TEMPLE AND KOREAÃS HANYANG UNIVERSITY SIGN AGREEMENT
SEOUL -- Despite continuing student unrest, officials of Temple University and Hanyang University signed a historic agreement today (Wednesday, June 4) that establishes a Temple Executive MBA program and sets the stage for a broad range of cooperative educational efforts
Temple President Peter J. Liacouras and Hanyang President Chong Yang Kim signed the agreement during a ceremony in the Hotel President. That event followed a visit Liacouras and a Temple delegation made to Hanyang earlier in the day to visit the schoolÃs founder and chairman, Dr. Lyum Joon Kim, father of the universityÃs current president.
The Hanyang agreement establishes for the first time TempleÃs relationship with one of KoreaÃs top-ranked universities. It also expands TempleÃs international presence. The University already has the largest and most successful American program in Japan, which just celebrated its 15th anniversary; a 30-year old campus in Rome, Italy; a campus in London, Great Britain; and educational programs in France, Germany, Greece, Israel, and other nations.
Under the memorandum of agreement, Temple will establish at Hanyang an Executive MBA program, through its School of Business and Management, by 1998.
It also calls for the establishment of a Corporate Education program for employees of companies doing business in Korea, as well as programs to teach English and the possibility of future educational programs.
In his remarks, Liacouras praised the Korean system of higher education and Hanyang, which has been called ìthe M.I.T. of Korea.î He said the agreement ìopens a new relationship between two great universities.
Founded in 1939 , Hanyang now has some 27,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, two hospitals, and campuses in Seoul and Ansan.
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June 4, 1997
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