Hankuk University of Foreign Languages

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
motto	Veritas, Pax, Creatio Truth, Peace, Creation
founding	1954
Sponsorship	Private
place	Seoul and Yongin
country	South Korea
president	Kim In-chul
Students	15,260 (2005)
Professors	466 (2005)
Website	www.hufs.ac.kr (Korean / English)

Hankuk University of Foreign Languages
Korean alphabet :	한국 외국어 대학교
Hanja :	韓國 外國語 大 學校
Revised Romanization :	Hanguk Oegugeodaehakgyo
McCune-Reischauer :	Han'guk Oegugŏtaehakkyo

The Hankuk University of Foreign Languages (short form HUFS from the English name Hankuk University of Foreign Studies ) is a private university with two locations in Seoul and Yongin , South Korea . The university was founded in 1954 as the first university specializing in foreign language education in South Korea.

According to a ranking by the South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo, the university is currently one of the ten best universities in South Korea.

history

Hankuk University of Foreign Languages ​​was founded by entrepreneur Kim Heung-bae. He recognized the need for foreign language education for the country devastated in the Korean War . Kim initially established the Dongwon Education Foundation in 1952 to provide a legal and financial basis for establishing a university. In January 1954 the establishment was approved and on April 20, 1954 the Hankuk University for Foreign Languages ​​opened. The college consisted of five departments for English, French, Chinese, German and Russian and was headed by a dean.

The Hankuk University of Foreign Languages ​​was the first South Korean university to specialize in foreign language training. In 1955 the Spanish Department was established. Until then, the university used temporary accommodation in an office building in Jongno 2-ga. In September 1957, she moved into the newly established Seoul campus in Imun-dong. In 1958, the first 133 graduates graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Languages.

In September 1979 the university set up a branch in Yongin in the Gyeonggi-do province near the capital , which is now the Global Campus. In October 1980 it received the status of a full university with the colleges of Occidental Languages, Oriental Languages, Law , Economics , Education and Natural Sciences . More language sections were added over the years: in 2008, two new language sections for Mongolian and Ukrainian were established.

Administration building on the Seoul campus

Locations

The university facilities of the HUFS are divided into two locations: the Seoul campus, the main location and the global campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do . The Seoul campus has been located in Imun-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, an eastern part of Seoul, since 1957.

Global campus

The Global Campus was founded in 1979 as the Yongin Campus. Founded as a branch school of the university, it now has its own academic profile.

organization

Colleges

Seoul campus

College of English College of Japanese College of Chinese College of Occidental Languages College of Oriental Languages College of Social Sciences

College of Law College of Business and Economics College of Global Business Administration College of Education Division of International Studies

Global campus

College of Interpretation and Translation College of Central and East European Studies College of Languages ​​and Literature College of Humanities College of Economics and Business

College of Natural Science College of Information and Industrial Engineering Open Major Division of Humanities & Social Studies Open Major Division of Science & Engineering Division of International Sport & Leisure

courses

The College of Law on the Seoul campus

• The following language courses are jointly set up on both campuses:

English French German Japanese Chinese Spanish Russian

Italian Portuguese , Brazilian Malay , Indonesian Arabic Thai Indian

The following language courses are only available on the Seoul campus: Dutch Swedish , Danish , Norwegian Vietnamese Turkish , Azerbaijani Iranian Mongolian Korean for foreigners

The following language courses are only available on the Global Campus in Yongin: Polish Romanian Czech , Slovak Hungarian Serbian , Croatian Ukrainian Greek , Bulgarian Kazakh , Uzbek isiZulu , Hausa , Swahili

Other courses on the Seoul campus: International studies Social sciences law Sciences pedagogy Business and Economics

Further courses in the Global Campus: Humanities Economics and business administration Natural sciences Computer science and industrial technology

Partner universities

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Germany University of Hamburg , Germany Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , Germany University of Ljubljana , Slovenia Comenius University Bratislava , Slovakia Tenri University, Japan Sophia University , Japan Waseda University , Japan Kanda University of International Studies, Japan Toyo University , Japan Tokyo University , Japan Reitaku University, Japan Tsukuba University , Japan Tokyo Foreign Language University , Japan Yamaguchi University , Japan Oberlin University, Japan Fukushima University , Japan Bunkyo University, Japan Josai University, Japan Nagoya University , Japan Tsurumi University, Japan Singapore Management University , Singapore Almaty State University, Kazakhstan Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan Kazakh Institute of Management, Economics and Forecasting , Kazakhstan International University of Mongolia, Mongolia Azerbaijan University of Languages, Azerbaijan Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia King Saud University , Saudi Arabia

Seoul National University , South Korea Yonsei University , South Korea Korea University , South Korea Hanyang University , South Korea Kyung Hee University , South Korea Korean National University of Arts , South Korea Hongik University, South Korea Korean National Police University, South Korea Korean Military School, South Korea Dongguk University, South Korea Konkuk University, South Korea Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea Kookmin University, South Korea Duksung Women's University, South Korea Changwon National University, South Korea Busan University of Foreign Studies , South Korea University of Ulsan, South Korea Pyeongtaek University, South Korea Jeju College of Technology, South Korea Seoul Digital University, South Korea Cyber ​​Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} History of Hankuk University for Foreign Languages . Hankuk University of Foreign Languages. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
2. ↑ hufs.ac.kr

Web links

• Homepage of the Hankuk University for Foreign Languages ​​(Korean, English)
• HUFS in the Korean university ranking 2009 of the daily newspaper JoongAng Ilbo

Coordinates: 37 ° 35 '50 "  N , 127 ° 3' 30.7"  E