Gimpo Foreign Language High School is a boarding high school in
Gimpo
Gimpo () is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It borders Incheon, with which it shares the South Korean side of the Han River estuary, as well as Seoul and the lesser cities of Paju and Goyang. North Korea is across the Han River. The cu ...
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South Korea specialising in the teaching of foreign languages. Construction of the school building began in December 2004; the school opened its doors to students in March 2006, having spent
₩21 billion on construction. The director Jeon Byeong-du, a construction equipment magnate, used his own fortune to build the school, joking that he would rather give something back to society than leave his money to his children and start an inheritance dispute. Students can choose to study
English,
Chinese, or
Japanese. The school admitted 290 students in its first year, divided into eight classes (four for English and two each for Chinese and Japanese).
Just one year after its establishment, the school became the object of controversy when it was revealed that test questions for its entrance examination, along with those of
Myeongji Foreign Language High School and
Anyang Foreign Language High School, had been leaked to students of a
Seoul cram school; provincial education officials cancelled the admissions of the 54 students in question and held an extra examination to fill the seats which opened up as a result.
References
External links
Homepage (in Korean, English, and Japanese)
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Boarding schools in South Korea
Educational institutions established in 2006
Language high schools in South Korea
2006 establishments in South Korea