The founding spirit of Hanyang University is to educate and train students to understand and to love one another, based upon virtues of diligence, honesty, humility and service, to heighten the noble spirit of learning, and to become men and women who work not only for themselves but also for the nation and its people, and further, for all mankind.Hanyang’s founding principle adheres to Article 2 of South Korea’s Framework Act on Education, which is the nation’s traditional philosophy of Hongik Ingan—the universal welfare of mankind. The university not only fosters sophisticated skills for independent thinking and groundbreaking research, but to cultivate leaders whose outstanding abilities are matched with strength of character.