The ERICA (Education Research Industry Cluster at Ansan) campus is located in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, approximately 40 km south of Seoul. In 1953, Hanyang University was authorized as a graduate school by the Ministry of Education. Even during their refuge, the College fostered numerous competent science teachers by building a training center for secondary school teachers in the technical fields.
However, classes were continued in Busan with temporary teachers. ĭuring the Korean War, many of the school's facilities were destroyed and the professors and students were scattered. Six engineering sub-departments were set up, as well as a secondary school. In July 1948, the school was accredited as the first four-year engineering college in Korea with Kim Lyun-joon as the first dean. The board of trustees at that time included Myowook Lee, Byeongok Cho, Kwansoo Baik, Wonchul Lee, Waljoon Kim, Taeyong Choi, and Lyunjoon Kim, who had led the nation's independence movement. Kim Lyun-joon foresaw the importance of industrial advancement in the reconstruction of Korea and established Hanyang University as a judicial and academic body. Upon the restoration of the nation's independence in August 1945, Dong-A Institute renamed itself the Engineering Institute for National Foundation. This resulted in a temporary shutdown of the school on March 15, 1944, when the last 78 students graduated.
In 1943, with Korea still under Japanese occupation, the Institute was suspended from recruiting new students.
In May 1941, the Institute relocated and offered education specializing in engineering and technology to 100 students who had finished secondary school. After producing its first graduates in 1941, Dong-A tried to elevate itself to college status, to no avail. Dong-A Institute started with 630 students and 35 faculty in Jongno District, Seoul. Hanyang University was founded as Dong-A Engineering Institute on July 1, 1939, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.