Inha University is a private, co-educational, doctoral granting university located in Incheon, South Korea. It's now owned by Hanjin Group. Inha University was established by the first president of South Korea, Syngman Rhee. It is a Korean-American collaboration school, even in its name: the Morpheme "In" (인 , 仁) comes from the city of Incheon and "Ha" comes from Hawaii, USA. At first time, it started as a technical college, named Inha Institute of Technology (IIT). Currently, Inha is ranked 10th nationwide, and especially 4th in Engineering and Science, by JoongAng Ilbo's annual ranking of South Korean universities. Inha is a member of GU8. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean War, the first President of Korea, Dr. Seung Man Rhee proposed the foundation of an educational institute that would provide expertise and hope to a lagging industrial sector. The driving force behind the proposal was the will and determination of a group of Koreans who had emigrated to Hawaii 50 years earlier. Financial resources for the foundation came from the proceeds of the sale of the Korea Christian Institute, an organization founded and managed by Dr.