On July 16th, 2009, a group of delegates from Hannam University of Korea visited Chancellor MIZUTA Noriko at the Tokyo campus in Kioicho. The group consisted of Hannam University Chancellor Kim Hyung Tae, Lee Byung Chul, President of Foreign Affairs and Professor of Nano and Biochemical Engineering, Oh Ju Won, President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Architectural Systems Engineering, and In Mi Dong of the International Exchange Committee. Chancellor Kim and Chancellor MIZUTA carried out the signing of an academic exchange agreement.

Hannam University is a Christian University established in 1956 in the city of Daejeon, it has the departments of education, literature, law, commerce, engineering, social sciences, art, biology, and nanotechnlogy where about 18,000 students enroll.

This official signing, made through pleasant and friendly discussions, initiates a departmental dual degree system as well as joint research activities and exchanges between the graduate schools. Following their tour of the Kioicho campus, the delegates visited the Togane campus and the Makuhari campus. Josai International University, which has expanded across the Tokyo Metropolitan area, is Hannam University’s first partner university from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. In this regard, the two institutions look forward to more friendly exchanges in various areas in near future.