Gwacheon Foreign Language High school () is an

Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ...

High School A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

located in Gyeong-gi province, Gwacheon-si,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

. The school was established on 5 May 1990 and It is the first Foreign Language High School established in

Gyeonggi Province Gyeonggi Province (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Seoul, the nation's largest city and capital, is in the heart of the area but has been separately administered as a provincial-level ''special city'' since 1946. Incheon, ...

.
Gwacheon Foreign Language High school is a special high school in

. Students in this school would be able to learn foreign languages in more details compared to students in ordinary high school.
'Kwacheon Foreign Language High School' is an old name which was used before the revision of

Korean romanization The romanization of Korean is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. There are multiple romanization systems in common use. The two most prominent systems are McCune–Reischauer (MR) and Revised Romanization (RR). MR ...

Departments

* English major (4 classes) **Second major

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

(2 classes) **Second major Chinese (2 classes) * Chinese major (2 classes) *

major (2 classes) * French major (1 class) *

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

major (1 class)

Enrollment

GCFL has a total enrollment of over 600 students. Primarily, Applications are accepted based on

Middle school Middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school. Afghanistan In Afghanistan, middle school includes g ...

English scores. After that, Students conduct an interview based on their

Curriculum vitae In English, a curriculum vitae (,

. With the overall score accumulated during these two phases, the school announces the final successful applicants. Some departments are harder to get into than others, as some languages are considered more useful or easier to learn than others.

Student life

Events

*Yulmokje (율목제) - Festival held biennially by students, clubs, and teachers. *Formation process of Socialization (사회화 형성 과정) - Lecture held several times each year to educate students. Usually its talkers are graduates. * Yulmok debating championship (율목 토론 대회)

Extra-curricular activities

The school's Extra-curricular activities has evolved over the years. Now GCFL has over 40 Extra-curricular activities clubs.

Clubs

* ERES-TU -

Glee club A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs by trios or quartets. In the late 19th century it was very popular in ...

* School Ambassador K.I.N.G -

Promotion Promotion may refer to: Marketing * Promotion (marketing), one of the four marketing mix elements, comprising any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or i ...

team, King Is New GCFL, Promote the school to middle school students * Students' Union 秀 -

Student Council A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...

, Volunteers for entire school, holds students' conference. * RABS (Rab And BE Satisfied) * PCGS - Fashion Model & Design Club * KFBS - Broadcasting department, plans and broadcasts

school A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most co ...

Radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...

program. * BreathLess - Instrumentalists' club. Usually performs in school festival '율목제'. * INTERACT - International Volunteer Club * STOPMIC -

Photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

club. * GAONNURI (가온누리, Heart of the world) - Korean

Samul nori () is a genre of Korean percussion music. It is a modern adaptation of traditional Korean musics, namely the ritual farming music '' nongak'' and Korean shamanic music ''muak'', for the indoor stage. As per its name, ''samul nori'' is perform ...

club. * Seo-Yi-Seong-Rak (서이성락) - Publishes 'Yulmok' biennially, the entirely student-run

yearbook A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of Annual publication, a book published annually. One use is to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school. The term also refers to a book of statistics or facts published annually ...

. * Chamarom (참아롬) - Publishes Biannual

School newspaper A student publication is a media outlet such as a newspaper, magazine, television show, or radio station Graduate student journal, produced by students at an educational institution. These publications typically cover local and school-related new ...

. * KPEC - Kwacheon Practical English club. * Nouvelle Vague - movie making club. 'Nouvelle Vague' means 'New wave of the movie'. *

VANK The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (), abbreviated VANK (), is an Internet-based South Korean organization established by Park Ki-Tae in 1999, consisting of 120,000 South Korean members and 30,000 international members. VANK's membership consis ...

* - hacking club. * A2D - Dance Club * KYPF - Korean youth political forum * MUNERS - practicing Model United Nation

Academic teams

* K.H.D.C has

British Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of ...

style debate,

Model United Nations Model United Nations, also known as Model UN (MUN), is an educational simulation of the United Nations, which teaches students about diplomacy, international relations, global issues, and how the United Nations is run. During a model UN confe ...

and

Model Congress Model Congress gives students a chance to engage in a role-playing simulation of the United States United States Congress, Congress. Such events are hosted by the Congress itself, Rutgers University, American International College, University of Ma ...

activities. * YUPAD - Youth Union of Politics And Diplomacy * KPEC (Kwacheon Practical English Club) - Publishes their own English textbooks, also has

style debate and

activities. In KPEC, the members will get together and make lyrics, script etc. and enjoy watching American movies or drama. It also plans to go out and have some activities like introducing

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

n culture. * Heart Of Writing (하오라) - English Essay Writing Club * Muners - Model united nations

Sports

* Berserkers - School

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

team * SPIRE - School

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

team

References

{{Coord, display=title, 37, 25, 54, N, 126, 59, 18, E Language high schools in South Korea Schools in Gyeonggi Province Gwacheon Educational institutions established in 1990 Private schools in South Korea 1990 establishments in South Korea