Form recommendation letter

FORM 4. RECOMMENDATION LETTER
Instructions: Please fill in your name and other required information below and deliver (or email) this form to the person who will write the recommendation letter. Request your referee to seal the letter of recommendation in an official envelope and sign across the back flap. Recommendation letters that are not signed and sealed will not be accepted.
Name of Applicant: : (Family Name) Narzullaeva (Given Name) Maftuna
Country of Citizenship: Uzbekistan
Desired Degree Program: ☐ Master’s ☒ Doctoral ☐ Research
Intended Major: International Trade and Logistics

To be completed by the referee:
Your frank and candid evaluation of the applicant will be highly appreciated in the selection of Global Korea Scholarship awardees and the admissions to a Korean university. We greatly appreciate your time and effort.


*You may use your own recommendation letter template and attach your letter to this form. We hope to glean the following information of the applicant from your recommendation letter:
- How long have you known the applicant and in what relationship?
My name is Zukhra Otakuzieva and I am a professor at Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi at the department of Postal Communication Technology. It is a pleasure to recommend Maftuna Narzullaeva to pursue Ph.D. studies with the Global Korea Scholarship program. I have delivered lectures and seminars to Maftuna in various courses since she became an undergraduate student in 2016, so, I have known her for more than 6 years. Since then, Maftuna has successfully obtained her bachelor diploma and pursued a master’s degree. As a professor with over 15 years of experience, I have rarely had the pleasure to teach an ambitious, talented and bold student like Maftuna. She has my highest recommendation to your program, as I believe that she possesses excellent academic and psychological preparedness for doctoral studies. I have supervised many of her research projects and as a scholar myself, I deeply respect her intellect, motivation, learning capacity and research skills.
There is a great demand in Uzbekistan for experts in the field of research she is pursuing. Maftuna is an excellent candidate for your program due to the relevance of the research she is proposing, as well as her commitment to improving post services in Uzbekistan. She possesses a high potential to become an influential researcher in Uzbekistan and beyond, especially in topics such as accelerated post service and digital technologies.


- What are applicant’s capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses? (in regards to academic achievement, passion and interest for intended major, future academic potential, integrity, responsibility, independence, creativity, adaptability, communication skills, and others)

I am Maftuna’s research supervisor at the master’s program she is pursuing and my primary reason for choosing her among many candidates was her extraordinary academic potential, research potential and motivation. Among the students I have taught and supervised, Maftuna has always stood out with her solid knowledge, autonomous approach to study, her curiosity and sharp intelligence. She has been one of the genius students at our university. I am pleased to say that Maftuna is good at utilizing her own intangible resources such as soft skills and intellectual strength, as she is working on something of utmost importance to Uzbekistan in shipping services industry. Maftuna has mostly invested her time and energy in projects that contribute to the overall wellbeing of humanity, ease of life and simplified work. This has been reflected in the projects, research questions and work she has engaged herself in. For example, she is now working on a research project that aims to compare and contrast shipping services in South Korea and Uzbekistan. She is hoping to create a way for Uzbekistan to achieve efficient logistical solutions comparable to those in Korea. I have already seen her drafts and analyses, and I enjoyed reading her cohesive, well-structured, logically concise, strong drafts for research. Her strengths thus include her powerful orientation towards academics and research.

Furthermore, Maftuna is a very responsible individual. She has demonstrated numerous times that she takes her studies and career goals very seriously. She is a responsible person in general, in regard to the way she treats other people both within and outside work or study atmospheres. She has clear goals and objectives for her career and maintains strong discipline in her action plans. I believe that Maftuna is therefore a doer and achiever. It is great to know that Maftuna has decided to respond to an important issue during her Ph.D. research, because I am confident that with her motivation, discipline and responsibility, she is highly likely to achieve her research goals. She is able to motivate other people too, as she is highly confident and promotes confidence, clarity, boldness and courage to the people who communicate with her.
Commenting on her personality, I personally respect her openness, creativity and kindness. I get along really well with her due to her honest communication, self-respect and respect for me. We maintain a strong relationship with her both as a teacher and a student, and as researchers. I have observed many times that Maftuna is a sociable person who demonstrates tolerance, openness, support and empathy towards other people. This makes her a very adaptable and sociable person, who can communicate with diverse groups of people well and stay away from stereotypes. She highly respects foreign languages and tends to study various languages to communicate with their locals in their native language. This will be a valuable quality when she is in South Korea.
Maftuna is passionate about learning about practice, culture and education in other countries, so she worked hard to win a very prestigious scholarship to study 1 semester in South Korea. She obtained excellent grades there and returned with a broadened thinking and research ideas. Her experiences in South Korea have influenced her research interests greatly. She has decided to study in this country further, examining successful practices in the relevant industries in South Korea.
I am supervising her graduate research on global practice in utilizing digital solutions for effective post services. I have had several talks with her regarding her ideas and examined her research drafts now, and I can assure you that she is in an excellent standing as a researcher in this area. She will be able to successfully continue her research at the doctoral level with her knowledge and skills.
I believe that Maftuna has no major weaknesses that might hinder her successful doctoral studies. However, I believe that she needs an advanced level of Korean language in order to make her research and studies more effective in South Korea. So, it would probably be useful for her to improve her Korean proficiency in the future.


- Please comment on the applicant’s performance record, potential, or personal qualities which you believe would be helpful in considering the applicant’s application for the proposed degree/research program.

Maftuna has strong research skills, a solid understanding of her major and a very promising capacity for doctoral research. She has an excellent practice of research methods, academic writing and digital solutions for research. She is able to utilize contemporary resources for researchers with ease and will transition well to the rigorous Ph.D. program.

Commenting on her personality, I personally respect her openness, creativity and kindness. I get along really well with her due to her honest communication, self-respect and respect for me. We maintain a strong relationship with her both as a teacher and a student, and as researchers. I have observed many times that Maftuna is a sociable person who demonstrates tolerance, openness, support and empathy towards other people. This makes her a very adaptable and sociable person, who can communicate with diverse groups of people well and stay away from stereotypes. She highly respects foreign languages and tends to study various languages to communicate with their locals in their native language. This will be a valuable quality when she is in South Korea.
Maftuna is passionate about learning about practice, culture and education in other countries, so she worked hard to win a very prestigious university’s scholarship to study 1 semester in South Korea. She obtained excellent grades there and returned with a broadened thinking and research ideas. Her experiences in South Korea have influenced her research interests greatly. She has decided to study in this country further, examining successful practices in the relevant industries in South Korea

In conclusion, I highly recommend Maftuna Narzullaeva for the Global Korea Scholarship and believe that she will be one of the most successful students in this program.

Please contact me if I should provide additional information on Maftuna Narzullaeva.

Recommender’s Name Otakuzieva Zukhra