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