Seowon University
Seowon University (Acronym: SWU, Korean: 서원대학교; RR: Seowon Daehakgyo, colloquially Seowondae) is a four-year private university located in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, South Korea.The undergraduate colleges are made up of nine faculties, twenty-five departments, and twenty-three majors.[1] It maintains sisterhood relationships with forty-seven universities in fifteen countries: Canada, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia, United States, Italy, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Vietnam, and Ukraine.[2] Seowon University was opened as Cheongju Women's Junior College on March 9, 1968.On March 1, 1973, it was reorganized into Cheongju Women's Normal University of Education.On September 20, 2006, the college opened Regional Innovation Center(RIC).Then in 2013, it opened Bio Convergence Center and held International Symposium.[3] In 2017, Seowon University won the Prime Minister's Award at the Small and Medium Business Technology Innovation Competition and received the Presidential Citation for 2017, Job Creation Support.The College of Global Management consists of three faculties with a focus on business.The programs are for the development of employee performance, employment, and starting a business.[12] Graduate School of Education is an institution for training pre-service teachers.It is divided into 16 departments of education and is a five-semester Tuesday and Thursday evening classes.