Kangnam University

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Kangnam University

Motto Worship of God and Love for One's neighbors
Established 1946
Type Private
President Yun Shin-il
Location Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Campus Urban
Mascot white sheep
Website http://www.kangnam.ac.kr
Kangnam University
Hangul:
강남대학교
Hanja:
江南大學校
Revised Romanization: Gangnam Daehakgyo
McCune-Reischauer: Kangnam Taehakkyo

Kangnam University is a private Christian university located in Yongin, South Korea. Founded July 1, 1946 by Reverend Yi Ho-bin as the Choong-ang Theology Institute, the school initially met at a lecture hall in the local Seoul YMCA in Seoul, South Korea. The institution eventually moved in 1967 to Jangsa-dong in Seoul and then to the Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu of Seoul in 1974. In 1976, the school was renamed the Kangnam Social Welfare School; the name, which the university kept to this day, comes from the city ward it was located in at the time. In 1980, the school left Seoul and moved to its present location in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Kangnam received its university accreditation in 1992.

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