The Yonkang Memorial Hall at Seoul National University, which was constructed with a donation by Founding Chairman Too Pyung Park of Doosan Group, will be reconstructed as the Doosan Humanities Hall, marking the 100th anniversary of the late Chairman.

Doosan (Chairman Y.H. Park) announced on November 30 that it had signed an agreement to donate US$ 4 Million in the form of an SNU Development Fund to the university to support the construction of the Doosan Humanities Hall. In attendance at the event held at a conference hall in the university’s administrative building were Yeon-cheon Oh, the president of the university, and Chairman Y.H. Park of Doosan.

The donation will be used to reconstruct the Yonkang Memorial Hall (Humanities College Building 8), which was named after the pen-name of Doosan’s founding Chairman, the late Too Pyung Park. The Yonkang Memorial Hall was constructed in 1974 with part of a donation made to the university by Chairman Park, who served as the chairman of its alumni association.

The Doosan Humanities Hall will comprise house lecture rooms, faculty offices, and seminar rooms covering a total floor space of 3,530m². One of the lecture rooms will be named the “Yonkang Lecture Hall” to honor Doosan’s founding chairman. Once the design work has been completed, ground will be broken to construct the building next year.

During the signing ceremony, Chairman Y.H. Park said, “I am very pleased to donate the Yonkang Memorial Hall anew as the Doosan Humanities Hall through its reconstruction this year, which marks the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth,” adding, “I hope that students will grow to become leaders of the figure at this building.”

President Oh said, “I hope that this will mark a small step toward the cultivation of human resources in basic research coupled with a leap for humanities studies, and the galvanization of basic liberal arts studies. For its part, Seoul National University will redouble its efforts in this regard.”