Opening the first chapter of private schools in Korea
- 1947
- Opens as the first full-time private university in the post-independence era Buildings open in Nagwon-dong, Seoul (Departments of Law, Political Science, History, Mathematics and Physics)
- 1949
- Buildings move to Sindang-dong, Seoul
- 1951
- Temporary move to Busan during the Korean War; university holds ceremony for the first graduating class of 104 students at Deoksan Elementary School in Daegu
- 1957
- Campus construction starts in Hannam-dong, Seoul, and the university returns to Seoul
- 1958
- Graduate School opens its doors
Setting milestones
- 1967
- Elevated to university status
- 1975
- Establish Dankook Farmer Training School in Cheongyang, South Chungcheong Province
- 1978
- Cheonan Campus opens
- 1984
- Dankook University Dental Hospital opens
- 1988
- Hold International Sports Science Congress in commemoration of the ‘88 Seoul Olympics
- 1994
- Dankook University Hospital opens
A New Challenge, a New Vision
- 1996
- Construction starts for a new campus in Jukjeon, Gyeonggi Province
- 2005
- Selected as the outstanding university and graduate school from the Comprehensive University Evaluation in Korea
- 2007
- Completion of the Jukjeon Campus construction and relocation of the Seoul Campus to Jukjeon area
- Celebration of the University's 60th Anniversary
- 2008
- 30th Anniversary of the Cheonan Campus
- Compiled the world's largest unabridged Chinese character dictionary, ‘the Great Chinese-Korean dictionary (16 volumes)'
- Selected for the World Class University (WCU) program by fostering research-oriented universities
Envisioning Dankook's Future as it Leaps into the World
- 2009
- Establish the School Policy-oriented Research Institute, strengthening the foundation for research competitiveness
- 2010
- Receive ABEEK and KAAB certification
- Established the College of Pharmacy and University IP Holding Company
- 2011
- Full-fledged execution of the university's specialization efforts
- Jukjeon: IT and CT specialization, Cheonan: BT and foreign language specialization
- 2012
- Selected for the Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation (LINC) program
- 2013
- Sets up plan for academic unit adjustment
- Receives approval for main campus and sub-campus consolidation and building a multi-campus system
Main Campus and Sub-campus Consolidation / One University-Two Campus System
- 2013~2016
- Receives highest scores in the annual evaluation of the ‘Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation (LINC)’ program for four consecutive years
- 2014~2018
- Selected for the Leading Universities for Startups program
- CK project applies to department level
- 2017
- Selected for the ‘Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation Plus (LINC+)’ program Selected for the ‘Software-oriented University’ project Dankook University Sejong Medical Clinic and Sejong Dental Hospital open
- 2018
- Selected for the ‘Leading Innovative Universities for the 4th Industrial Revolution’ program Launches phase 2 of AI (artificial intelligence) chatbot
Specialization in IT·CT·BT·Foreign Language and Industry-Academia Collaboration
- 2019~
- Dankook History Museum opened Launched Korea’s first AI educational support service, Dan.i Built digital-based active learning classrooms Selected as an organizing university for the Convergence and Open Sharing System (COSS) project in bio-health
Leaping Forward as an AI·BigData-based University
- 2022~
- Received an "A" in the Beyond Research Innovation and Development for Good Enterprises (BRIDGE+) project Selected for phase 3 of the Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation project (LINC 3.0) Selected for the Creative Convergence Engineering Talent Cultivation project Selected for the Intellectual Property Creation & Utilization project Opened the largest center for cancer in central Korea
Last Update Date 2023.05.23
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