Danwon High School
Danwon High School (Korean: 단원고등학교; Hanja: 檀園高等學校) is a coeducational high school located in Danwon District, Ansan, South Korea. It is a state school, being under the authority of Gyeonggi Province's Office of Education.[1]
The school was founded in 2005.[2] In cooperation with The Borderless Village, a non-governmental organization, it established a multiculturalism program in 2006 and 2007.[3] Its motto is "self-realization." As of May 2013, there were 1542 pupils at the school.
MV Sewol tragedy
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On 16 April 2014, a ferry carrying 325 of the school's second-year class and a dozen of its teachers capsized en route from Incheon towards Jeju Island resulting in many fatalities and injuries.[4]
The school was closed until 24 April 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 adorned the school's entrance.[4] A makeshift memorial was established in a nearby basketball gymnasium, with a wall of flowers and dozens of photos of the dead and missing.[4]
The school's vice principal, Kang Min-kyu, who had been rescued from the ferry, died by suicide a few days after the disaster.[5]
The classrooms used by the second-year students at the time of the disaster had been preserved as a "Memorial Classrooms,"[6] but when new students were assigned to the school in 2016, there was a shortage of classrooms. It was argued that the “Memorial Classroom” should be returned to the current students to resolve the shortage and alleviate the psychological burden on them.[7] The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education proposed to the bereaved families that it would relocate the 10 Memory Classrooms to a site in front of the school to create a facility tentatively named the "April 16 Democratic Citizenship Education Center", but the plan was scrapped due to opposition from relevant groups,[8] prompting some parents to disrupt new student orientations and declare that they would block all school events and access to the school until the Memory Classrooms were returned.[9][10]
Sister schools
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Danwon High School". Doopedia. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023.
- ↑ 학교연혁. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ↑ 원곡동서 '미션' 수행 "다문화가 쏙쏙". The Hankyoreh. 17 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 May 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- 1 2 3 Mullen, Jethro; Kwon, Judy (25 April 2014). "Memories and traces of students lost in South Korean ferry disaster". CNN. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ↑ "South Korea ferry disaster: rescued teacher found dead". The Guardian. 18 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ↑ 경태영, 경태영 (2 February 2016). "세월호 참사 안산 단원고 '기억교실' 어쩌나?" [What will happen to Danwon High's 'memory classrooms' from the Sewol ferry disaster?]. 경향신문. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ↑ 김경태, 김경태 (2 February 2016). "신입생 들어왔는데 공부할 교실 없는 단원고" [No classrooms for new students at Danwon High]. 연합뉴스. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ↑ 남경현, 남경현 (3 February 2016). ""단원고 재학생에 교실 돌려주세요"" ["Please give Danwon High students their classrooms back"]. 동아일보. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ↑ 김기성, 김기성 (16 February 2016). "'세월호 기억교실' 존치 갈등에…단원고 신입생 설명회 무산" [Sewol 'memory classroom' preservation dispute cancels Danwon High new-student orientation]. 한겨레. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ↑ 박세미, 박세미 (16 February 2016). ""기억교실 문제 방관해온 이재정 교육감 사퇴하라"" ["Resign Superintendent Lee Jae-jeong for neglecting the memory-classroom issue"]. 조선일보. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Yun, Min Sik (18 January 2016). "The rooms where time refuses to pass". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Korean)
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