Busan University of Foreign Studies


Busan University of Foreign Studies, often shortened to 부산외대 and BUFS, romanized as Pusan University of Foreign Studies before 2011, is a private university in Busan, Republic of Korea, which specializes in foreign languages.

History

Busan University of Foreign Studies was founded in 1981 by the late Chung Tae-sung. His philosophy for education was that young intellectual minds must become leaders internationally. Busan University of Foreign Studies was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in April 1982 with its first students studying English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German, Indonesian, Malay, and Thai. Through the 1980s, the college expanded its programs and finally became a university in 1991., Busan University of Foreign Studies has academic exchange program agreements with 94 universities in 24 countries.

Courses

BUFS consists of 7 colleges, four graduate school programs, and nine research institutes. The language portion of the school is structured in three of the colleges: College of English, Japanese, and Chinese, College of Occidental Studies, and College of Oriental Studies. Other Western languages that the university offers are Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. Eastern languages in addition to Japanese and Chinese include Vietnamese, Burmese, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, and Uzbek.
The university also provides programs of study in international studies, Korean language and literature, international law, international business, and IT.

Colleges

In 2014, following the completion of a new campus on the slope of Mount Geumjeongsan, the university's campus migrated out of Uam-dong into its new campus in Namsan-dong.
The new campus stands out from other universities in Busan due to its clean modern design that is partly inspired by ancient Greek monuments.

Notable people