Soongsil University

Infobox University
name = Soongsil University
native_name = _ko. 숭실대학교


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motto = _ko. 진리와 봉사 "(Truth and Service)"
established = October 10, 1897
type = Private
president = Hyo-Gae Lee ( _ko. 이효계)
city = Dongjak-gu
state = Seoul
country = South Korea flagicon|South Korea
faculty = 397 (April 2008) [cite web|url=http://www.ssu.ac.kr/A_univ/e_situation/staff.jsp|title= _ko. 교원현황 (The status of the Staff)|accessdate=2008-06-17|language=Korean]
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website = [http://eng.ssu.ac.kr/ www.ssu.ac.kr]
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Infobox Korean name
hangul=숭실대학교
hanja=崇實大學校
rr=Sungsil Daehakgyo
mr=Sungsil Taehakkyo

Soongsil University (SSU) is a private Christian university in South Korea. The campus is located in 551 Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul.

History

Soongsil University was founded on October 10, 1897 in Pyongyang as a private school by Dr. William M. Baird, a missionary of the Northern Presbyterian Church of America. In 1900 the school was developed into an official 4-year junior high school. In October 1901 the school was named Soongsil Hakdang ( _ko. 숭실학당, "Soongsil Academy"). The name, "Soongsil" ( _ko. 숭실), roughly means "Revering [God] (or, Respecting [God] ; _ko. 숭 "soong") with Truth and Integrity ( _ko. 실 "sil")".

In 1905 the Hakdang was permitted by the missionary body to establish a university (called Union Christian College), which was later authorized as a university by Japanese colonial government in March 1912. But in 1925 the school was forcibly reduced to a 4-year technical school of humanities (named _ko. 숭실전문학교(崇實專門學校), pronounced "Sūjitsu Senmon Gakkō" in Japanese) [See the section '02. Beginning of modern higher education under Japanese colonialism: Soongsil hakdang' in the cite web|url=http://ssu.dajim.co.kr/about/overview.jsp|title=Overview of Soongsil History|accessdate=2008-09-15] . On March 4, 1938 the school closed itself in order to protest against the enforcement of Shinto shrine worship.

In August 1945 Korea was liberated from colonialism, but the effort to restore the Soongsil College did not succeed until the cease-fire of the Korean War. In April 1954 Soongsil College was reestablished in South Korea and in June 1957 it moved to the present-day Sangdo-dong Campus. In 1971 the College was merged with Daejun College ( _ko. 대전대학(大田大學), not to be confused with present-day Daejeon University) into Soongjun College ( _ko. 숭전대학(崇田大學)) [cite web|url=http://ssu.dajim.co.kr/about/chronology_01.jsp|title=Chronology of Soongsil History|accessdate=2008-09-15] . In December 1971 the College acquired a university status. In December 1982, Daejeon Campus of Soongjun University was separated and renamed Hannam University. In November 1986, Soongjun University was renamed Soongsil University.

Undergraduate Schools

* College of Humanities
* College of Natural Sciences
* College of Law
* College of Social Sciences
* College of Business and Economics
* College of Engineering
* College of Information Technology

Graduate Schools

* General Graduate School
* Special Graduate Schools
** Graduate School of Industry and Information Technology
** Graduate School of Small Business
** Graduate School of Information Sciences
** Graduate School of Labor and Industrial Relations
** Graduate School of Social Welfare Policies
** Graduate School of International Commerce and Regional Economy
** Graduate School of Education
** Graduate School of Christian Studies
** Graduate School of Business Administraton

Institutes

* Library and Center for Academic Information
* Korean Christian Museum
* Center for Small Business Incubator
* Center for Lifelong Education
* Research Institutes of Humanities (7 institutes)
* Research Institutes of Social Science (6 institutes)
* Research Institutes of Technology (9 institutes)

References

External links

* [http://www.ssu.ac.kr/ Official Website] (Korean)
* [http://eng.ssu.ac.kr/ Official Website] (English)