Dankook University - Global Dankook and Mascot

Global Dankook and Mascot

Dankook University's mascot is the black bear. Each campus has a bronze bear statue.

Dankook University was the first private university established after Korea gained independence in 1947. The progressive spirit behind the founding of the university still leads the university today as it continues to rewrite the history of higher education in Korea.

During the past sixty years, Dankook University has endlessly displayed its frontier spirit as it introduced its second campus, and undertook major efforts to become a globalized university.

DKU now features 20 undergraduate colleges and 10 professional graduate schools divided between its new Jukjeon campus, constructed in 2007, and its Cheonan campus.

Both campuses have seen their share of international activity and exposure through DKU’s numerous international exchange programs and are now home to foreign students and faculty from countries such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.

The international presence at Dankook continues to grow thanks to its collaborative relationships with more than 90 universities from 30 countries around the world, including Stockholm University in Sweden, California State University and Ohio Northern University in the USA and La Trobe University in Australia. These relationships have fostered many successful international summer schools programs, student exchanges, and short-term visits abroad which have provided faculty, staff and students with golden opportunities for foreign exposure.