Korea International School Seoul

KIS today stands at the forefront of international education in Korea. Our students represent the promise of what the youth of today bring to the future. This is a result of their KIS education, which emphasizes intellectual inquisitiveness, critical thinking, creative expression, physical well being, respect for others, and integrity in all things. We regard these qualities as the hallmarks of a KIS education and to fulfill our responsibility as educators hold our students to the highest standards of scholarship, personal development, and citizenship.

• We want to ensure that our graduates gain admission to the finest, most selective universities in the world. To do that we will strive to continually raise our standards for admissions, for recruiting faculty and administration, and for student performance.
• We believe that a diverse school environment is important for the socialization of young people and to ensure their success as global citizens. To that end we actively recruit students of a range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, both at home and abroad, to join our student body.
• We want our school to represent the best that Korea has to offer, but also that our students come to understand the world in which we live-socially, economically, culturally, and linguistically. We demand that our students reach out to the world, to learn about its peoples and its ways, and will continue to do so, and that they embrace an inclusionary rather than an exclusionary vision of humanity.

We will judge our success by the degree to which we accomplish these goals. Likewise, we ask that you, as a member of our broad education community, hold us accountable as we guide KIS on its course toward meeting its purpose and its destiny.

We are thrilled to welcome you to our dynamic learning community. KIS is known for providing students with a rigorous curriculum that is offered with a high level support to help students successfully achieve their learning goals. What most distinguishes KIS, however, is our commitment to guide students in extending their learning even further beyond our high standards to personalize their experiences and extend interests well beyond the confines of the classroom.

Our ultimate goal is for students to be able to apply their learning and transfer the knowledge and skills they are acquiring through our curricula to new settings where they can solve authentic problems. We achieve this through unique curricular design, programming experiences, and robust co-curricular offerings to cultivate students’ interests and talents.