Hongik University

Hongik University is a private university in Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946 and known above all for fine art, design and architecture, a reputation built by graduates who now run studios, museums and art schools across Asia.弘益大学是位于韩国首尔麻浦区的私立大学，创办于 1946 年，以美术、设计与建筑学科最为知名，这一声誉由如今在亚洲各地主持工作室、美术馆与艺术院校的毕业生积累而成。

It teaches about 18,100 undergraduates and 3,498 graduate students in 16 colleges and 78 departments, with a second campus in Sejong City that opened in 1987 and a dedicated games college that few Korean universities can match.该校设有 16 个学院、78 个学系，在校本科生约 18100 人、硕博研究生 3498 人，并于 1987 年启用世宗市第二校区，还拥有韩国少有高校能比的独立游戏学院。

The university gives its name to the surrounding Hongdae district, and it holds the 1401+ band in the QS World University Rankings 2027.校名成为周边「弘大」街区的名称来源，学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间。

History

• The university was founded on 27 June 1946, shortly after Korean independence, by leaders of the Daejongkyo religious order who had returned from years of exile in China and who saw education as the fastest way to rebuild a nation emerging from colonial rule.该校于 1946 年 6 月 27 日、韩国光复后不久创办，创办者是结束多年中国流亡生涯归国的大倧教领袖，他们把教育视为重建摆脱殖民统治之国的最快途径。
• Its first name was Hongmoon-daehakgwan, literally the Hongmoon college hall, and the initial funds came from Lee Hung Soo, a wealthy independence activist.学校最初名为「弘文大学馆」，开办经费来自富有的独立运动人士李兴洙的捐赠。
• In 1947 the school was renamed Hongik University Hall, taking the phrase hongik, meaning to broadly benefit humanity, from the founding ideology of the order.1947 年学校更名为「弘益大学馆」，取「弘益」二字，意为广泛造福人间，语出该教团的建国理念。
• In August 1948 the Korean government formally approved Hongik University and the Hongik Foundation, giving the school legal status as a four-year institution, and the foundation has governed it ever since.1948 年 8 月，韩国政府正式批准弘益大学与弘益学园，学校由此取得四年制高等学府的法人地位，该学园至今仍是学校的举办者。
• During the Korean War the campus was moved south to Busan, and teaching returned to Seoul after the 1953 armistice.朝鲜战争期间学校南迁釜山，1953 年停战后才迁回首尔。
• In 1955 the university settled on its present site in Sangsu-dong, Mapo District, on the western side of central Seoul, then a peripheral district of low houses and small workshops.1955 年，学校定址于首尔中西部麻浦区上水洞的现址，当时这里还是低矮住宅与小作坊为主的城市边缘。
• A graduate school was added in 1958, opening master's-level study in an institution that had until then taught only undergraduates, and it now runs 52 master's departments and 34 doctoral departments.1958 年学校增设研究生院，在这所此前只办本科的学校里开启了硕士层次的教育，如今研究生院设有 52 个硕士系与 34 个博士系。
• In 1961 a government decree stripped the university down to a single fine arts faculty, and it was renamed Hongik Fine Arts College for the duration of that reform.1961 年的一项政府法令把学校压缩为单一的美术学院，校名也在此期间改为「弘益美术学院」。
• The old name was restored in 1962, and the fine arts faculty kept the prestige it had gained as the country's leading art school, which is why art remains the university's public identity.1962 年旧校名恢复，美术学院保住了其作为韩国领头艺术院校的声望，美术也因此至今仍是学校最鲜明的公共标识。
• The decisive change came in 1971, when Hongik absorbed the Capital Engineering College and was reorganised as a comprehensive university under its present name, adding engineering laboratories and a second faculty culture to what had been an art school.决定性变化发生在 1971 年，学校并入首都工学院，重组为综合性大学并定名「弘益大学」，由此在一所艺术院校里加入了工程实验室与另一种学院文化。
