Hanyang University (President Kim Woo-Seung) and Hangeul and Computer Group (Chairman Kim Sang-cheol, hereinafter "Hancom Group") join hands to facilitate humanities. Hanyang University and Hancom Group signed a business agreement to establish the “Hancom-Hanyang Humanities Facilitation Center” at Cheongrium in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggido in the afternoon of August 11. Major officials, including Hancom Group Chairman Kim Sang-cheol and Hanyang Universtiy President Kim Woo-Seung, attended the signing ceremony.

Under the agreement, Hancom Group will donate the humanities facilitation fund to Hanyang University to support humanities research and academic activities. In accordance with this agreement, Hanyang University will establish Research Institute for Humanities Facilitation at the Seoul Campus and Research Institute for Applied Humanities at the ERICA Campus.

With this agreement, Hanyang University and Hancom Group are planning to facilitate industry-academic cooperation in various fields by seeking innovative technologies and services that combine humanities and future technologies and priotizing AI joint research projects.

At the signing ceremony, the Chairman of Hancom Group Kim Sang-cheol said, “Hancom Group decided to proceed industry-university cooperation focused on humanities convergence research for the first time in Korea aiming at technological innovation through the convergence of IT technology and humanities. We wish to contribute to fostering creative talents and creating new IT technologies with humanistic value through their ideas by actively supporting research and academic activity.

President Kim Woo-Seung said, “Humanities is an important study that improves the essential skills such as creativity, communication skills, and critical thinking which are essential for talents in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We will develop Korea’s best Humanities Promotion Center with Hancom Group to foster more talents in the future."