"Since its foundation in 1995, Handong Global University, located in Pohang,
has made efforts to nurture global talents who meet the needs of the times through
its humanistic education based on honesty and
community service and education emphasizing creativity based
on the promotion of convergence between liberal arts and natural sciences."

Nurturing creative talents through disciplinary convergence, Handong Global University selects new students without dividing them into departments or majors. The university provides students with the opportunity to explore their choice of major and career by taking various basic classes in their freshman year, then helping them to choose their majors in their sophomore year based on aptitude and will. The university requires all students to have a double major, creating synergy effects through interdisciplinary education between related studies.

Handong Global University is nurturing global leaders by establishing the International Law School based on the U.S. law-system for the first time in Asia, forming partnerships with international organizations, including the UN, and expanding the ratio of foreign professors. For 20 years since its foundation, it has emphasized "honesty" through "conscientious exams without supervisors" and provided humanistic education by obligating all students to participate in community service.

As the outstanding education system of Handong Global University has become well known throughout the country, applications by excellent students are being continued not only from Seoul and metropolitan area but also from all around the country, contributing to the regional balance in nurturing talents. Furthermore, with its user-centered education and intensive education for the small number of selected students, the university has overcome the limitations of a local university and emerged as a successful model of a prestigious private institution.