Catering to the needs of Muslim students, a growing number of South Korean universities are offering halal meals in their menus and opening prayer rooms in their campuses.
Now the new semester in Sejong University brought good news to Muslim students who were offered access to a prayer room in the basement of the dormitory.
Answering calls by many of them, the 73 square meter carpeted prayer room has a partition separating men and women and an amplifier for reading from the Qur’an.
“In the past, students would walk by while I was doing my prayers,” Aslan, a Pakistani who is working on a combined Master’s and doctoral program in digital content studies at Sejong University, told on Thursday.
“I like the fact that I’m able to say my prayers in peace now.” Sejong University is not the first Korean university to offer Muslims a prayer room inside its campus.
Following the Korean Wave by trying to recruit students from Muslim countries, Korean universities are making efforts to win the hearts of Muslims.
Kyung Hee University is also operating a prayer room for its approximately 60 Muslim students. Hanyang University, which has attracted around 250 students from Islamic countries, has a prayer room as well.
Seoul National University, which has around 1,000 students from 80 countries, also offers a space in the dormitory that can be used as a prayer room.
According to the Korea Muslim Federation (KMF), established in 1967, there are about 120,000 to 130,000 Muslims living in South Korea, both natives and foreigners.
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Catering to the needs of Muslim students, a growing number of South Korean universities are offering halal meals in their menus and opening prayer rooms in their campuses.