Sangmyung University was first established as Sangmyung Academy for Higher Learning for the Young, The goal was to educate and produce national leaders in 1937 amid Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
Sooner after, Sangmyung Academy transitioned into Sangmyung Women’s College of Education (1965), Sangmyung Women’s University (1986), and reborn as Sangmyung University in 1996 by re-establishing itself into a co-educational institution.
The current system is designed to adapt to change and continually expand educational opportunities.
A whole view of Sangmyung University (Cheonan Campus)