Type Private Foundation Founded 1948 | Industry Education | |
Headquarters Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea Key people Duck-soo Kim, Chairman of the Board | ||
The Joongdong Educational Foundation (학교법인 중동학원) is a private school corporation that operates Joongdong High School and Joongdong Middle School. Founded in 1906 as the Joongdong School (중동학교), the Joongdong foundation was brought to its current form in 1948.
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History
From 1994 to 2011, the Samsung Group funded the Joongdong Foundation for 17 years, bringing it up as a leading private school corporation in Korea.
Currently, the foundation operates 2 schools and is led by a Board of Trustees that consists of 7 members. The chairman of the board is Duck-soo Kim.
Current Board of Trustees
as of 2012 4/15References
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