History
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in April 1954 with its first students studying English, French, Chinese, German, Spanish and Russian. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, the college expanded its programmes and finally became a university in 1980. In 1981, it opened its second campus in Yongin, a satellite city of Seoul. The second campus teaches additional languages not provided in the first, namely Polish, Romanian, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Central Asian Languages (Kazakh and Uzbek) etc. as well as most subjects on offer at the Seoul campus. By doing so, the university has strong reputation in the field of diplomacy, broadcasting & mass media.
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has continued to set up new language departments, graduate courses, and various research institutes and currently boasts over 50 departments covering Social Sciences, Eastern European Studies, Humanities, Asia-African Studies, and Natural Sciences. The university also 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 Chinese, as well as Business Administration and Journalism and Mass Communication.
HUFS has been running its own foreign language examination system (FLEX). The FLEX Center is currently developing examinations for 19 languages in addition to the seven languages currently administered (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese). Furthermore, it plans to develop systems for balanced and scientific evaluation on 26 languages. FLEX has rapidly been growing nationwide class foreign language examination since its beginning, and is currently used as a reliable language evaluating system for numerous public and private organizations in the Republic of Korea.
As of 2010, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has academic exchange program agreements with 343 institutions throughout 74 nations.
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