An eight-year-old boy will become the youngest university student in South Korea next year after he was accepted by Inha University in Inchon this month.
The university registered Song Yoo-gun as a student in its College of Natural Sciences after he passed the university's entrance exams.
He will start his studies in March with classmates almost three times his age.
'I am very glad to be admitted to the university and I will study harder in physics,' the boy said.
'Yoo-gun decided to go to Inha University because of its practical education curriculum rather than seeking the prestige of other universities,' his father, Song Soo-jin, said.
He will be at university four days a week but will be among his own age group at an elementary school once a week, where he will participate in physical education, music and art.
An Inha spokesman said the university recruited the boy for its natural science department to nurture his 'superior talent' in physics.