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Instituto Coreano Argentino (ICA, "Argentina Korean School," ) is a Korean international school in
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
,
Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
. It serves the preschool and elementary school levels. In 2010 it had 29 teachers, 184 day kindergarten students, and 155 day elementary students. Its weekend school that year had 207 students. There are two principals, one each appointed by the Ministry of Education of Argentina and the Ministry of Education of South Korea. Jaekeun Lee, author of the master's degree thesis "En búsqueda de una identidad coreana-argentina: Exploración y aproximación panorámica de los elementos identitarios del coreano-argentino a través del análisis de ''La peonia y su sombra''," described ICA as an example of maintaining "Koreanism", that is, their Korean culture, language, and heritage in Argentina.


History

It originated from the Korean School in Argentina, a weekend school established in 1976 and registered with the embassy of South Korea in 1977. The organization was founded in 1986. In this year, land was bought on which the ICA building would be built later. The day school was established with funding from the South Korean government in 1995 with a curricula established and oversighted by the South Korean Ministry of Education, and the Argentine Ministry of Education gave formal approval to the enrollment of students in 1998, being added a morning school with the Argentine curricula taught in Spanish.


Curriculum

The school has coursework in Korean, Spanish, and English, with subjects related to Korea in the first language. Lessons are taught from Monday to Friday in the morning and in the afternoon, where morning subjects are standard lessons according to the Argentine curricula such as mathematics, Spanish language, physical education, natural sciences or social sciences that are taught in the Spanish language, while afternoon subjects include English and Korean languages, Korean history, Korean art, and computing. All students are required to take
taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...
. ICA offers Korean language lessons in the "Saturdays' school" ("''Escuela de los sábados''" in Spanish), which Korean-Argentine and Argentine people can attend.


See also

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Koreans in Argentina Koreans in Argentina (also known as Argentine Koreans or Korean Argentines) form the second-largest Korean diaspora community in South America and the 16th largest in the world, according to the statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Aff ...


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