True scholarship begins and ends with a true attitude toward life. Since its foundation in 1914, SKHU has endeavored to cultivate a new type of human, one who can live together with others by realizing spirits of openness, sharing, and service, the university motto. This new type of human exceeds a lonely leader who, absorbed in his sense of superiority, excludes and ignores other humans. The above-mentioned university motto is indeed not only a good maxim to hear, but an important practical value everyone should pursue. All human thoughts and deep-hearted actions play their proper roles when they are wide open, and all property, knowledge, and talents demonstrate their full potentialities when they are shared. The essence of true scholarship lies in true humanity that respects even the smallest and the least, and is willing to serve others. I believe, this is no other than the true spirit of human beings, as well as the essential value of what a true scholar should be. The education and scholarship of our university has taken new challenges which other universities dare not take. The university of human rights and peace, the university of social welfare and social service, the university of specialized NGO programs and its educational reflection on civil society, these are the most representative slogans of the new challenges we boldly tackle. There is no university, domestically or abroad, that has established a systematic curriculum on NGO studies, except SungKongHoe University. As the pioneer educational institute that emphasizes the role of the third sector including NGOs, NPOs, and other civil organizations in the future, in supervising and counterchecking both the first sector, i.e., the government, and the second sector, i.e., the market and the business entrepreneurs, SKHU has made initiative efforts to cultivate NGO leadership, by providing students with a systematic construction of the philosophy, activities, and prospects of civil society organizations. Such efforts by the university were recognized by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources as "An Outstanding University in Educational Reform" and was selected as the primal institution that won several hundred thousand dollars of financial support from the government. Another challenge is met by the university's effort to establish a special organization of the curriculum, "IT(Information Technology) Overseas Education," aiming at cultivation of up-to-date knowledge and skills in information technology. This so-called 'India Windows IT Program' provides students with opportunities to immerse, for one year, in an intensive training course in Information Technology in India, a country with first-rate skills and accumulated knowledge in this field. This original program has drawn special attention from press and mass communication, other universities, and, especially, the Ministry of Information & Communication, and has been recognized and referred to as 'an ideal model of its kind' others should follow, not to mention getting financial support from the government. These examples are but two among many that incorporate the new challenges our university has taken. They, above all, demonstrate the vision of our university that, based on accurate knowledge of the necessities of our society, pursues future-oriented activities and so maintains a progressive philosophy by going forward to the future. SungKongHoe University is willing to be your partner, if you have dreams for a brighter future in which human rights and peace is fully guaranteed, and people together can 'make a forest' which provides safe shelters for the birds and ensures the security and growth of individual trees. Please come and join with us in our new challenges. Welcome, all of you, to our university!