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1. Chinese Language and Literature
The Department of Chinese Language and Literature of the Graduate School of Kyung Hee University aims to “create a cultural world” by promoting academic education and research, democratic virtue, construction of cultural welfare society, and necessary human capitals. Moreover, towards this end, the University strives to realize its education program to be scientific, harmonious, democratic, and universal. To effectively fulfill the above educational principles and goals, the Department has founded its own educational objectives: (1) in-depth academic research of Chinese language and literature, (2) daily use of the Chinese language, and (3) nurturing leaders with good training in Chinese language and literature. These objectives are founded on the University goals of global academic competitiveness and the foundation of the Graduate School. Thus, the Department focuses on the continuity of training from the undergraduate to the graduate levels while maintaining a research-oriented graduate school of distinction.

2. Japanese Language and Literature
The Department of Japanese Language and Literature of the Graduate School of Kyung Hee University focuses on the acquisition of knowledge related to the Japanese language and to Japanese literature. It has three major fields of study. The primary objective of education is to help students achieve a good command of the Japanese language, literature and the vast cultural phenomena of Japan. We focus our education on enhancing students professional sensibility not only of the Japanese language itself, but also of Japanese cultural phenomena and literature, so that they can be specialists in Japanese language and literature. We aspire in our education for our students to have a deeper sense of linguistic and literature developments in connection with the major political and social events in history, dealing with the areas of Japanese linguistics, Japanese fiction, film Studies, Japanese studies, etc. With this knowledge, our students will be well equipped to serve as professionals such as professors in linguistics, cultural studies, Japanese studies, or Japanese literature.