Dear Friends of KIS, Jeju
Since the world has changed into a neighborhood and a single global community, Y.B Min, the chairman of YBM, realized the necessity of an international school with the highest standards in Korea. For this reason, in 2000, he established Korea International School (KIS) in Pangyo, the headquarter campus of KIS, Jeju, to educate intelligent and talented young people and to cultivate their globalized awareness and professionalism. Today, KIS 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.
As we look to the years ahead, there are items on our agenda that we wish to pursue.
First, We want to ensure that our graduates gain admission to the fine, 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.
Second, we believe that a diverse school environment is important for the socialization and 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 aboard, to join our student body.
Third, 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.
All KIS faculty and administrative staff will do their best to support KIS, Jeju’s constant development to be amongst the best international schools.
And finally, I would like to comment on a personal goal that I share with Y.B. Min, chairman of YBM and the person primarily responsible for the founding and the success of KIS. On the school’s opening day in 1999 he said that his fondest wish was that one day a student going forth from KIS would become Secretary-General of the United Nations. I cherish that wish and dedicate my every effort on behalf of the school to ensure that it will one day come true.
Please visit our campus and experience for yourself all that KIS, Jeju has to offer.
Sunshik Min,
Chairman of the Board
