Seongsan High School is a high school in

Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...

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History

The school was approved on 18 November 2001, and construction was completed on 1 May 2002. On 4 March 2003, the first entrance ceremony was conducted.

Symbols

The tree of the school is a

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, which symbolizes faith, meeting, and capacity. The flower is a

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, symbolizing youth. The school's color is blue-green, which means youth, vitality, pure passion, and endless growing. The school has four goals for students. Students should have a sense of responsibility and morality; students aim to develop creativity to adapt themselves to future society; students need to develop intellectual capacity to contribute to community development; and students aim to cultivate a harmonious mind and body. The motto is self-realization.

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