Busan Foreign School

Our faculty provides engaging learning experiences that help our students achieve academic, social, and emotional success. We build a strong literacy foundation at all levels and use globally recognized curricula to engage, teach, and challenge our students. We intentionally complement this with positive community, effective management, and developmental awareness programs. BFS students also have access to a wide variety of academic, artistic, and athletic enrichment activities. In addition, we equip them with the tools and skills they need to be responsible, contributing, global citizens. Our SHARK schoolwide learner outcomes (SLOs) drive all that we do and form the basis of our value system.

We continue our professional learning and growth so that we are able to develop engaging units of study and high expectations for students. We value our partnership with you, parents and families. Together, we will support students’ social and emotional health, provide them with rigorous academic growth, and meet our mission. Together we will live our motto, Embracing Diversity, Striving for Excellence.

Our Vision: We believe that all students, regardless of their financial or social standing, deserve an equal right to quality education.

Our mission is to inspire each learner and provide educational services that nurture their social, intellectual, emotional, and physical growth. BFS students are prepared to enter top universities worldwide and become responsible, contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world. Our ongoing commitment to intercultural understanding and a strong partnership of students, parents, and teachers allows us to achieve this in a caring and supportive environment.

At BFS, our American Early Childhood- Grade 12 instructional foundation provides all students with the necessary skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be successful and flexible learners in the future. Our teaching subject areas are kept up to date in a continuous curriculum review and improvement cycle.

Learning at BFS is on solid footing; American Education Reaches Out (AERO) and the USA based Common Core State Standards Initiative are our curriculum building blocks. In addition, at the high school level, rigorous Advanced Placement courses in the humanities, math, and sciences challenge all students and are a part of an intentional college prep curriculum.

Understanding for Design is the curriculum framework used by our certified teachers to develop appropriate and engaging demonstrations of learning within each classroom. This active and authentic student-centered learning model is paired with educational best practice teaching techniques by our staff to ensure each student a world-class quality education.