• A craft arts research institute, an evening division and a college of education were created in 1972, extending the curriculum beyond studio art.1972 年学校设立工艺美术研究所、夜学部和师范学院，把课程从纯美术扩展到更多领域。
• In 1977 Hongik founded five attached schools, an elementary school, a middle school, a high school and two girls' schools, and placed them under the College of Education.1977 年学校创办附属小学、初中、高中与两所女子学校共五所学校，并交由师范学院管理。
• Between 1980 and 1982 the university added a college of humanities, an environmental science institute and an education institute as enrolment grew, and the humanities college became home to the language and literature departments.1980 至 1982 年间，随着招生规模扩大，学校先后增设文学院、环境科学研究所与教育研究所，文学院此后一直是语言文学各系的归口。
• The humanities building, the computer centre and the gymnasium were completed in 1983 and 1985, the first wave of large-scale construction on the Mapo campus.文科大楼、计算机中心与体育馆于 1983 年和 1985 年相继落成，这是麻浦校区第一轮大规模建设。
• Between 1986 and 1989 the university added a college of law and business, folded printmaking and graphic design into the fine arts college, and opened an industrial college with eleven departments.1986 至 1989 年间，学校增设法商学院，把版画与平面设计并入美术学院，并开办拥有 11 个学系的产业学院。
• In 1987 the Sejong campus opened on a 151,250 square metre site in Yeongi, South Chungcheong Province, now part of Sejong City, and planned from the start with separate zones for studios, laboratories and dormitories.1987 年世宗校区在忠清南道燕岐郡一块 151250 平方米的用地上启用，该地现属世宗特别自治市，规划之初就分设工作室、实验室与宿舍区。
• Two six-storey dormitories were built in 1988 and 1989, giving the Seoul campus its first substantial residential capacity at a time when few private art schools offered housing.1988 年与 1989 年，学校建成两栋六层学生宿舍，首尔校区由此首次具备可观的住宿容量，当时少有私立艺术院校能提供宿舍。
• The early 1990s brought a radio science and communication engineering department, a tax research institute and a reorganisation of the Sejong campus into separate science and visual arts colleges.1990 年代初，学校设立无线电科学与通信工程学系与税务研究所，并把世宗校区的产业科学学院拆分为科学技术学院与视觉艺术学院。
• The foreign language education institute opened in 1997, was renamed the International Language Education Institute in 2001, and in 1998 Hongik created Korea's first college of advertising and public relations.外国语教育院于 1997 年设立，2001 年更名为国际语言教育院，1998 年学校又创办韩国第一个广告与公共关系学院。
• In 2002 the university opened its Daehangno art centre and the Mallipo marine research institute in Taean, and the Gyeongseong Foundation was merged into the Hongik Foundation.2002 年学校启用大学路艺术中心与泰安万里浦海洋研究院，庆星学园也在同年并入弘益学园。
• A graduate school of film and digital media and the International Design School for Advanced Studies were added in 2004, followed by the College of Architecture in 2006, and the education ministry rated Hongik a characterised excellent university in 2004.2004 年学校增设电影与数字媒体研究院及国际设计专门研究院，2006 年成立建筑学院，同年教育部又把弘益评为特色化优秀大学。
• In 2005 Hongik signed training agreements with Samsung Electronics, the PACE international industry programme and Seoul Metro, tying design and engineering teaching to corporate employers.2005 年，学校与三星电子、国际产学合作计划 PACE 以及首尔地铁签订培养协议，把设计与工程教学直接对接企业雇主。
• In 2005 the Sejong campus gained the Hongik Art Hall, a venue for concerts, theatre and graduation ceremonies that became the cultural anchor of the new city.2005 年世宗校区建成弘益艺术厅，这座用于音乐会、戏剧与毕业典礼的场馆后来成为新城的文化支点。

