HUFS Hankuk (Korea)

kuk University of Foreign Studies (abbreviated as HUFS is a private research university based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. HUFS currently teaches 45 foreign languages. In addition, it contains studies in humanities, law, social sciences, business, medical science, natural sciences, and engineering.

In April 1954, HUFS was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in by Kim Heung-bae with its first students studying English, French, Chinese, German and Russian.

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski giving a lecture at Hankuk University, October 2013.

In 2012, U.S President Barack Obama, during his visit to Korea, spoke at Hankuk University in Seoul about global progress toward nuclear non-proliferation.

Throughout its history, the university has been visited by numerous foreign dignitaries, including Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Joko Widodo of Indonesia, Viktor Orban of Hungary[5], Abdullah Gul of Turkey[6], Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of Mongolia, Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland, and many others.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has over 50 departments covering Social Sciences, Eastern European Studies, Humanities, Asia-African Studies, and Natural Sciences. The university contributes to regional studies, with graduate courses in international and regional studies.

Since 2004 the closely associated Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, based at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has been offering online courses in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, as well as business administration, journalism, and mass communication.

HUFS runs a foreign language examination system (FLEX). The FLEX Center is developing examinations for 19 languages in addition to the seven languages currently administered (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese). It plans for 26 languages more.

As of October 2014, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has academic exchange program agreements with 431 universities and 139 institutions throughout 88 nations.

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Address : 270 Imun-dong Seoul, South Korea

ContactMobile : +82-31-330-4114

Email : chongmoo@hufs.ac.kr

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HUFS Hankuk (Korea)

University of Foreign Studies (abbreviated as HUFS is a private research university based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. HUFS currently teaches 45 foreign languages.