The station is nearby Sungkyunkwan University and Dongnam Health College.

Five years later, on January 1, 1984, it was renamed Seongdae-ap Station (성대앞역/成大앞驛), taking its name as an abbreviated form of the nearby Sungkyunkwan University campus.

It was only on December 1, 1994 that it took its current full name of Sungkyunkwan University Station.

In 2008, Suwon City Council operated a 20-day public consultation on changing the name of the station once again.

Some southbound trains terminate at Byeongjeom, while the remainder continue to Cheonan or Sinchang.