By Kim Ji-young
On October 11, Ewha president Lee Bae-yong, Geyong-gi Provincial Governor Kim Moon-soo, and Paju City Major Yoo Hwa-seon signed a memorandum announcing a plan to build an Education and Research Complex at Paju in
The Education and Research Complex will include facilities for undergraduate students to learn foreign languages and institutions which will train students in women’s leadership. However, the complex will not be a second campus. All Ewha students will study at the Sinchon campus as usual. Students would go to the complex only when there are special occasions like special lectures or training sessions on leadership or foreign language. The complex will also include an industrial-educational cooperative research center, a dormitory for foreign professors, and a continuing education center for Ewha alumnae.
“I was looking for a proper place to establish a complex to raise global minded leaders near
The Education and Research Complex will be expected to cover an area of about 300,000 pyeong at its maximum including about 75,000 pyeong of land returned by the