Yanbian International Academy (YIA; 延边外国人学校 "Yanbian Foreigners' School") is a K-12 international school in

Yanji Yanji (; Chosŏn'gŭl: 연길, ''Yeon-gil;'' Hangul: 옌지, ''Yenji;'' alternately romanized as Yenki) is a county-level city in the east of China's Jilin Province, and is the seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Its population i ...

Yanbian Yanbian (; Chosŏn'gŭl: , ''Yeonbyeon''), officially known as the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the east of Jilin Province, China. Yanbian is bordered to the north by Heilongjiang Province, on the west by ...

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. It is a part of the

Yanbian University of Science and Technology The Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST; , ), is a research university in the city of Yanji, Jilin, China. YUST is the first Korean Chinese joint-venture university in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and first intern ...

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. Yanbian International Academy. Retrieved on October 1, 2015.

History

YIA opened in 1997 as a quasi-homeschool run by a group of mothers, teaching English and Korean. There were 25 students in this homeschooling group. Dr. James Wooton became the first headmaster of YIA in the fall of 1998. The student body was reduced to 14 at the time because some of the original students transferred to the

Yanbian Korean School Korean International School in Yanbian (KISY; Korean: 연변한국국제학교; ) is a Korean international school in Yanji, Yanbian, Jilin, China. It serves students in elementary school through high school. It was established on December 1, 1997 ...

when it opened. The school had ten part-time teachers and five full-time teachers at the time. When Lee Nichols took over as headmaster in the fall of 2000, the student body had grown to 30. There was one fewer full-time teacher at the time, but the number of part-time teachers increased to 17. Scott Kim took over as headmaster in the fall of 2013.Yanbian International Academy (YIA)

Archive
. YUST PUST Foundation. Retrieved on October 1, 2015. The student body is currently stabilized at 53 in November 2017.

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