Member Universities

Kyung Hee University, Republic of South Korea

About the university

A private university, Kyung Hee has a comprehensive education system encompassing all grades from kindergarten to graduate school.  Founded in 1949 as a two-year college, Kyung Hee established a four-year university at the Seoul Campus in 1952. The Global Campus at Suwon opened in 1979, followed by the Kwangnung Campus in 1984.

As Kyung Hee moves toward its 60th anniversary in 2009, it ascertains prestige as a university of significance and infinite possibility despite its short history of only half a century. It has appointed the next fifty years as the second Renaissance for leading forward.  As Kyung Hee reaches for its goal of expanding to the competitive university, it is concentrating its efforts into strengthening the core capacity in the fields of education, internationalization, research, and university management.

Kyung Hee strives to bridge cultural and social gaps by promoting mutual understanding and prosperity. As a result, it encourages frequent exchanges with sister schools overseas to facilitate the exchange of ideas. These activities spread a shared belief in the value of learning. 

Location

Kyung Hee has three campuses, Seoul Campus, the Global Campus at Suwon and Kwangneung Campus.  Seoul Campus is located on the edge of Mt. Kohwang, in the northeast of Seoul. It has more of classical areas such as law, western and Korean medicine, pharmacy, political science, classical music and dance, etc.  Whereas the Global Campus at Suwon, about an hour away from the central part of Seoul, covers rather new application areas like engineering, international relations, foreign languages including the Korean major, physical education, post-modern music and so forth.  Kwangneung Campus is the third and smallest having only one special graduate school which is called the Graduate School of Peace Studies based on the founding spirit of Kyung Hee, World Peace.