Our campus is situated in a purpose-designed building just south of the Han River in the centrally located Seocho District. After opening in 2010 with 223 students we have steadily expanded our role to accommodate over 600 students from the Nursery to Year 13 age groups (ages 3 to 18 years).
At Dulwich College Seoul, we aim to make education a memorable experience for your children. The College offers a friendly and intimate learning environment where we aim for all students to be nurtured, challenged, and inspired. It is important to me that all our families become part of a close-knit community, both within our College and as part of the ever-expanding Dulwich family worldwide. Education is a partnership between the school and home, so these links are vital in supporting your children through their formative Primary and Senior School years.
Anything we do at the College will always focus on maximizing the learning opportunities, welfare, and happiness of our students. Dulwich College Seoul is an inspiring place in which to study, being home to learners from many different countries and continents. We actively harness this diversity and teach our students to value and respect the wealth of cultures, religions, and traditions that make our school such an enriching place for your children.
Our students deserve success and it is our responsibility to help them realize it. True happiness and future achievement depend upon being comfortable with oneself and upon standing out from the crowd, not simply blending in with it. Success comes in many forms but is not achieved without the effort and stamina that comes naturally to some but not to others.
This clear vision - to create the best schools in the world so our students make a positive difference - guides the decisions we make as a family of schools. Our schools, founded in 2003 by parents who wanted the best for their children, have always and will continue to put our students first. We use the strength of our network to continue to pioneer and innovate in all aspects of the organization – from curricula and educational spaces to events and technology. Our students are already among the world’s best, and our young alumni, who are all still under 30, are already beginning to make a difference as they enter the worlds of medicine, law, business, technology, the arts, and public service. We can’t wait to see what they’ll do.
Dulwich College Seoul was the fourth to join the Dulwich College International (DCI) family of schools, opening its doors in 2010. The College is made up of over 650 students from age 3 to age 18, with over forty different nationalities represented in our diverse student body. Our links to Dulwich College, founded in 1619, are strong, and we collaborate closely with the other schools in the network to encourage an international outlook and create an extended community where academic ability is fostered, creativity is valued, and diversity is celebrated. We are proud to share a common heritage with all the schools in the DCI network, and equally value the traditions, unique to our school, that we have created since we opened.
Dulwich College Seoul educates children from age 3 to 18, and English is the language of instruction. Children up to age 5 follow the Early Years Foundation Stage, and from Year 1 to Year 9 they follow the National Curriculum of England and Wales, which is enhanced to meet the needs of our international student body. In Year 10 they begin the IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education), a rigorous two-year course that requires students to take a broad range of subjects covering maths and sciences, English and foreign languages, and the humanities. It culminates in exams at the end of Year 11 and prepares students well for the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) starting in Year 12.
Being part of a network allows our schools to work together, leveraging their talent and resources to put on events, forge internal and external relationships, and share experiences. This exposes our students and staff to a rich and varied choice of experiences that individual schools could not offer on their own. By our group’s relationships with leading educational and artistic institutions, Dulwich College International students perform soliloquies under the tutelage of actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, sing with the Vienna Boys’ Choir, and work with the innovative musicians from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. They take an active part in group sporting, artistic, intellectual, and leadership events, such as the Diversity series, the Dulwich Festival of Music, the Science and Art Photo Competition, the Shakespeare Festival, the Mike Gatting Cricket Festival, the Shackleton Lectures, and the Student Leadership Conference. They learn about the importance of giving back through community service, and as many of these projects are brought under the umbrella of the Dulwich International Schools Foundation, their opportunities will expand further. They enjoy the benefits of the extensive, structured program of professional learning that we provide to all our staff members. They will reap the benefits of our STEAM curriculum in our SE21 Studios, as well as our pioneering Mandarin program, which addresses the unique challenges of teaching this complex and wonderful language. With group support, we have made a huge investment of time in both these programs, which are so crucial to preparing our children for the future.
Our network attracts leading and innovative academic leaders. The Dulwich College International Schools Team support the academic teams at each of our schools, giving them the advantage of their specialist knowledge, ensuring consistency in the content and quality of our teaching, and spreading innovations they may observe at one school throughout the group.
And finally, our network strengthens community bonds. Students from different Dulwich College International schools may get to know each other one year through a group event, and find themselves classmates the next when one of them has moved from, say, Dulwich College in Singapore to Dulwich College Shanghai. Students facing the challenges of an international move will make a much smoother transition when their new school is so familiar. With many of our teachers transferring within the family of schools as well, we can keep the benefits of their knowledge and experience within the group.
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