Busan International High School

Busan International High School 부산국제고등학교 / 釜山國際高等學校 / Busan-gukje-godeung-hakgyo
Location
Busanjin-gu, Busan, Korea, Republic of
Information
Type	Public, Boarding school
Motto	Eyes Towards the World, Hearts Full of Dreams (Nuneun segyero, gaseumeun huimangeul 눈은 세계로, 가슴은 희망을)
Established	1997
Principal	Mok Jong-Ok (목종옥)
Faculty	approx. 70
Number of students	approx. 480
Tree	Pine
Flower	Camellia
Website	www.gukje.hs.kr/

Busan International High School (Hangul: 부산국제고등학교; Hanja: 釜山國際高等學校) is a prominent high school located in Busan, South Korea specializing in humanities & social science. Busan International High School is a co-educational public high school, which opened in 1997 for the purpose of preparing students for leading roles as experts in international relations. The schools for this purpose are called "international high schools," and Busan International High School is one of them along with Cheongshim International High School and Seoul International High School. They are classified as "schools for a special purpose" (teuksu mokjeok godeung hakgyo 특수목적고등학교).

Unlike foreign language high schools, students at Busan International High School are not divided into classes of languages they major in. They are distributed randomly into eight classes in each year, but they can still select their second language among Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and Russian, and they intensely learn the way to communicate in those languages for the three entire years.

Middle school grades, an exam testing scholastic aptitude in humanities and social science, and a test measuring the fluency of foreign languages are taken to select 160 students per year. The 160 students are divided into eight classes, which consist of twenty students each. Every student has to live in the dormitory and they can go to their home only once a week. The reputation of the school in Busan is relatively high, and many students choose the school with the reason that they can study with excellent students.

Every student in the school has to choose a club to join in, which will last for the 3 years of their high school years. Gukje English Debating Society (GEDS) is one of the main club activities of BIHS.

The school is located in Baegyang Mountain, Danggam-dong.