Gachon University is self-proclaimed and officially-acknowledged as the "university with the greatest potential for growth in Korea." It is an ambitious and exuberant university teeming with relentlessly challenging spirits. From the beginning, we have never failed to recreate and reform whenever we identified issues or problems, be they big or small. Fueled by all these efforts to make things better, we have been rejuvenating day by day like spring greens.
The University has also been the birthplace of countless patents, applied and registered in Korea and overseas, and has won a succession of research projects.
Gachon University Station is directly connected to the University and its lecture rooms by an underground passage. Moreover, the highway bus stop that was newly opened makes it easy for students who commute from a long distance.
With this advantage of location, Gachon has carried out local industrial-educational cooperation with Pangyo Techno Valley in Seongnam City. What is more, the Medical Campus of Gachon University, located near Songdo International Business District (Songdo IBD), is providing the best environment for education with the medical and research infrastructure of Gachon Gil Foundation, which is comprised of Gachon University Gil Hospital, Gachon University Neuroscience Research Institute, Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, and more. The founding principles of Gachon University are "Caritas, Devotio, Patriotismus," or "Compassion, Devotion, Patriotism" in English. It might sound like a cliché to some of today's young generation. However, it is all about producing patriotic citizens who will serve the nation by being compassionate and devoted to reaching out and caring for the disadvantaged people in our society through education.
The fourth industrial revolution of artificial intelligence that we are experiencing today has brought about a world where there are no correct answers. Now, you can search and find as much knowledge as you want with the help of the Internet. The old and fixed knowledge of the 20th century accepting only the best answers is now useless. We live in a new century where the rules of games can change overnight and where today's latest technology can become outdated by tomorrow. In this century, you can cope with the upheavals of the times only when you have both an innovative mind and competency.
Gachon University incubates and nurtures challenging leaders full of knowledge, thinking skills, adventurous spirits, curiosity, big hearts, and positive energy. We want our students to be the first penguin that jumps into the icy ocean of the Antarctic ahead of all others--- leaders with an invincible spirit that does not hesitate in the face of the unknown frozen ocean when all others hang back. It does not matter if you fail once in a while. Failure is a priceless fertile ground in life. Those who follow only the footsteps of others can never leave their footsteps.
We still have a long way to go. We are just a step away from being one of the top ten universities in Korea. However, we must keep running forward like a rhino until we move beyond Korea and stand tall and healthy in the world as a prestigious global educational institute.
The competitiveness of a university is the competitiveness of its students. At the same time, the competitiveness of individual students is the best way to build a university's competitiveness. The future is bright for Gachon University graduates when the University's competitiveness and the competitiveness of students interconvert continuously and organically. We present the necessary directions to maximize university integration's synergy and achieve our goals for development.
- Advancing the quality of student education to the international-class level and leaping growth to become a prestigious global university
- Selection and commitment to investment in the areas of specialization (G2N3+GL) to take a leap of growth and become a prestigious university that serves as the driving force for the development of college education
- Economical operation and management of projects by building a quantitative evaluation system and conative university management system to respond to the changing educational environment of Korea and the world as a whole
- Presentation and prioritization of practical and organic tasks and projects to realize the vision of a "prestigious global university."
- Establishment of a permanent organization to carry out and evaluate projects concretely and continuously.
- Establishment of specialized development strategies to boost the reputation of Gachon University and concentrate on supporting resources to realize them
