Danwon High School (Korean: 단원고등학교;Hanja: 檀園高等學校) is a coeducationalhigh school located inDanwon District, Ansan, South Korea. It is a state school, being under the authority ofGyeonggi 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 16 April 2014,a ferry carrying 325 of the school's second-year class and a dozen of its teachers capsized en route fromIncheon towardsJeju 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]
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