Member Profile
Kyung Hee University
Kyung Hee University is a private research university encompassing an educational system from kindergarten to graduate school with campuses in Seoul, Yongin, and Gwangneung (on the outskirts of Namyangju city), South Korea.Kyung Hee University has 24 colleges, 71 departments and majors, 65 master's and 63 doctorate programs, 18 professional and special graduate schools, and 43 auxiliary research institutions.[citation needed] The university counts Slavoj Žižek, Jason Barker and Emanuel Pastreich among its international professors. The university celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2009. In 1993 Kyung Hee received the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.: In 2006, Kyung Hee and the University of Pennsylvania initiated the Penn-Kyung Hee Collaborative Summer Program and two years later a formal Global Collaborative with Peking, Ritsumeikan, and Moscow State universities; the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; and the Conference of NGOs (CoNGO). Kyung Hee's interdisciplinary bio-medical cluster maintains one of the world's leading research programs for the study of oriental medicine and its application to contemporary medical treatment in tandem with Western approaches, including the world's first successful drug-free acupunctural anesthesia demonstration in 1972. As of 2011 Kyung Hee University maintains sister relationships with 402 universities in 68 countries. Address : 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17104, Republic of Korea Tel : 82-31-201-2301~4 | Fax : 82-31-204-8120
Type: Affiliate Member |
Date Joined: February 1, 2012 |
Principal Contact: Dohoon Kim |
TM Forum Engagement Manager: Puja Singh |