The latest news and top stories on Ewha Womans University, a South Korean private research university for women. Ewha is dedicated to nurture women leaders and advancing women's higher education. Founded in 1886 by the American missionary Mary F. Scranton, it is one of Asia's earliest and the world's largest female educational institutions, with a range of undergraduate and graduate programs across liberal arts sciences engineering and medicine. Ewha is South Korea's first accredited four-year university.