Academics

• The university is organised into 16 undergraduate colleges and 78 departments, offering more than 300 undergraduate courses across art, design, engineering, humanities, business and law, with four of the colleges based in Sejong.学校设 16 个本科学院、78 个学系，在美术、设计、工程、人文、商学与法学等领域开设 300 多门本科课程，其中四个学院设在世宗校区。
• Postgraduate teaching is delivered through 13 graduate schools, including the general graduate school and specialised schools in architecture, business, education, fine arts and performing arts.研究生教育由 13 个研究生院承担，包括综合研究生院以及建筑、商学、教育、美术、演艺等专门研究生院。
• Institutional figures put enrolment at 18,100 undergraduates and 3,498 master's and doctoral students, with 1,487 faculty members, a ratio of roughly five undergraduates for every graduate student.校方数据显示，在校本科生 18100 人、硕博研究生 3498 人，专任教师 1487 人，本研比约为五比一。
• Of those faculty, 233 hold doctorates from universities abroad, a proportion the university presents as evidence of its international hiring policy.在这些教师中，有 233 人拥有海外大学博士学位，学校把这一比例视为其国际化招聘政策的证明。
• The College of Fine Arts remains the institutional core, teaching oriental painting, painting, printmaking, sculpture, metal art, ceramics and glass, woodworking and textile art.美术学院仍是学校的制度核心，教授东洋画、绘画、版画、雕塑、金属造型、陶瓷与玻璃、木工家具以及纤维美术。
• Its School of Design covers visual communication and industrial design, and it is the department most often cited when Hongik is described as Korea's leading design school.美术学院下的设计学部涵盖视觉传达与产业设计，也是弘益被称作韩国头号设计院校时最常被提及的系科。
• The College of Liberal Arts teaches Korean, German, French and English language and literature, a curriculum inherited from the school's early reliance on European art texts.文学院教授韩国语、德语、法语与英语的语言文学，这套课程继承自学校早期依赖欧洲美术文献的传统。
• The College of Engineering teaches civil and environmental, mechanical and system design, electronic and electrical, chemical and materials, industrial and data, and computer engineering.工学院教授土木与环境、机械与系统设计、电子与电气、化学与材料、产业与数据以及计算机工程。
• Architecture and urban planning are taught in a separate college that offers architecture, interior architecture and urban design and planning tracks, having been upgraded from a department to a college in 2006.建筑与城市规划设在独立学院，分建筑设计、室内建筑以及城市设计与规划三个方向，该学院于 2006 年由系升格为学院。
• The College of Education trains secondary teachers in education, Korean language education, mathematics education, history education and English language education.师范学院培养中学教师，分教育学、国语教育、数学教育、历史教育与英语教育五个专业。
• The Sejong campus hosts the College of Science and Technology, with architecture engineering, nanomaterials, naval architecture and ocean engineering, and software and communication engineering.世宗校区设有科学技术学院，涵盖建筑工程、纳米材料、船舶与海洋工程以及软件与通信工程。
• The College of Design Arts brings together design convergence, film and animation, performing arts, musical theatre and contemporary music.设计艺术学院整合设计融合、影视动画、表演艺术、音乐剧与当代音乐等专业。
• Business is taught in two colleges, one in Seoul and one in Sejong, with majors in international management, accounting and finance and insurance.商学教学分设首尔与世宗两个学院，专业包括国际经营、会计以及金融保险。
• A separate College of Games teaches game software and game graphic design, one of the earliest dedicated game faculties in Korea.独立的游戏学院教授游戏软件与游戏图形设计，是韩国最早设立的游戏专门学院之一。
• The International Design School for Advanced Studies, known as IDAS, runs master's and doctoral programmes for working designers from across Asia.国际设计专门研究院（IDAS）面向亚洲各地在职设计师开设硕士与博士课程。
• Hongik was selected for the BK21+ programme, the Korean government's scheme for funding graduate research, and it uses the label in its research recruitment.学校入选韩国政府资助研究生科研的「BK21+」计划，并在科研人才招聘中使用这一标签。
• Its art and design schools hold exchange agreements with 116 art universities in 29 countries, including the Royal College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design, and student exchanges date from 1989.其美术与设计学院与 29 个国家的 116 所艺术院校签有交流协议，包括英国皇家艺术学院与美国罗德岛设计学院，学生交换则始于 1989 年。
• Studio and workshop space is concentrated on the Mapo campus, while the Sejong campus carries the science, engineering and film production facilities.工作室与工坊空间集中在麻浦校区，理科、工科与影视制作设施则主要放在世宗校区。

