated management of student labor costs at principal investigator-level
| Type | Eligibility | Number | Account manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal investigator integrated account | Principal investigator | 1 | Principal investigator |
| Department integrated account | Departments subject to integrated management of student labor costs | 1 | Head of department (or dean) |
Head of department shall manage principal investigator integrated accounts and department integrated accounts of the department
| Principal investigator integrated account | Department integrated account |
|---|---|
| National projects under account manager (student labor costs) | Principal investigator integrated account of department (student labor costs according to criteria set by head of department*) |
* To be prepared before the start of each semester through department faculty meetings, etc. (Government recommendation: At least 50% of student labor costs of each national project)
| National project → Principal investigator integrated account | Principal investigator integrated account → Department integrated account |
|---|---|
| Automatically transferred by system when national project account opens | Transferred when requested by head of department and approved by principal investigator integrated account manager |
Return of student labor costs from principal investigator integrated account to national projects is possible, but not from department integrated accounts to principal investigator integrated accounts (except bank transfer errors, in which case, Office of Research Affairs’ approval is required)
- Registration period: Around the start of each semester
- Applicability
Principal investigator integrated account Department integrated account Bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. students (open to students from other departments) participating in national projects (including preparations for new or follow-up projects) Bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. students (open to students from other departments) participating in national projects (including preparations for new or follow-up projects), master’s and Ph.D. students (including bachelor’s where necessary) of the same department conducting duties related to promoting research of national projects at the department level
| Classification | Principal investigator integrated account | Department integrated account |
|---|---|---|
| Payment method | Tiered payment | Uniform payment (same amount paid to each student in the same degree program) |
| Recipient | Registered student of principal investigator integrated account | Registered student of department integrated account |
| Payment amount | Payment varies according to individual contribution based on standard amount of student labor costs* | Uniform payment for each degree program as determined by head of department |
* KRW 1.3 million per month for bachelor’s, KRW 2.2 million for master’s, and KRW 3 million for Ph.D. students (as of spring 2023)
Head of department shall determine payment amount (uniform payment by degree program) and recipients (number of students) for department integrated accounts through department faculty meetings before the start of each semester
Ministry of Science and ICT’s guidelines for standard operation of integrated management institutes
: At least 20% of reference amount of student labor costs announced by Ministry of Science and ICT
- Master’s program: KRW 440,000/month
- Ph.D. program: KRW 600,000/month
- Payments may be made below the minimum threshold in case of budget shortage, provided that Attachment 2 is submitted to the research supporting department.
| Confirmation of research participation for department integrated account | Confirmation of research participation for principal investigator integrated account |
|---|---|
| Research participation confirmation written to register students in the department integrated account; specifies the uniform payment amount | Research participation confirmation written to register students in the department integrated account; specifies the tiered payment amount |
- Time of writing: Before the start of each semester (February, August)
- Unit: Semester unit (6 months)
- Process and method
- Confirmation of research participation for department integrated account
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1. Head of department
Confirming payment amount (uniform payment) and recipients, and registering students in the system
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2. Head of department
Writing confirmation of research participation (checking payment amount of student labor costs)
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3. Student
Checking and providing consent to payment of student labor costs from department integrated account
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4. Head of department
Checking and approving student labor costs of department integrated account
Uniform payment amount cannot be calculated on a daily basis.
New research participation confirmation can be written by adding student researchers as recipients of payment from department integrated accounts through internal meetings during the semester.
- Proof of adjustment (internal meetings of department) of uniform payment recipients should be entered in the integrated management system.
- Student labor costs cannot be entered for past months, but may be entered for the previous month before the payment application deadline.
- Confirmation of research participation under principal investigator integrated account
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1. Principal investigator
Confirm and register amount (tiered payment) and recipient of payment from principal investigator integrated account
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2. Principal investigator
Write confirmation of research participation (Enter amount paid as student labor costs)
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3. Student
Check and agree to payment of student labor costs from principal investigator integrated account
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4. Principal investigator
Check and agree to student labor costs of principal investigator integrated account
Tiered payment amount can be calculated on a daily basis.
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Changes cannot be made to completed research participation confirmation forms except in the following cases:
- Signing/change/suspension/termination of research and development project agreement
- Change in academic status of student researcher
- Personal circumstances of student researcher
- Where it is impossible for the student research to perform duties due to illness, unavailability, criminal prosecution
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Student labor costs in past months cannot be changed when changing the confirmation of research participation, except in the following cases:
- Changing student labor costs of the previous month when the payment application has not been made and the application deadline has not passed
- Changing student labor costs to KRW 0 of past months for which payment application has not been made
- Account managers of principal investigator integrated accounts and department integrated accounts must complete payment applications for student labor costs of students specified in the research participation confirmation within the payment application period.
- Applications for payment of student labor costs cannot be made for past months, except where applying for payment of student labor costs of the previous month when the application has not been made and the deadline has not passed.
Account managers of principal investigator integrated account and department integrated account shall ensure a student labor cost execution ratio of at least 70% in each year, and calculate the execution ratio as follows (execution ratio of each integrated account is calculated automatically in the system).
- Principal investigator integrated account
- Total payment of student labor costs in applicable year of execution ratio calculation ÷ (Balance of student labor costs in previous year+Amount transferred as student labor costs of each national project in research period falling under applicable year of execution ratio calculation)
- Department integrated account
- Total payment of student labor costs in applicable year of execution ratio calculation ÷ (Balance of student labor costs in previous year+Amount transferred from principal investigator integrated account in applicable year of execution ratio calculation)