Daejeon Gwanjeo High School (

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hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

: 大田關雎高等學校) is a high school in

Seo-gu, Daejeon Seo District (Seo-gu) is a gu ("district") of Daejeon, South Korea. Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall is also located there. Administrative divisions Seo-gu is divided into 14 '' dong'' (동, "neighborhoods"): * Gasuwon-dong * Gwanjeo-dong * G ...

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. This public, coeducational college preparatory high school was founded on 5 March 1998 with the permission of Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resource. Abbreviation of Daejeon Gwanjeo High School is DGHS.

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Its name Gwanjeo (

: 關雎) is derived from a

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. In this Chinese poem, Gwanjeo (

: 關雎) is pronounced in Guanju (

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: 关雎;

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: guānjū). In old Chinese, Guanju was a kind of

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. On the logo of DGHS, kissing are two white birds that symbolize Gwanjeo ( Guanju).

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