Japanese School in Seoul

International school in Seoul, South Korea

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The Japanese School in Seoul (ソウル日本人学校, Souru Nihonjin Gakkō, 서울일본인학교) is a Japanese international school located in the Sangam-dong neighborhood of Mapo District, Seoul, for the children of Japanese citizens residing in South Korea.^[1]

The Japanese School in Seoul was established on May 8, 1972, with a total of 33 kindergarten and primary school students.^[2] In 2005, it had grown to 403 students at kindergarten, primary and middle school levels. The Japanese School in Seoul is recognized by Japan's Ministry of Education as teaching a curriculum equivalent to schools for the same ages in Japan.

The Japanese School in Seoul moved to its current location in Digital Media City (DMC) in Mapo on September 27, 2010, from its former location in the Gaepo-dong neighborhood of Gangnam District.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Home page Archived 2015-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. Japanese School in Seoul. Retrieved on January 15, 2015. See address here "ソウル特別市麻浦区上岩洞1582"
^ "Japanese School in Seoul." International School Information, Government of South Korea. Retrieved on March 30, 2016. "11, World Cup buk-ro 62-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul"
^ "International Schools Coming to Seoul". Consulate of South Korea in Boston. 2008-08-08. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
^ Home page. Japanese School in Seoul. August 5, 2004. Retrieved on October 19, 2016. "大韓民国ソウル特別市江南区開浦洞153" - 153 Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

External links

Japanese School in Seoul (in Japanese)
Japanese School in Seoul (in Japanese) (Archive)

International schools in South Korea

Seoul

Closed	Seoul American High School

Gyeonggi
Province

Kwangju Foreign School

Daejeon

Taejon Christian International School

Gyeongnam

International School of Koje

Jeju

Defunct

Overseas Japanese day and boarding schools

Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in a separate template

Nihonjin gakkō

Africa	Cairo Johannesburg Nairobi
Australia	Melbourne Perth Sydney
East, South, and Southeast Asia	Bandung Bangkok Beijing Busan Colombo Dalian Dhaka Guangzhou Hangzhou Hanoi Hong Kong Ho Chi Minh City Islamabad Jakarta Johor Kaohsiung Karachi Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Manila Mumbai New Delhi Penang Phnom Penh Qingdao Seoul Shanghai (*) Shenzhen Singapore Sriracha, Thailand Surabaya Suzhou Taichung Taipei Tianjin Yangon
Europe	Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Brussels Bucharest Budapest Düsseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg London Madrid Milan Moscow Munich Paris Prague Rome Rotterdam Vienna Warsaw Zurich
Middle East	Abu Dhabi Doha Dubai Istanbul Jeddah Riyadh Tehran
Mexico and Central America	Aguascalientes Guatemala Mexico City Panama City San José
South America	Asunción Bogotá Buenos Aires Caracas Lima Manaus Rio de Janeiro Santiago (JA) São Paulo
United States	Chicago Greenwich (New York area) Guam New Jersey (New York area)

Shiritsu zaigai
kyōiku shisetsu

Unapproved by MEXT

Closed

Closed nihonjin gakkō	Algiers Athens Baghdad Bahrain Beirut Belém Belgrade Belo Horizonte Calcutta (Kolkata) Las Palmas Kuwait Lagos Medan Quito Vitória
Closed Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu	Gyosei International School UK () Lycée Konan () Lycée Seijo () Seigakuin Atlanta Shi-Tennoji School in UK () South Queensland Academy () Sundai Ireland () Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School () Toin Gakuen Schule () Tokai University Boarding School (*)
Closed unapproved schools	International Bilingual School

Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT).
Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels. Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools.
MEXT categorizes Japanese sections of European international schools as hoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools. See the template for part-time schools.