Request to Support .ac.kr Domains for Student Discount

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Dear Cursor Team,

I hope this message finds you well.

I’m a student at Pusan National University in South Korea. I recently learned about Cursor’s student discount program and was very excited to try out the Pro features to support my academic and development work. However, I noticed that only .edu domains are currently eligible for student verification.

In South Korea, most universities, including mine, use the “.ac.kr” domain (e.g., pusan.ac.kr) for official student emails. As such, students like myself are currently unable to benefit from the student discount program, despite being full-time university students.

I would be very grateful if you could consider adding support for Korean university domains such as “.ac.kr” to the student program in the future. This would allow many students in Korea to access Cursor more affordably and fully experience its powerful AI development features.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I’m looking forward to using Cursor to enhance my coding projects.

Best regards,
[Your Name]
Student, Pusan National University

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Is this AI generated? AFSIK, Some Korean University allow their students to change email address without limitation.

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Dear Cursor Team,

I hope this message finds you well.

I’m a student at Pusan National University and recently came across Cursor’s student discount program. I was very excited to try the Pro features to support my academic and development work. However, I noticed that only .edu domains are currently eligible for student verification.

My university uses the domain [pusan.ac.kr](http://pusan.ac.kr) for all official student emails. This is a university-issued address tied to each student’s identity and is used for all academic and administrative purposes. Unfortunately, since the .[ac.kr](http://ac.kr) domain is not currently accepted, I’m unable to access the student discount even though I am a full-time student.

Just to clarify: although the domain [pnu.edu](http://pnu.edu) may sometimes appear, it is not an official student email domain. It functions only as an alias or forwarding address. Emails sent to @[pnu.edu](http://pnu.edu) are internally redirected to the actual @[pusan.ac.kr](http://pusan.ac.kr) accounts. Students cannot create or customize these addresses — they are automatically assigned and managed by the university.

This message was written with the help of AI assistance, which I used to better articulate my request clearly and respectfully.

I would truly appreciate it if you could consider supporting [pusan.ac.kr](http://pusan.ac.kr) for student verification in the future. It would allow me — and possibly others in similar situations — to fully benefit from Cursor’s powerful features.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Best regards,
Y. Mun
Student, Pusan National University

2025년 6월 1일 (일) 오후 9:33, kega via Cursor - Community Forum <[email protected]>님이 작성:

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no need yelling,
the discount program is a racist program,
that mostly white people’s countries are entertained.

https://www.cursor.com/■■/students

Which universities are eligible?

Due to our verification process, this promotion is only available for verified students at universities in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.

only a handful of asian or african countries.

no china’s taiwan? where they make chips that make AI possible?
no south korea? where they make android popular? and HBM which are used in AI chips.
no india? who produce many CEOs of silicon valley.
no China? AI is chinese in china vs chinese in USA.

those in europe are free riders, they sell cheese, wine, clothing and handbags.