Ewha Womans University

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Ewha Womans University
motto 진 (眞) · 선 (善) · 미 (美)
Truth · Morality · Beauty
founding 1886
Sponsorship Private
place Seoul
country South Korea
president Kim Hei-sook
Students 21,050 (Apr., 2020)
15,698 undergraduates
5,352 postgraduates
Employee 1,580
including professors 972
Website www.ewha.ac.kr

Coordinates: 37 ° 33 ′ 42.7 ″  N , 126 ° 56 ′ 48.6 ″  E

The Ewha Womans University campus
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 이화 여자 대학교
Hanja : 梨花 女子 大 學校
Revised Romanization : Ihwa Yeoja Daehakgyo
McCune-Reischauer : Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo

The Ewha Womans University is a private university in Seoul , South Korea . It was founded in 1886 as the first women's college in Korea by Methodist missionary Mary Scranton .

It is one of the largest women's universities in the world and is very respected in South Korea. Male students are accepted as exchange students as well as at the university's own language center , Ewha Language Center . Male students are not permitted for bachelor, master or doctoral studies.

The founders decided to use “Womans” instead of “Woman's” or “Women's” because every woman should be respected. Not all female students are subsumed under the term "women".

The university is among the first in South Korea to offer a government program for lifelong learning to enable workers to graduate through evening classes. The project led to protests by many female students who feared for the reputation of the university.

Web links

Commons : Ewha Womans University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ock Hyun-ju: Ewha gets first directly elected president. In: The Korea Herald. May 26, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ewha at a Glance. Ewha Womans University, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 이화 여자 대학교 국제 교류 팀. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (Korean).
  4. ↑ EWHA LANGUAGE CENTER (이화 여자 대학교 언어 교육원). Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 이화 여자 대학교 국제 학생 팀. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (Korean).
  6. ↑ Jo Jeong-hui: 오해 받는 학교 영문 표기, 'Womans' University. In: The Ewha Weekly. March 9, 2009, accessed May 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Chung Hyun-chae: Ewha students protest opening of night college for workers. In: The Korea Times . July 28, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 .