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01 ODE in ESTABLISHMENT

Korea: Korea Although higher education through distance
learning has been developing in the West for
National Open over 100 years, it has only been developed
in Korea over a short period of time. In 1972,
University Korea National Open University (KNOU)
was first launched as the Department of
Telecommunications affiliated with Seoul
National University as a Type 2 college. Ten
years later, KNOU was separated from Seoul
National University and became a Type 5
Ko Songhwan college that runs an independent program.

Korea National Open University KNOU is the first national open university
in Korea. It was established by the Ministry
of Education in 1972 as a solution for
providing higher education and responding
to great demand in society. Ever since, many
other distance education institutions being
founded and operated including the cyber
universities. As of June 2020, there was a
total of 21 cyber universities in Korea. The
number of cyber universities has expanded
including a total of 16 special cyber graduate
schools that had been opened in nine other