Jeju National University is a public university founded in 1952 in Jeju City, the provincial capital of Jeju, South Korea. In 2008 Cheju National University and the Jeju National University of Education merged into Jeju National University.
In 1952, Cheju Provincial Junior College was founded and became a four-year college in 1955. It became Cheju National College in 1962, with faculties of law and science. The graduate school was established in 1979, and the college received university status in 1982.
Since its 1952 opening, followed by remarkable growth in quality and quantity, Jeju National University has established itself as an international institution of higher learning.
Our university now faces the need for an innovative change of thought on the institutional competitiveness hitherto strengthened. It is time to think seriously about the basics and the future direction beyond mere competitions with our peer institutions. Thus, Jeju National University is committing itself to rebuild the real competitiveness as an institution the faculty and the students are proud of, the staff of being happy and worthy, and the university and the Jeju growing together.
“The university faithful to the basics and the university prepared for the future,”
Truth is the genuine principle or reason that represents common laws or facts recognized at all times and places and by every person. Justice is the genuine reason that implies interpersonally sincere relation or fair reason to sustain the constituent society. Creation is to make new and imaginative works that aim to establish cultural and material values. Understand the universal knowledge about man and the world, realize individual and societal freedom and equality, and establish the future-oriented values through critique and accommodation of the tradition. Comprehend the truth through studying humans, society, and nature, play the leading role to realize justice based on genuine understanding, and create new values for the advancement of the individual, nation, and human race.
The educational goals of Jeju National University are to train individuals who contribute to the regional, national and global societies through the spiritual pursuit of Truth, Justice, and Creation based on the concept of devotion to the welfare of humankind.
- Self-realizing well-rounded person
- Knowledge and value-creating expert
- Society-serving leading intellectual
- Integrity-,open-minded global leader
- To develop a mature individual who understands and respect humanity, society, and nature.
- To foster specialized creative individual who explores and pursues new knowledge and technology.
- To cultivate future-oriented leadership that devotes itself to the development of regional society and its culture.
- To advance globally conscious citizenship by establishing self-identity and respecting diversity.
