Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
한국외국어대학교[1]
Motto Veritas, Pax, Creatio
Truth, peace, creation
Type Private
Established 1954
President Kim In-chul
Academic staff
 613
Students 27,351
Undergraduates 23,661
Postgraduates 3,690
Location Seoul, Yongin, South Korea
Campus Urban; rural
Website www.hufs.ac.kr/user/hufsenglish/
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Hangul 한국외국어대학교
Hanja 韓國外國語大學校
Revised Romanization Hanguk Oegugeo Daehakgyo
McCune–Reischauer Han'guk Oegugŏ Taehakkyo

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) is a private research university based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The university was founded in 1954 to promote foreign language education in post-war Korea. The university is located in Seoul and Yongin. The name of the university is derived from the romanization of the Korean word hankuk (Korean: 한국; Hanja: 韓國) which means Korea.

The university is widely considered as one of the best private higher educations in South Korea, especially on foreign language and social science. Numerous diplomats and ambassadors are graduates of HUFS. It has a graduate school of interpretation and translation.

In 2007, HUFS won third place of Korean universities on the National Customer Satisfaction Index, and was placed second in terms of internationalization two years in a row in the university rankings of JoongAng Ilbo. The evaluation also ranked HUFS second in Korea for its research, faculty, reputation and alumni representation among schools without a medical school in 2008. In 2010, the university was ranked as the best Korean university on the subject of globalization in the QS World University Rankings.

Seoul Campus

History

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in April 1954 by Kim Heung-bae with its first students studying English, French, Chinese, German, Spanish and Russian. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the college expanded its programmes and became a university in 1980.

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski given a lecture at Hankuk University, October 2013.

In 1981, it opened its second campus in Yongin, a satellite city of Seoul.

In 2012, U.S President Barack Obama, during his visit to Korea, spoke at Hankuk University in Seoul about global progress toward nuclear non-proliferation.[2]

Campus

Global Campus
HUFS Global campus shuttlebus

The university is composed of two campuses, the Seoul Campus located in the eastern region of Seoul, and its suburban campus in Yongin which is called Global Campus. A third campus is being established in Songdo International Business District.

Seoul Campus is the main campus of the university. It is located in Imun-ro, Dongdaemun District.

Global campus teaches additional languages not provided in Seoul, namely Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Central Asian Languages (Kazakh and Uzbek) etc. as well as most subjects on offer at the Seoul campus.

Colleges

Seoul Campus

Global Campus

Graduate School

Graduate School

Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation

Features of the education courses

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has over 50 departments covering Social Sciences, Eastern European Studies, Humanities, Asia-African Studies, and Natural Sciences. The university contributes to regional studies, with graduate courses in international and regional studies.

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

HUFS runs a foreign language examination system (FLEX). The FLEX Center is developing examinations for 19 languages in addition to the seven languages currently administered (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese). It plans for 26 languages more.[3]

As of October 2014, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has academic exchange program agreements with 431 universities and 139 institutions throughout 88 nations.[4]

International exchange

FLEX

Under the foreign language certification system, students who have double majors are required to achieve certain scores on the FLEX (Foreign Language EXamination) test for graduation, apart from graduation certification. In principle, students need to receive certification on their proficiency in foreign language. Many kinds of languages in FLEX: English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Indian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Dutch and so on.

Auxiliary educational organizations

HUFS alumni

Alumni who honored HUFS.

2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

2010 Distinguished Alumni Award

Partner universities

There are 411 partner institutions in 93 nations.

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Europe

South America

North America

Middle East

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Abbreviations of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korean: (한국) 외대((韓國) 外大; Hanguk Oedae). In English: HUFS
  2. ↑ President Obama Speaks at Hankuk University.
  3. ↑ FLEX, http://builder.hufs.ac.kr/user/hufsenglish/ac_5.jsp
  4. ↑ exchange program agreements, http://www.hufs.ac.kr/user/hufsenglish/index.html, viewed 05/08/2008

Coordinates: 37°35′50″N 127°03′31″E / 37.597215°N 127.058537°E / 37.597215; 127.058537

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