Dankook University

Hey there team,

I was fortunate enough to be able to get over to Yongin today and have a look at Dankook University.  It wasn't necessarily a planned thing, but it was one of those opportunities that just happened to pop up and present itself.   Alas, I got to see the school. 

And I must say I really did like the look of the place indeed.  

You know, it reminds me of my old school back home, Flinders University in Adelaide South Australia.   Dankook University has a really modern, updated, clean, open, progressive feeling about it.   It feels like a modern place of education should feel - like it has a passion for yesterday and today while creating a better tomorrow. 

Inaugurated in 1947, Dankook Universities seeks to help society attain 3 central things - National Salvation, Independence, and Self reliance.   If you know anything about Korean history up until that time, you will indeed know why the founders of the school sought to impart these 3 tennets.    Between the years 1910 and 1945, Korea was colonized as an annexe of Japan.   Korea suffered horrendously at the hands of the Japanese, and if Korea was to get back to its feet, then it was going to have to thoroughly embed the above tennets into its national psyche.   

The plan for Dankook University to achieve its goals was to set up an educational system that would have students seeking truth and being better humans through development of respect, being prepared to be creative, and turning theory into practice.  

Dankook University has a broad range of schools to help execute the disciplines necessary to be a force in todays world.   The University has schools of Humanities, Law, Social Science, Business, Natural Sciences, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Arts, Music, Liberal Arts, Economics/Commerce, Bio-resources, Sport Science, Dentistry, and Medicine.  

The school's Graduate Programs evolve from programs such as Industry/Business Admin, Legal Studies/Policy Admin, Information Technology, Special Ed, Real Estate, and TESOL. 

Dankook is a University that is certainly moving forward indeed.   You can read more about the school here..

http://www.dankook.ac.kr/web/eng/home#

Its schools like Dankook that sure help to make the world go round.