Yongbuk Middle School

Yongbuk Middle School is located at the township of Samaemyeon, Namwon which lies in the middle of North Jeolla or Jeonbuk (Chonbuk) province, in Southwestern South Korea. The school was formally established as a name of Samae Secondary Academy on October March, 1949. It currently has six classes in which there two classes in each of 7th, 8th and 9th grades. The student quota of each grade is sixty. The total number of the students is one hundred and seventy two as of March 27, 2011. Yongbuk Middle School attached facilities are the Hanmaum Christian Academy, and Yongbuk Digital Library. Autonomous Yongbuk Middle School is an autonomous school which can be run autonomously by using its discretion in admitting students. Because of the autonomy of selecting its own students, Yongbuk Middle School (Henceforth, YMS) can select its own students nationwide. In addition, YMS is a private-run Christian school which teaches students from the Biblical worldview to build their good characters. All the teaching and administrative staff are Christians and do their best to devote themselves to building good and happy educational environments. In our students' academic achievement, YMS is a top-ranking middle school in Jeonbuk Province as well as Namwon. The competition rate in the 2011 YMS entrance examination is 2.01:1. AbOUT 40 percent of the 2011 FreshMen students are boarding students. Means are provided three times a day because YMS is also operated as a boarding school. Its school dormitory named Cheong-am-gwan (Chung-Am Hall) accommodates one hundred persons. If a middle school student wants to transfer to YMS, he or she can be selected through the evaluation process of the student record and interview in August and February every year under the condition that there is a vacant seat in each grade level.

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Partner school

The university maintains a sisterhood tie with Soongduk Girls' High School.

Scholarships

- New Students: Scholarships are offered to incoming freshmen whose academic achievements are very high or whose scholastic spirit so high but whose parents' economic status is so low.
- Enrolled Students: Lots of scholarships are offered to currently enrolled students whose academic performance is excellent or whose parents' economic status is so low.