Mokpo National University

The Mokpo University is located in Mokpo City, which is a key city in the southwestern region of the Korean Peninsula. The university campus is at the foothill of the Seungdal-Mountain - one of the most sacred mountains in our nation.

The principal educational goal of MNU is to foster talented students and give them the ability to contribute to the prosperity of the country and the whole of humanity by teaching them the academic theories and methodologies of the fields of study in which they chose to make a difference.

Due to our university's role as a key higher learning institution in Jeollanam province, we at Mokpo National University, feel motivated to help MNU grow into a competitive global university by pursuing international exchanges and partnerships with universities in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world. We also strive to cement our reputation as a university committed to research in a wide variety of fields.

MNU aims to lead regional development by fostering and producing regionally based global talents proficient in both theory and practice. Our efforts are devoted to developing human resources with strong leadership abilities to lead communities and society according to our educational philosophy ideals of creation, integrity and service.

Mokpo National University is striving to play its part in the knowledge era by disseminating knowledge and information and by establishing new programs of study and initiating faculty and student exchanges with other prestigious universities in the world.

MNU’s Institute of International Exchange and Education is involved in developing a variety of versatile and practical foreign language education programs. Our continual cooperation with overseas universities results in high quality programs that prepare our students to play leading roles in international society by instilling them with values relevant to success in the modern age.

The Institute of International Exchange and Education incorporates a pleasant classroom environment with excellent instructors, access to an audio visual library and multimedia equipment, to offer the best education possible. To further satisfy the students’ and public’s hunger for foreign language education, a state of the art international conference room is being created. We are confident with high expectations and active support for foreign language and culture education, students will be ready for the globalized tomorrow.

In addition, to place Mokpo National University in the forefront of international education we offer comprehensive Korean language and cultural education courses to capable foreign students . It is our goal to ensure that while MNU reaches to the world through its foreign language initiatives, the world’s interest in Korea and Korean language is also satisfied.