Partnering with Private Corporations to Build on Campus: Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Yonsei University (Yonsei) is the nation’s largest and oldest private educational institution; it serves approximately 47,000 university people on a 250-acre campus in Seoul, Korea.1 While the daily “commuter-shed” of the university has expanded as far as thirty kilometers, well beyond the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) edge, since its founding in 1885, Yonsei’s internal campus, consisting of 119 buildings, has continued to redefine its functional boundaries with its neighborhood.