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Daejeon Gwanjeo High School

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Song Yong-geun (송용근)

Founded
  
5 March 1998

Established
  
Mar 5, 1998

Number of students
  
1,029 (2007)

Faculty
  
71 (2007)

Motto
  
Righteousness, Self-control, Creativity (정심, 자율, 창조)

Symbol
  
White Pine Tree (백송) Magnolia (목련)

Website
  
Daejeon Gwanjeo High School

Daejeon Gwanjeo High School (hangeul: 대전관저고등학교 hanja: 大田關雎高等學校) is a high school in Seo-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. This public, coeducational college preparatory high school was founded on 5 March 1998 with the permission of Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resource. Abbreviation of Daejeon Gwanjeo High School is DGHS.

Symbol

Its name Gwanjeo(hanja: 關雎) is derived from a poem in Shi Jing. In this Chinese poem, Gwanjeo(hanja: 關雎) is pronounced in Guanju(simplified chinese: 关雎; pinyin: guānjū). In old Chinese, Guanju was a kind of osprey. On the logo of DGHS, kissing are two white birds that symbolize Gwanjeo(Guanju).

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Daejeon Gwanjeo High School Wikipedia