Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

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Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
한국 외국어 대학교^[1]


Motto:	Dedicated to the Ideals of Challenge
Established:	1954
President:	Park Cheol (Hangeul: 박철)
Location:	Seoul; Yongin, South Korea
Campus:	Urban; Rural
Website:	www.hufs.ac.kr

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Hangul	한국 외국어 대학교
Hanja	韓國外國語大學校
Revised Romanization	Hanguk Oegugeo Daehakgyo
McCune-Reischauer	Hankuk Oegukŏ Taehakkyo

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies , one of the leading private universities in South Korea, has two campuses in Seoul and Yongin.The school owes its reputation largely to its strengths in languages and the social sciences. The pronunciation of the name in Korean is "Oedae", which means "foreign university".

1 History
2 Colleges and Academic Programmes
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in April 1954 with its first students studying English, French, Chinese, German and Russian. Through the 1960s and 70s, the college expanded its programmes and finally became a university in 1980. In 1981, it opened its second campus in Yongin near Seoul. There, students can study Eastern European languages, namely Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, etc. as well as most of the subjects on offer at the Seoul campus.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has continued to set up new language departments, graduate courses, and various research institutes. It has over 50 departments including Social Sciences, Eastern European Studies, Humanities, Asia-African Studies, and Natural Sciences. The university also contributes to regional studies, with graduate courses in international and regional studies.

Since 2004 the closely-associated Cyber University of Foreign Studies, based at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has been offering online courses in English, Japanese and Chinese, as well as Business Administration and Journalism and Mass Communication.