Ewha Womans University was founded in 1886 as Ewha School and renamed Ewha Women's University in 1948. The name Pear Blossom is said to have been derived from the pear blossoms that bloom around the school.
For more than 100 years after its birth, the school only recruited female students, and trained 6 first ladies (8 presidents in total) and a large number of female politicians and female celebrities for South Korea after World War II.
In the international essay ranking of 750 universities around the world, Ewha Womans University ranked first among comprehensive universities in Korea for three consecutive years (2013-2015). In the top 1% essay ratio, the school ranks first in Korea, which is an authentic "strength" school!
《Campus Floor Plan》
The architecture of Ewha University is relatively primitive in general, and many ancient buildings are still preserved today, the most representative of which is the Welch-Ryang Auditorium at the entrance.
The famous sunken building, the Campus Center, is a multi-purpose building with a narrow walkway, which builds the modern campus center underground, mainly to make the modern and ancient buildings perfectly blend. The library is hidden in it.
A well-known alumnus of Ewha Womans University, Korean model and actress Kim So-hyun, born on January 25, 1985, graduated from the International Faculty of Ewha Womans University and participated in the Hollywood movie "Avengers 2".
Park Geun-hye "Girlfriend Gate" & Lian Pear Big Incident
Causes of events:
South Korean President Park Geun-hye's girlfriend choi Soon-sil, who has a daughter named Jung Woo-woo, is not a student but enrolled in Ewha Women's University as a horse racing student, so the school is suspected of opening a special case.
Girls at Ewha Women's University protested for more than ten days in protest against this policy. The 200 protesting girls did not budge in the face of thousands of security police.
- On October 19, 2016, Choi Kyung-hee, president of Ewha Women's University, resigned.
- In October 2016, in an interview with South Korea's JTBC television, Ko Yong-tae revealed that Choi Soon-sil's favorite thing to do was to revise the president's speech.
- On the morning of March 10, 2017, South Korea's Constitutional Court passed an impeachment case against President Park Geun-hye.
- On February 13, 2018, the Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, pronounced a first-instance judgment on Choi Soon-sil's alleged abuse of power and coercion, and Choi soon-sil was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 18 billion won.
- On April 6, 2018, Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and fined 18 billion won in the first instance of the case of cronies interfering in politics.
- On June 11, 2020, South Korea's Supreme Court pronounced a final judgment on Choe Soon-sil's suspected "cronies interfering in politics" such as accepting bribes, and Choi Soon-sil was sentenced to 18 years in prison and fined 20 billion won (about 120 million yuan), and on July 10, Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 20 years in prison for retrial of the government and bribery cases.
- On January 14, 2021, South Korea's Supreme Court issued a final ruling on the case of Park Geun-hye's cronies interfering in politics and accepting bribes, sentencing her to 20 years in prison, plus the previous election interference case sentence of 2 years, which added to Park Geun-hye's sentence of 22 years.
"Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil"
"Choi Soon-sil's Daughter Jeong Woo-woo"