Talents Leading the 21st Century with Intellect-Sensibility Integrative Thinking

Welcome and thank you for visiting the homepage of the College of Human Ecology at Yonsei University. Our College has been playing a leading role in promoting important social values for the last half century through its history, tradition and vision. Through education and research in human ecology, a practical discipline which contributes to qualitative improvements in our living environment through human-centric ecological perspectives, we are striving to cultivate talent and advance academics in Clothing & Textiles, Food & Nutrition, Housing & Interior Design, Child & Family Studies and Human Environment & Design.

Students who enter the College of Human Ecology acquire not only professional knowledge, but also wide-ranging information that can activate creative thinking and action through in-depth teaching from professors who are leaders in their respective areas of specialization in Korea, through industry-academic collaborative studies, and through the mentoring of seniors. We firmly believe that ours students will grow into balanced global leaders at the forefront of a new age of integrative knowledge.

We encourage students to develop their key strengths and foster their social capacity at the College of Human Ecology, based in Yonsei University's excellent educational environment, and to learn the qualities and virtues required of leaders who combine rationality with intelligence, sensibility, and passion in order to lead in the 21st century. May your treasured dreams become a reality, and may you become the best professionals in your respective disciplines who plant Yonsei's spirit of truth and freedom all around the world.

Young In Kim, Dean
College of Human Ecology