The United Graduate School of Theology (UGST), Yonsei University

The College of Theology & the United Graduate School of Theology (UGST) is a most prestigious Christian institution in South Korea. As part of Yonsei University’s continuing effort to increase a diversity in faculty, we are accepting applications fall any race, ethnicity, and gender without discrimination.

The College of Theology (COT), founded within Chosun Christian College in 1915, has played a critical role to breathe the Christian spirit into Yonsei’s education during its 100 years of history. As Korea’s first graduate school of theology, United Graduate School of Theology (UGST) was founded in 1964 under the auspices of the Theological Educational Fund of World Council of Churches, and has been playing a significant role to provide graduate-level theological education. It has contributed to the remarkable revival of the Korean Church by raising qualified church pastors. COT and UGST have also led the history of Korean Christianity through trans-denominational theology and outstanding academic achievements.

In 2013, the 10th Assembly of World Council of Churches held in Busan, Korea, was a historic turning point for the Korean Church. Thanks to its remarkable growth and heaven-sent calling, the Korean Church was highly recognized for its significance among the world Churches and was called to undertake the sacred role to serve the world.

World Church leaders have derived way from the history of Yonsei to serve Christian leaders in Global South in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, promising lands to be the new center of Christianity. As the first missionaries like Underwood fostered Korean society by nurturing new leaders, they are called to educate and cultivate Christian talents to be promising future leaders.

Likewise, the United Graduate School of Theology in Yonsei has educated outstanding leaders who have been leading the Korean Church. To cope with this sacred mission of the times, Global Institute of Theology (GIT) was established in 2015 in Incheon, South Korea. Under the goal of fostering global Christian leaders based on the theological and pastoral heritage of the Korean Church, a number of international students from various countries have been devoting themselves since 2015 to their Th.M. and Ph.D. studies at Yonsei International Campus (Songdo, Incheon), where Underwood and Appenzeller firstly landed in 1885.