Founded after the nation's liberation from the Janpanese colonial rule, Seoul National University has represented the passion for learning and the endeavor to answer to the nation's questions, thus setting forth the intellectual and academic basic to overcome the turmoil, after the Korean War, and has established itself as indisputably the most distinguished institution of higer education and research in the nation.

In the 1960's, the plan for reorganization of the university was launched, and Seoul National University was relocated to the present Kwanak campus in 1975 with full features of a multiversity .Since the 1980's , the university has been striving to develop into a world-class university geared toward postgraduate studies as the, "University of intellectual pursuit, of the people, of the world".

With the coming 21st century in view, Seoul National University is now intending a grand leap under the motto of, "Forward further with our people, for the cause of the unification and development of the nation and, ultimately, the prosperity of humankind.