Seoul High School (
Hangul: 서울고등학교) is a public high school located in
Seocho-dong, the greater Gangnam area
Seocho-gu,
Seoul,
South Korea. Seoul High School is a member school of Gangnam School District Eight (강남8학군).
History
The school was established at the site of
Gyeonghuigung in 1946, moving to the current site (
Seocho-dong) due to restoration of
Gyeonghuigung. Named Kyung Sung Middle School during Japanese occupation.
Pochung Monument: Set up on June 15, 1956, in remembrance of Seoul High School students who sacrificed their lives for the
Korean War or the
April Revolution
The Statue of Major Kang, Jae-gu: Set up on April 12, 1986, in honor of Major Kang, who sacrificed his life to save more than 100 subordinates on Oct 4, 1965, when one of his subordinates threw a hand grenade in the wrong direction by mistake during the military training for the
Vietnamese War
Rim Kwan, 2nd president of
KAIST, later the chairman of its board of directors. President and later chairman of the
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung's central R&D center. Chairman of the
Sungkyunkwan University Foundation. Professor and Associate Dean at the
University of Iowa College of Engineering, also founder of its Biomedical Engineering department.