Danwon High School
High school in Danwon District, Ansan, South Korea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
On April 16, 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 resulting in many fatalities and injuries.[4]
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 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]
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
