Chuncheon National University of Education
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Chuncheon National University of Education is one of several national universities of education in South Korea
. It provides training to future educators, primarily those bound for the primary level of the country's public education system. The campus is located in Chuncheon
City, the capital of Gangwon
province in the country's northeast. In 2004, 2,148 undergraduate students were enrolled, along with 531 graduate students. The current president is Shim Woo-yeop.
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. It provides training to future educators, primarily those bound for the primary level of the country's public education system. The campus is located in Chuncheon
Chuncheon
Chuncheon is the capital of Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city lies in the northeast of the country, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River. There are some large lakes around the city, most notably Lake Soyang and Lake Uiam...
City, the capital of Gangwon
Gangwon-do (South Korea)
Gangwon-do is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon. Before the division of Korea in 1945, Gangwon and its North Korean neighbour Kangwŏn formed a single province.-History:...
province in the country's northeast. In 2004, 2,148 undergraduate students were enrolled, along with 531 graduate students. The current president is Shim Woo-yeop.
Academics
The school's various academic departments offer focused instruction in each of the main content areas of the public-school curriculum. In addition, the graduate school offers Master's degrees in each of these fields.History
The school was founded in 1939 as "Chuncheon Normal School" (춘천사범학교). It was redesignated as a two-year teacher's college in 1962, and became a four-year college in 1983. It gained university status in 1993, and opened its graduate school in 1996.See also
- List of colleges and universities in South Korea
- List of Korea-related topics
- Education in South KoreaEducation in South KoreaEducation in South Korea is viewed as being crucial for success and competition is consequently very heated and fierce. A centralized administration oversees the process for the education of children from kindergarten to the third and final year of high school. Mathematics, science, Korean, social...