Danwon High School (

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: 단원고등학교,

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: 檀園高等學校) is a coeducational

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located in Danwon District,

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, South Korea. It is a

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, being under the authority of

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's Office of Education. The school was founded in 2005. In cooperation with The Borderless Village, a non-governmental organization, in 2006 and 2007 it established a multiculturalism program. 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 junior class and a dozen of its teachers capsized en route from

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towards

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resulting in many fatalities and injuries. The school was closed until April 24, when it opened only for the 75 surviving juniors;

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s were tied to the school's gate, and a shrine of flowers and hundreds of notes to the dead adorned the school's entrance. A makeshift memorial was established in a nearby basketball gymnasium, with a wall of flowers and dozens of photos of the dead and missing. The school's vice principal, Kang Min-kyu, who had been rescued from the ferry, died by suicide a few days after the disaster.

Sister schools

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* {{Authority control Danwon-gu Buildings and structures in Ansan Education in Ansan High schools in South Korea Educational institutions established in 2005 2005 establishments in South Korea MV Sewol