Joongdong Educational Foundation

The Joongdong Educational Foundation (학교법인 중동학원) is a private school corporation that operates Joongdong High School and Joongdong Middle School. Founded in 1906 as the Joongdong School (중동학교), the Joongdong foundation was brought to its current form in 1948.

Joongdong Educational Foundation
學校法人中東學園

Type	Private Foundation
Industry	Education
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Duck-soo Kim, Chairman of the Board

History

From 1994 to 2011, the Samsung Group funded the Joongdong Foundation for 17 years, bringing it up as a leading private school corporation in Korea.

Currently, the foundation operates 2 schools and is led by a board of trustees that consists of 7 members. The chairman of the board is Duck-soo Kim.

Current Board of Trustees

as of 2012 4/15

Title	Name	Occupation	Term
Trustee
Chairman	Kim Duck-soo	Chairman, Gwanak Educational Founcation	2012 1/1 ~ 2016 1/9
Member	Kim Sung-duk	Official, Ministry of Education	2012 4/30 ~ 2016 4/30
	Yoo Mu-sung	Chairman, Samyoung Chemical Co., Ltd.	2012 4/30 ~ 2016 4/30
	Shim Jae-gon	President, Korea Environment & Resources Corporation	2012 4/30 ~ 2016 4/30
	Kim Byung-taek	Professor, Sungkyunkwan University	2010 4/6 ~ 2014 4/6
	Chun Yong-uk	Vice President, Usong University	2012 5/29 ~ 2016 5/29
	Song Young-soo	Professor, Hanyang University	2010 4/6 ~ 2014 4/6
Audit
Audit	Kim Ho-geun	President, Korea Authorized Textbooks	2012 4/14 ~ 2016 4/14

References

• 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