Seoul - School Report Question and Answers
Maintenance of appropriately high standards for all students:
They have very high standards. However, they also do a very good job of tempering the Korean pressure cooker/expectation that everyone must get all 100%'s to be successful. Almost all local kids go to after-school schools here (hogwans) until quite late at night. Their parents put unbelievable pressure on them succeed academically. KIS does a good job of building in fun things and less-academic but still valuable activities into the day. - May 2016
This is one of the strong points of the school. The reputation this school has for academic excellence and for being a gateway to an outstanding U.S. univeristy is to top in all of Korea. As international schools go, this is the best program in Seoul. - Nov 2015
Comparable to America. - May 2015
D- YISS has very unreachably high standards for behavior - i.e. - no talking in the lunchroom. I would say academically, they are fair to middling. None of my four kids were challenged or pushed academically. - Feb 2015
