Introduction
to
Ewha Womans University
(梨花女子大學校)
http://www.ewha.ac.kr
Ewha Womans University
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Founded in 1886 by an American missionary
woman.
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No public education system for women at that time.
Ewha means “pear flower”, 梨花
Why “Womans” not “Womens” in the name?
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Official announcement on this “Ewha started with only
one student”
First building of Ewha (1886)
Overview
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Biggest Womens University in the World keeping
high quality
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Comprised of 12 graduate school. 14 college, 62
department
Including Medicine, Arts, Music, Movement and
Engineering etc.
Number of Professors: 685
 15,832 undergraduate student
 2,000 graduate students
From Digital Ewha Album
• First college graduate in
student 1914
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‘Elizabeth’ Queen of
United Kingdom of
Britain visited 1999.
She said “Wonderful”
Right: President Sang
Chang
Location: Center of Seoul
near City Hall, Presidential Office
Campus Map of Ewha
Yonsei(延世) Univ.
Shinchon(新村) Area
College of Engineering
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Established in 1996.
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Consists of 4 Departments
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The First Engineering college of the Women’s Univ. in
the World
Is it Another Venture? Woman as Engineer?
Computer Science and Engineering (1981)
Electronics Engineering (1994)
Architecture (1994)
Environmental Engineering (1993)
Number of Faculty: 34
Number of Graduate Students: about 200
Number of Undergraduate student: 950
Building: College of Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science &
Engineering
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Founded on 1981
Professsors: 17
Undergraduate Students: 200
Graduate Students: around 100
Department’s Flagship Research Project
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Chamois: Knowledge Engineering Platform
 Component based Data Mining, Warehousing etc.
 Director: Prof. Won Kim since 1999-present
Organizing International Conference called
Human.Society@Internet
Grand Auditorium
(about 2000 seats size)
Couple dance during Festival, 1960s
New Campus Valley designed by
Dominique Perrault
Woman Rate Status in Korea
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High-ranking public officials
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Economicaly active participation rate: 49.7%
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Women portion: now 4.4% => until 2005, goal is 10%
OECD Nation’s Average: 78%
Employee rate in Public Enterprise: 10%
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Government now try to increase this rate to 20% within
5 years
This rate is included in enterprise evaluation
Woman Rate Status in Academy
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Women student rate in University: 36.3%
Women portion of total Ph.d degree 22% but
women professors rate:14.1%
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Professors rate
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In Private Univ.: 16.1%
National Univ.: 8.8% (very low relatively)
Government Policy
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Ewha Univ.: 54%
SNU College of Engineering: only 1 in 270 prof.
Make 20% by allocating quota for womens.
So, Many chances will be given for women in
Korea Now.
Thank you!
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