About this place
The Jesuit community at 35 Baekbeom-ro is registered in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory as the “Sogang University Community.” The address is on the Sogang University campus, and the community is distinct from Arrupe Community at another address in Sinsu-dong.
Sogang University is deeply connected with the educational apostolate of the Society of Jesus. The university foundation’s official chronology records the Jesuits’ preparations for the school, the acquisition of land in Sinsu-dong, and the opening of Sogang College in 1960. The Sogang University Community has a distinctive identity as the Jesuit community living within this field of educational ministry.
History & origins
The history of the Sogang University Community is connected with the establishment of the Jesuit educational apostolate in Sinsu-dong. According to the official chronology of the Sogang University Foundation, the Jesuits prepared to establish a university at the request of the Catholic Church in Korea and with papal approval, and purchased a campus site in Sinsu-dong, Mapo-gu, in 1957.
The main building was erected and an application for university authorization was submitted in 1959. In 1960, Sogang College received authorization and opened, subsequently developing within the Jesuit educational tradition.
Today, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory registers the Jesuit community at 35 Baekbeom-ro as the “Sogang University Community.” Because the public sources do not give a separate founding date for the community itself, 1960 is not asserted as its foundation date; rather, the university’s establishment is presented as the historical context in which the present community exists.
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