LinguaExpress? LinguaExpress was launched for the first time in 1967 under the name Language Laboratary which played only a supportive role for language-related departments. After it was changed to The International Center for Language Education (ICLE) and expanded to an institute which designed and executed all its own programs, it offered a wide variety of language courses including KFL (Korean as a Foreign Language) courses. All the courses were outstanding especially in combining the four skill areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition to the expansion of language programs, the Center also created a testing tool, the MATE (Multimedia-Assisted Testing of English), for evaluating English learners' speaking and writing skills. As the name suggests, The MATE is conducted on the computer, and testees are supposed to speak and write out the tasks given on the computer. This tool is unprecedented, both domestically and internationally, in terms of its effective application of technology as well as its comprehensive and cross-checking evaluation of one's speaking and writing ability. All the students of Sookmyung Women's University are required to pass the test for graduation. The ICLE was reborn under the name of LinguaExpress, The International Institute of Language Education (IILE), on the 1st of July, 2000. LinguaExpress was named to mean that Sookmyung Women's University provides a royal road to mastering a language. Two goals of education One goal of education adopted by LinguaExpress is to make all the learners be able to use the language they learn in real life situations. To achieve this goal, among other things, LinguaExpress immerses all the learners in an environment where they have to speak the language they learn for whatever purposes including asking for information. So, well-seasoned in LinguaExpress programs, learners can develop thinking skills as well as general linguistic skills. As a result that they feel at home using the language and they learn to achieve life-based goals of communication. The other goal is that LinguaExpress combines language and culture so that the learners use the language they learn in a functionally and socially appropriate manner. So, LinguaExpress customers have many opportunities to be exposed to a wide assortment of cultural activities or events, and they are always guided to learn to live in an environment where they have to socialize all in the language they use.