Established in 1999, the Department of Special Education at Seoul National University introduced its first master’s program in 2000 and doctoral program in 2001. At present,  Special Education Department offers academic programs in and closely collaborates for its master’s and doctoral programs with the Department of Education at the College of Education, the Department of Social Work at the College of Social Sciences, and the Department of Psychology at the College of Social Sciences of Seoul National University. The main objective of the Department is to educate and cultivate the future leaders in the field of Special Education, inclusive of educational and professional development for the Special Education faculties domestic and abroad, in order to enrich the true spectrum of the field of Special Education at both national and global level for its advancement.

This program is designed to promote professionals in environmental education at the master’s and doctoral level. Experts from various disciplines such as geography, environment planning, ecology, physics and earth science play both roles as distinguished specialists and as adjunct professors in this program. Since the very first freshmen accepted in 1999, graduate students in this program have continued to spare no effort to build qualifications required to be environmental educators by raising their capacities based on academic training and research. Master’s and doctoral degree recipients are produced constantly at the present time.

Our programs promote understanding of the arts and visual culture for all students through a curriculum that is research-based, interdisciplinary, and intent on collaboration with communities both within and outside the University, nation, and world. This content is explored through the following: pedagogical theory and practices; critical inquiry of historical and contemporary artworks; the analysis of public and educational policy in the arts and cultures; assessment of art education; awareness of comparative international practice; and inquiry in the philosophical, historical, and policy foundations of art education and cultural policy.

Home Economics, otherwise known as household management education or family and consumer science, is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community. Home economics teaches students how to properly run a family environment and make the world a better place for generations to come.
The mission of the Department of Home Economics Education is to foster ethical and independent individuals, and to play a major role in supporting young people to participate effectively in changing social, cultural and economic times.
In order to capitalize on this potential, the Department of Home Economics Education offers curriculum that uses contemporary educational research as a guide to influence and develop policy to advocate for individuals, families and communities to achieve empowerment and wellbeing, to utilize transformative practices, and to facilitate sustainable futures.
Our academic discipline is to educate new scholars, to conduct research and to create new knowledge and ways of thinking for professionals and for society. Students will discover and further develop their own resources and capabilities to be used in their personal life, by directing their professional decisions and actions or preparing them for life, in the arena of Home Economics and Education are closely connected.
Our graduates have their careers in school teaching, school education specialist and make their way to a further research in graduate school. For future students, researchers in Home Economics or Home Economics Education, incumbent school teachers who have abundant experience and critical mind are encouraged are preferred.

The interdisciplinary early childhood education program was founded in 2005 in order to figure out the current issues of early childhood education in South Korea via the acquisition of professional knowledge of theory and practice and of development of research capabilities and to train professional researchers who will contribute to the improvement in the quality and practice of early childhood education. The program has offered the curriculum that links the theoretical research to the field. In particular, professional early childhood researchers in this program have been observing preschools and kindergartens in the world.
In order to follow the contemporary issues of early childhood education, our program has been periodically holding interdisciplinary seminars and symposiums with professionals in many diverse fields. Researchers in this program have been holding conferences in South Korea and attending international conferences in the world. In addition, our program seeks interdisciplinary research via discussions with diverse faculty members in our program. Based on interdisciplinary research, our researchers have been willing to conduct research to achieve the development of early childhood education in South Korea.