Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea

ABOUT

The beginning of Seoul National University (SNU) goes back to the late nineteenth century when Korean Emperor Gojong made present day advanced education organizations which later got to be a piece of SNU.

In 1895 Emperor Gojong issued Imperial Order 49 and created the National Law Academy as the first advanced education organization in Korea. It turned out 209 graduates including the Martyr Yi Jun.

The Hansung Teacher Training School, the first current educator preparing school was implicit that year and later turned into the SNU College of Education.

The Euihakkyo (the Medical School) was created by law in 1899 and raised current restorative specialists. Ji Seok Young, an incredible researcher and specialist who had effectively battled off the smallpox in Korea, drove the School as the vital for a long time.

The University was at long last ready to resume classes in September 1947, following a year of disorder.

Actually amid this time of departure, personnel and understudies strived to grow the range of learning for understudies: the College of Pharmacy was secured in September 1950; the College of Art was partitioned into the College of Fine Art, Music in April 1953,Department of Veterinary Medicine in the College of Agriculture was made into the College of Veterinary Medicine. Therefore, the college turned into a coordinated instructive establishment with 12 schools and a doctoral level college.

With the suspension of the Korean War, Seoul National University came back to Seoul in September 1953. Notwithstanding, the repercussions of the war was heartbreaking for the college. In a few divisions, more than a large portion of the understudies turned up gone amid the war and a considerable lot of the educators had crossed the fringe into North Korea, been grabbed, or removed. The first grounds had been devastated because of its use as an armed force base. Also, old reports that had been kept in Kyujanggak as national fortunes must be discovered and restored, in the wake of having been stuffed and covered up by North Koreans with the expectation of taking them to the North.

The University soon started reclamation with the objective of building a college for the country. It was resolved to be the head organization of advanced education that could speak to the nation, and further advance the eventual fate of the country. To guarantee its self-sufficiency, the college received the arrangement of getting the assent of the educators in naming the president and VP of the school starting in 1954. In 1955, the images speaking to the college personality of every College were brought together and turned into those right now utilized today. Likewise, the Graduate Schools of Public Health and Public Administration were made amid this time.

Through the directing of strict doorway exams starting in 1955, just the most very qualified understudies started to enter the University. Youthful and energetic teachers joined the school too, putting the school as the unquestionable pioneer of advanced education in Korea. . Then again, concentrated doctoral level colleges were permitted to be built. Amid this time, the Graduate School of Law , Education , Mass Communication  and Environmental Studies were made.

Incorporating the University SystemFrom February 1975 when the primary grounds was moved

All Colleges and Graduate Schools with the exception of the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy, which stayed on the Yongon-dong grounds, and the College of Agriculture, which stayed in Suwon, moved to the current Gwanak grounds in February 1975.

In this process, a few progressions were made to the association of the universities: the College of Art and Literature and the Commerce were segrated into the Colleges of Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Business Administration. The college was currently redesigned with 15 Colleges, one Graduate School, and three Specialized Schools.

The Measure additionally constrained colleges to expand confirmations numbers while forcing shares on the quantities of graduating understudies. Private coaching for secondary school understudies was additionally banned. Accordingly, the Gwanak grounds saw the span of its understudy body twofold and experienced a lack of offices. The whole grounds got to be just about like a development site when the building of new offices began with a trust which was structured past the point of no return.

The objective of "exploration arranged training" that Seoul National University once endeavored to accomplish after the opening of the Gwanak grounds appeared to be postponed for years to come because of the approaches authorized by the military government.

From a National University to a Global University

The start of the 21st century Ten-Year University Development Program," which was received in 1977, announced three perfect attributes that the school is to constantly endeavor to typify: that is being "a college of training," "a college of the country," and "a worldwide college." The Program was produced into "Future Ideals in the 2000s", which was embraced in 1995 as a major aspect of endeavors to turn into a "Doctoral level college Centered International University." This was altered toward the start of the 21st century with more accentuation being put on undergrad and general instruction, so the school may be created in the setting of a world-class research and doctoral level college focused college.

The "Long haul Development Plan" was embraced in 2007 with clear dreams in three stages: upgrading instructive accomplishment at the most elevated amount all around by the year 2010; securing the most astounding world-class level of exploration capacity by concentrating on interdisciplinary research by 2015; and driving the college to turn into a world-class research college by the year 2025.