# About Yonsei

**Source**: https://www.yonsei.ac.kr/en_sc/1773/subview.do
**Parent**: https://www.yonsei.ac.kr/en_sc/2252/subview.do

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1885~1917

- [1885~1917](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','38');)
- [1918~1956](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','39');)
- [1957~1979](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','40');)
- [1980~1992](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','41');)
- [1993~2005](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','42');)
- [2006-Present](javascript:jf_hist_list('en_sc','8','43');)

YONSEI HISTORY
1885~1917

**1885**

**04.
01.**

Gwanghyewon, Korea’s first modern hospital, was founded as a royal hospital

**04.
23.**

Gwanghyewon, renamed as Chejungwon

**1886**

**03.
29.**

Chejungwon opened the first medical school in Korea and accepted their first 16 students.

**1893**

**07.
16.**

Dr. O. R. Avison became the head of Chejungwon

**1894**

Management of Chejungwon was transferred to the American North Presbyterian Missionary Church.

**1899**

**04.**

Dr. O.R. Avison opens Severance Union Medical College and Hospital

**1904**

**09.
03.**

Through a donation from Mr. L. H. Severance, the hospital was reconstructed and the medical education institution was finalized.

**1908**

**06.**

The first seven graduates received the first doctors’ licenses issued by the Korean government

**1909**

**07.**

Chejungwon Medical School renamed Severance Medical College

**1910**

**06.
01.**

The nursing school within the Severance Hospital which was run as a professional institute to train outstanding nurses produced the first nurses in Korea

**1913**

6 denominations including the North Presbyterian Church, North Methodist Church and the Canadian Presbyterian Church joined together and renamed the school‘Private Severance Union Medical School.

**1915**

**04.
12.**

Chosun Christian College established; first classes held at YMCA, first president Dr. H.G. Underwood, vice-presidentDr. O. R. Avison,

**1916**

**12.**

Dr. O. R. Avison was appointed the 2nd President of the Chosun Christian College.

**1917**

**04.
07.**

Chosun Christian College accredited as "Private Yonhi College."\
"Severance Union Medical College" (Humanities, Mathematics and Physics, Business, Agriculture and Theology) newly accredited.

**05.
14.**

The school developed into the Severance Union Medical College Foundation.

**09.**

The current location of the main campus was purchased in 1917 through a generous donation from Mr. John T. Underwood