Type Public Principal Kim Jin-myung (김진명) Number of students 1,746 (as of 2013) Phone +82 31-488-0087 Founded 2005 | Established 2005 Grades 10–12 Tree Pinus densiflora Total enrollment 1,542 (May 2013) Motto 自我實現 (Self-realization) Faculty 115 (2013) | |
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Danwon high school resumes classes for all three graders on monday
Danwon High School (Korean: 단원고등학교, Hanja: 檀園高等學校) is a coeducational high school located in Ansan, South Korea. It is a state school, being under the authority of Gyeonggi Province's Office of Education.
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The school was founded in 2005. In cooperation with The Borderless Village, a non-governmental organization, in 2006 and 2007 it established a multiculturalism program. Its motto is "self-realization." As of May 2013 there were 1542 pupils at the school.
Incidents
On April 16, 2014, a ferry carrying 325 of the school's junior class and a dozen of its teachers capsized en route from Incheon towards Jeju resulting in many fatalities and injuries.
The school was closed until April 24, when it opened only for the 75 surviving juniors; yellow ribbons were tied to the school's gate, and a shrine of flowers and hundreds of notes to the dead adorn the school's entrance. A makeshift memorial was established in a nearby basketball gymnasium, with a wall of flowers and dozens of photos of the dead and missing.
The school's vice principal, Kang Min-Kyu, who had been rescued from the ferry, committed suicide a few days after the disaster.