Depression and Revival
- Until 1995, the university was ranked top 10 overall and top 3 in the engineering field in South Korea. But due to unfair entrance examination standard, The Kwangwoon university was enforced to dismiss its public consortium, then go into the era of "official appointed chancellor" (the government appoint the official chancellor for university).This brought Kwangwoon university to a huge depression that maintained almost 10years.
- The new era started with coming of new president Kee Young Kim(2009). He announced that the revival of Kwangwoon university need contribution from both of students and professors. Then he made several innovation that includes increasing Internationalization, enhancing of professor's research intensity, etc. He also made several presentation to kwangwoon's student and professors to encourage their honors for being a member of kwangwoon university.
- "We have to rapidly rivive our Competitiveness as a top university of South Korea ,then our target is to build a "world class" research university.
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