Hankuk Univ of Foreign Studies Station
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http://www.hufs.ac.kr/user/hufsenglish/index.html
The 51-year history of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) has been marked with an unbroken succession of steady development since the founder of the University, the late Dr. Heung-Bae Kim, used his personal assets to establish a university for advanced foreign language training.
In April 1954 the University admitted its first students to the five departments of English, French, Chinese, German and Russian at the Yongbo Building in downtown Seoul, from which it moved in 1957 to its current site in the eastern part of the city.
With the increasing involvement of Korea with the global community since the 1960s, HUFS played a key role in providing the nation with expert human resources who lead the nation towards the international arena and towards the nation's brilliant economic success.
This, in turn, gave the university further momentum to expand its program so that through the 1960s and the '70s, HUFS continued to set up new departments of foreign languages, graduate courses, and various research institutes. At the same time, to steer the University's curriculum towards a full-fledged interdisciplinary approach to international studies, non-foreign language departments in law, economics, and education were added. By the late 1970s, HUFS's leading position among the universities of the nation was indisputable.
The 1980s was for HUFS both a challenge and an opportunity. In 1980 the government promoted the university's status from a foreign language college to a full-scale university. To facilitate its expansion, HUFS opened its second campus in Yong-in near Seoul in 1981 which housed, along with branch programs of its prestigious foreign language departments, new departments in natural science, philosophy, history, and later, engineering.
By the early 1990s HUFS successfully added to its previous reputation as a specialist center of foreign studies a breadth of comprehensiveness and universality requisite to a full-scale university. A crowning moment in the university's efforts to keep up its unique tradition and to incorporate new programs was the selection in 1996 of HUFS, along with other older universities including Seoul National University and Yonsei University, as one of the recipients of a special government grant given to the institutions with the best qualifications to train international experts. With the government support, HUFS established the Graduate School of International Area Studies and recruited the first group of students in 1997. This symbolically confirmed the University's leading role in the next century as a center for international studies in an increasingly globalized world.
The 2000s is the period of maturity and stability for HUFS. A public foundation was finally established in 2004 under the supervision of a board recommended by members of the University. This is the first step for HUFS to move forward towards the period of harmony and development.
As of March 2005, there are 15 divisions and 49 departments in HUFS. The College of English, the College of Occidental Languages, the College of Oriental Languages, the College of Social Sciences, the College of Law, the College of Business & Economics, the College of Education, Open Major Division, Division of international Studies, the Graduate School, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Global Business, the Graduate School of Policy Science, the Graduate School of Management & Information Science, the Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation, the Graduate School of International Studies, various research centers and Computer Center are located in Seoul campus. The College of Humanities, the College of West European and American studies, the College of Central and East European Studies, the College of Asian&African studies, the College of Economics and Business, the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Information and Industrial Engineering, Open Major Division(Humanities & Social Studies) and Open Major Division(Science & Engineering) are located on the Yong-in campus. HUFS has foreign exchange agreememts with 147 unversities in 57 countries now and is becoming more and more internationalized.
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