The ceremony of awarding an annual POSCO foundation scholarship

On October 7, the ceremony of the POSCO foundation annual scholarship awarding to the best students of the Kazakh National University took place in Almaty. A scholarship of 500$ was received by our students: Gulmira Yussupova, Bolat Beysekul (Department of Korean and Japanese studies), Nurzhanov Farabi, Salimova Saya (Department of Arabic and Iranian Studies) Bazarbay Gulnar (Department of Turkology). The selection criteria were performance, activity in school and social life, social status.
POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is the second largest steel producer in the world by market value and the most profitable steel-making company in Asia. Since 2006, the Foundation launched a new program named "Scholarships to the best students in Asia," that awards annual scholarships to the best students of 12 universities in 10 countries in Asia. Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi was among the first universities to sign the Memorandum of Cooperation with the Foundation, under which annual scholarship of $ 500 is awarded to the best students of the university.