Campus

• The Seoul campus occupies the slopes of Sangsu-dong in Mapo District, about five kilometres west of the historic centre and directly north of the Han River.首尔校区位于麻浦区上水洞的坡地上，距历史市中心约五公里，紧邻汉江北岸。
• Hongik University station, on Seoul Metro Line 2 and the Gyeongui-Jungang and Airport Railroad lines, is a five-minute walk from the main gate.地铁 2 号线、京义中央线与机场铁路交汇的弘大入口站，距学校正门步行约五分钟。
• The Sejong campus covers 1.3 million square metres and was planned as a low-density, greenfield campus for science, engineering and design arts, intended to relieve pressure on the crowded Seoul site.世宗校区占地 130 万平方米，按低密度、绿地新建校区的思路规划，主要承载理科、工科与设计艺术，用意在于缓解首尔校区的拥挤。
• Hongik Art Hall on the Sejong campus, completed in 2005, hosts concerts, theatre and the university's graduation ceremonies and is the campus's main indoor venue.世宗校区的弘益艺术厅于 2005 年建成，是校区主要的室内场馆，用于音乐会、戏剧演出与学校毕业典礼。
• The Daehangno centre in Jongno District houses IDAS and the Hongik Art Center, placing design postgraduate teaching in Seoul's theatre district.位于钟路区大学路的中心设有国际设计专门研究院与弘益艺术中心，把设计类研究生教学放进了首尔的戏剧街区。
• The Mallipo marine research institute in Taean, on the west coast, was established in 2002 as a field station for marine and environmental research.2002 年设立的泰安万里浦海洋研究院位于西海岸，是海洋与环境研究的野外站。
• A practice campus in Hwaseong, near Suwon, provides workshop space for fine arts students, including what the university describes as the country's largest mathematics laboratory building.位于水原附近华城的实习校区为美术学生提供工坊空间，校方称其中建有韩国规模最大的数理实验楼。
• The university lists about 600,000 square metres of buildings and facilities across its campuses, a figure that includes studios, laboratories and dormitories.学校各校区的建筑与设施合计约 60 万平方米，这一数字包括工作室、实验室与宿舍。
• The Mapo campus is compact and urban, with studio buildings set among residential lanes, so much of student work spills into the streets of Seogyo and Sangsu.麻浦校区紧凑而城市化，工作室楼就夹在住宅巷道之间，学生的许多创作因此溢出到西桥与上水的街道上。
• Hongik has no residential college system, and its two 1988-89 dormitories house only a small fraction of the 18,100 undergraduates.弘益没有住宿学院制，1988 至 1989 年建成的两栋宿舍只能容纳 18100 名本科生中的一小部分。

Reputation

• Hongik is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied final band shared by 102 institutions rather than a single position.弘益在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1401+ 区间，这是 102 所高校共享的末段并列档，而非单一具体名次。
• It does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, so it is absent from that table rather than ranked near the bottom.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，属于未上榜，而不是在榜内垫底。
• The university is listed as unranked in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027, meaning it appears in the pool but receives no numeric place.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，该校进入榜单但未获名次。
• Hongik is absent from the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which does not list it in its main table.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• In QS's Asian table Hongik ranked 191st in 2010 and 79th in 2013, the strongest regional positions the Seoul institution has recorded before the table expanded substantially.在 QS 亚洲大学排名中，这所首尔高校 2010 年位列第 191 名、2013 年升至第 79 名，这是榜单大幅扩容前该校取得的最好区域名次。
• The JoongAng Ilbo university ranking placed Hongik first in art and design among Korean universities in 2014.韩国《中央日报》大学评估在 2014 年把弘益的美术与设计学科列为全国第一。
• BusinessWeek named Hongik the best design school in Asia and Europe in October 2007 and the world's best design school in July 2008.美国《商业周刊》于 2007 年 10 月把弘益评为亚洲与欧洲最佳设计院校，2008 年 7 月又将其评为全球最佳设计院校。
• Its reputation rests on studio output rather than citation counts, and the university's own material stresses graduate placement in design and entertainment rather than journal metrics, and the absence of a medical school limits its position in citation-heavy global tables.该校的声誉建立在工作室成果而非引用指标之上，校方材料强调毕业生在设计业与娱乐业的去向，而非期刊计量，没有医学院这一点也限制了它在重视引用的全球榜单中的位置。
• Within Korea it is treated as the historic centre of art education, and a large share of the country's art and design professors trained there.在韩国国内，它被视为美术教育的历史中心，国内相当一部分美术与设计教授出自该校。

