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Sungshin Women's University (Korean: 성신여자대학교; RR: Seongsin Yeoja Daehakgyo) is a private women's university located in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It was founded by Dr. Sook-Chong Lee in 1936. The university comprises ten colleges and five graduate schools, with total enrollment of about 12,000 students.
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성신여자대학교 | |
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| Motto | Sincerity, Intelligence, Independence |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1936 |
| Founder | Dr. Sook-Chong Lee |
| President | Seung Keun Yi, Ph.D. |
Administrative staff | 682 |
| Students | 13,000 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban, 30.5 acres (12.3 ha) |
| Website | http://www.sungshin.ac.kr/ |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 성신여자대학교 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Seongsin Yeoja Daehakgyo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏngsin Yŏja Taehakkyo |
Sungshin Women's University comprises 45 departments in ten colleges, and five graduate schools. The university also offers 5-year combined Bachelors-Masters program.
Sungshin has established a second campus in Seoul. The 54,200 m2 Woonjung Green Campus is within 5 kilometers of the Soojung Campus and makes Sungshin the only university with two campuses in Seoul.
The Woonjung Green Campus, with three college buildings and one shared facilities building opened in March 2010 and houses four colleges: College of Natural Sciences, College of Human Ecology, College of Nursing, and College of Convergence Culture and Arts. Woonjung Green Campus.
Sungshin Women's University is located at a transportation hub, with both campuses near major subway stations. The north-running Ui-Sinseol Rapid Transit Light metro line opened in 2017 and connected to 
Sungshin Women's University has run a Reserve Officers' Training Corps programme for women who want to be recruited as service members by the Ministry of National Defense since 2011.[4] Similar programmes are run by Sookmyung Women's University and Ewha Womans University; these three women's universities saw a total of 90 students join the programme in 2016.[5]
Shim Hwa-jin, the granddaughter of founder Li Suk-jong, served as the university's president from 2007 for two terms. When she was once more elected as president for a third term, which would extend her incumbency to 2019, four members of the university's student association raised concerns that Shim had embezzled funds from the school, which led to their suspension in January 2016. The students successfully pursued a court case to have the suspension overturned, and it was struck down in October.[6] Meanwhile, investigative journalists found that a prominent individual's daughter had been admitted to Sungshin after cheating in the assessment,[7] while one of Shim's relatives had also been appointed as a tenure-track lecturer using a plagiarised dissertation.[8]
Charges of embezzlement were brought against Shim and, on 7 February 2017, the Seoul Northern District Court returned a guilty verdict, concluding that Shim had embezzled 378 million won from school funds.[1] She was demoted from her position as president and served nine days in prison before posting bail of 50 million won on 20 February.[9] She was succeeded as president of Sungshin Women's University by Kim Ho-sung.[2]
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