The Joongdong Educational Foundation (학교법인 중동학원) is a private school corporation that operates

Joongdong High School Joongdong High School (Hangul: 중동고등학교, Hanja: 中東高等學校) is a private school founded in 1906, located in Irwon-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea. The school and its foundation were undertaken in 1994 by Samsung Grou ...

and Joongdong Middle School. Founded in 1906 as the Joongdong School (중동학교), the Joongdong Foundation was brought to its current form in 1948.

History

For 17 years (1994–2011), the Samsung Group funded the Joongdong Foundation for 17, bringing it up as a leading private school corporation in South Korea. Currently, the foundation operates 2 schools and is led by a

board of trustees A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...

that consists of 7 members. The chairman of the board is

Kim Duck-soo Kim Duck-Soo (born 1935) is a South Korean educator. He is the current chairman of the board of trustees at the Joongdong Educational Foundation. Kim graduated Seoul National University and received national security education at the Korea Nati ...

Current Board of Trustees

References

{{reflist *네이버 백과사전 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=821236, *경향신문 1994년 3월 27일, *동아일보 http://news.donga.com/3/all/20111020/41272405/1 *학교법인 중동학원 www.joongdong.org * 중동학원 Education in South Korea Educational organizations based in South Korea