In 2012, U.S President Barack Obama, during his visit to Korea, spoke at Hankuk University in Seoul about global progress toward nuclear non-proliferation.

[2] Throughout its history, the university has been visited by numerous foreign dignitaries, including Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden,[3] Joko Widodo of Indonesia,[4] Viktor Orban of Hungary,[5] Abdullah Gul of Turkey,[6] Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of Mongolia,[7] Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland,[8] and many others.

[28] The program offers late afternoon and evening courses for working students who are unable to attend classes during the day.

It became the first Asian education institution to join CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d'Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes) in 2004.

GSIT is equipped with an international conference hall which provides for simultaneous interpretation services in eight different languages, lecture halls equipped with simultaneous interpretation booths, multimedia classrooms, group study rooms, a satellite broadcast resources center which provides access to 110 channels in 30 languages, a library, and a computer lab.

It also created in early 2010 a GSIAS-affiliated think-tank, named the Center for International Cooperation and Strategy (CICS), aimed at facilitating policy-relevant research activities and outreach programs.

In December 2010, CICS organized a high-level Korea-Middle East Forum in Cairo jointly with the Al-Ahram Institute for Strategic Studies and MOFAT.