Student life

• The motto is Hongik Ingan, widely benefit humanity, a phrase taken from the Samguk Yusa and shared with the Daejongkyo order that founded the school.校训是「弘益人间」（Hongik Ingan），意为广泛造福人间，语出《三国遗事》，与创办学校的大倧教共享这一理念。
• Teaching is guided by three stated goals, autonomy, creativity and cooperation, which appear together on university signage and publications.教学以「自主」「创造」「协同」三大目标为指引，这三个词常一起出现在校园标识与出版物上。
• The surrounding Hongdae district is a youth culture quarter of clubs, small galleries, cafes, street fashion and busking, and it is inseparable from the university's public image, having grown up around the art school from the 1990s rather than the other way round.周边弘大街区是集俱乐部、小画廊、咖啡馆、街头时尚与卖艺于一体的青年文化区，与学校的公共形象密不可分，它是 1990 年代以来围绕这所艺术院校生长起来的，而不是相反。
• A street art exhibition has been held annually since 1993, organised by students who install sculpture, murals and video work in the streets around the campus, and it has grown into a public art season.自 1993 年起，学生每年在校园周边街道举办街头美术展，陈列雕塑、壁画与影像作品，这一活动后来发展为面向公众的艺术季。
• Club Day, launched in 2001, opens the district's clubs to a single ticket on the last Friday of each month and has become a signature Hongdae event.始于 2001 年的「俱乐部日」在每月最后一个周五以一张通票开放街区各俱乐部，已成为弘大的标志性活动。
• Because only a small minority can live in the two campus dormitories, most students rent rooms in Mapo, Seogyo and Hapjeong and commute on foot or by subway.由于只有少数学生能住进两栋校内宿舍，多数人在麻浦、西桥与合井一带租房，步行或乘地铁上学。
• The Sejong campus runs its own dormitories and shuttle buses, and its student life is quieter and more residential than the Seoul campus.世宗校区自设宿舍与班车，学生生活比首尔校区更安静、更偏住宿制。
• Hongik Art Hall and the Daehangno art centre give students regular performance and exhibition slots, tying coursework to public audiences.弘益艺术厅与大学路艺术中心为学生提供定期的演出与展览档期，把课程作业直接面向公众。

Notable people

• Lee Hung Soo, an independence activist and businessman, supplied the original funds in 1946, which is why the founding narrative credits him alongside the Daejongkyo leaders.独立运动人士与实业家李兴洙在 1946 年提供创办资金，因此校史叙事把他与大倧教领袖并列。
• Lee Bul, who studied sculpture and painting at Hongik, represented Korea at the 1999 Venice Biennale and is one of the country's best-known contemporary artists.在弘益学习雕塑与绘画的李昢曾代表韩国参加 1999 年威尼斯双年展，是韩国最知名的当代艺术家之一。
• Kimsooja, a Hongik painting graduate, represented Korea at the 2013 Venice Biennale and has installed her bottari works in museums worldwide.弘益绘画专业毕业生金守子代表韩国参加 2013 年威尼斯双年展，其「包袱」系列作品曾在世界各地美术馆展出。
• Park Seo-bo, the painter who helped define Korean dansaekhwa, studied at Hongik, taught a generation of monochrome painters and died in 2023 at the age of 91.推动韩国单色画（dansaekhwa）成形的画家朴栖甫求学于弘益，培养了整整一代单色画家，并于 2023 年去世，享年 91 岁。
• Ha Chong-hyun, another central dansaekhwa figure, is also a Hongik graduate and a former professor there.另一位单色画核心人物河钟贤同样是弘益校友，并曾任教于母校。
• Ahn Sang-soo, the typographer who designed the Ahn typeface in 1985, graduated from Hongik's design programme, taught visual design there from 1991 and served as a vice-president of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations.1985 年设计出「安体」的字体设计师安尚秀毕业于弘益设计专业，1991 年起在校教授视觉设计，并曾任国际平面设计协会联合会副主席。
• Kim Yong-won, a sculptor and Hongik professor, made the statue of King Sejong in Gwanghwamun Square and the aluminium sculpture outside Dongdaemun Design Plaza.雕塑家、弘益教授金永元创作了光化门广场的世宗大王铜像与东大门设计广场外的铝制雕塑。
• Lee Sang-hyun, a Hongik graduate, became chairman of Samsung China and president of Samsung Electronics for Greater China.弘益校友李相铉曾任三星中国总部董事长兼三星电子大中华区总裁。
• Kim Jong-deok, who studied visual design at Hongik, served as Korea's 48th minister of culture, sports and tourism.在弘益学习视觉设计的金钟德曾任韩国第 48 任文化体育观光部长官。
• Oh Hyuk, frontman of the band Hyukoh, studied art at Hongik, while rappers Loco, Gray and Woo Won-jae are also identified with the university.乐队 Hyukoh 主唱吴赫在弘益学习美术，说唱歌手 Loco、Gray 与禹元材也与该校关系密切。
• Saeju Jeong, co-founder of the weight-management app Noom, and SangYup Lee, an automotive designer who has worked for Hyundai and Kia, are both Hongik graduates.体重管理应用 Noom 的联合创始人郑世周与曾任职现代、起亚的汽车设计师李相烨，均为弘益毕业生。
• Chan-Jin Chung, a computer science graduate, founded Robofest, an international student robotics competition hosted by Lawrence Technological University in Michigan.计算机专业毕业生郑灿镇创办了国际学生机器人竞赛 Robofest，该赛事由密歇根州劳伦斯理工大学承办。