POSTECH was founded in 1986 at a time when the primary role of Korean universities was to educate and supply human resources to build the nation. Established as Korea’s first research university in Korea, POSTECH has grown into a world-class institution in an impressively short period of time with outstanding leaders who had an incredible foresight, strong support from POSCO and its subsidiaries, and extraordinary passion from our members. The World Bank has even issued a special report on POSTECH’s rapid growth.