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The University's modern Natural Sciences Campus has been operational since 1978. Situated within forty minutes' drive from central Seoul, the 250-acre campus offers a diversity of facilities with educational and research equipment for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Science and Technology, Sport Science, Pharmacy, and Medicine. The management of the Natural Sciences Campus, although the campus is still growing, is considered a paragon of educational administration in Korea.
When the new campus was built, the idea of separating a campus was revolutionary in the Korean education world. Even today, the University is the only school in Korea that operates separate campuses by specialty. Some comprehensive universities located in big cities have tried to meet the need for expansion by founding a separate, usually smaller, school in the provinces. This "duplication system" has its limits by nature?ack of faculty, facilities, and funding.
Besides solving the problem of physical expansion, the separate campus system brought the University limitless opportunities for growth. Suwon is one of the cities which preserve the traditional beauty of the Chos¢¨on era, but it now also flourishes as a center for business, education and economic research, thanks to its proximity to major industrial complexes.
¢È In an effort to serve society by building a bridge between academia and the industrial sector, another initiative?he Science-Technology Park (STP)?s being implemented on campus. The University, industries in the surrounding area, and the government have joined hands in this tripartite project.