Danwon High School ( Korean: 단원고등학교; Hanja: 檀園高等學校) is a coeducational high school located in Danwon District, Ansan, South Korea. It is a state school, being under the authority of Gyeonggi Province's Office of Education. [1]
The school was founded in 2005. [2] In cooperation with The Borderless Village, a non-governmental organization, it established a multiculturalism program in 2006 and 2007. [3] Its motto is "self-realization." As of May 2013, there were 1542 pupils at the school.
MV Sewol tragedy
On April 16, 2014, a ferry carrying 325 of the school's second-year class and a dozen of its teachers capsized en route from Incheon towards Jeju resulting in many fatalities and injuries. [4]
The school was closed until April 24, when it opened only for the 75 surviving juniors; yellow ribbons were tied to the school's gate, and a shrine of flowers and hundreds of notes to the dead adorned the school's entrance. [4] A makeshift memorial was established in a nearby basketball gymnasium, with a wall of flowers and dozens of photos of the dead and missing. [4]
The school's vice principal, Kang Min-kyu, who had been rescued from the ferry, died by suicide a few days after the disaster. [5]
Sister schools
References
- ^ "Danwon High School". Doopedia. Archived from the original on 2023-04-16.
- ^ "학교연혁". Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ "원곡동서 '미션' 수행 "다문화가 쏙쏙"". The Hankyoreh. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-05-27. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ a b c Mullen, Jethro; Kwon, Judy (25 April 2014). "Memories and traces of students lost in South Korean ferry disaster". CNN. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
- ^ "South Korea ferry disaster: rescued teacher found dead". The Guardian. 18 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
External links
- Official website (in Korean)
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