✈️ Academic route
FROM🇰🇷 South Korea→TO🇫🇮 Finland
South Korea school-leaving stage to Finland: education route
Compare school-leaving stage in South Korea with the corresponding school stage in Finland, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
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Route alignment
South Korea describes this point as 고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSAT. Finland describes the receiving stage as General upper secondary or vocational education. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.
DEPARTING STAGE고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSAT✈ARRIVING STAGEGeneral upper secondary or vocational education
📚 Side-by-side
What crosses with the learner
Route point🇰🇷 South Korea🇫🇮 Finland
Current stage고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSATGeneral upper secondary or vocational education
Education authorityA national curriculum is implemented through metropolitan and provincial education offices; KICE administers the CSAT.National core curricula are issued by the Finnish National Agency for Education and implemented locally by education providers.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements
🧳 Preparation file
Bring these into the route
- Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
- School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
- Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
- Certified translations and language-learning history where requested
🔗 Official links
Open the issuing sources
National curriculum and achievement standardsNational Curriculum Information Center ↗검정고시 qualification, subjects and passing rulesNational Institute for Lifelong Education · 검정고시지원센터 ↗CSAT / 수능 official informationKorea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation ↗Current CSAT candidate guideKorea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation ↗Finnish education systemFinnish National Agency for Education ↗General upper-secondary education and matriculationFinnish National Agency for Education ↗
🔎 Also described as
moving from South Korea to Finland for school-leaving stageSouth Korea school-leaving stage in FinlandSouth Korea to Finland school transfer requirements