Descripción
My main message will be quite simple. If Sogang University is a Jesuit and a
Catholic University, then it must be, in a special way, a servant and a witness of the joy of the Gospel—for its students, its faculty and staff, and for Korea and the world beyond. I am very aware that a university has a distinct identity; that is it not a parish or a seminary. But if a university is a Jesuit university, then, its teaching, research and outreach must somehow be linked to, aimed at spreading the joy of the Gospel—a joy that this suffering and violent world desperately needs. And Sogang can only do this if, besides being an excellent university
according to the standards of the rating agencies, it is also and perhaps primarily a community of wisdom and service. I would like to say a few words on each of those three words: first, wisdom, next service, finally community.