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Paper Editorial: What is Tiger Times?

Paper Editorial: What is Tiger Times?

Dawn Kim | Jun 9, 2018

By Jeremy Nam and Dawn Kim The answer can be simple. Tiger Times is our school’s newspaper. It is student-led and student-run from article idea discussions to packaging to distribution. Ten times...

Web Editorial: What went right, not wrong

Web Editorial: What went right, not wrong

Hannah Kim | Jun 6, 2018

By Hannah Kim and Junie Kah Communities and societies are naturally inclined to criticize and search for the shortcomings of any human effort. While this attitude of wanting improvement has been the...

Dangerous thinking from the White House

Dangerous thinking from the White House

Nicholas Kim | Apr 16, 2018

By Nicholas Kim & Soomin Chun For many of us millennials in Seoul who are only two generation removed from those who had experienced the horrors of the Korean War, the consequences of conflict are...

Korean instruction necessary for global citizenry

Korean instruction necessary for global citizenry

Nicholas Kim | Dec 7, 2017

“Seoul International School develops inquisitive, independent thinkers and collaborative learners, who acquire the essential knowledge necessary to be caring and creative contributors to the world around...

Community service focus needed at home

Community service focus needed at home

Nicholas Kim | Nov 9, 2017

Clubs at SIS exist to provide extra opportunities for students to pursue their passions outside of the classroom. In particular, a bevy of “volunteer” clubs (Red Cross Youth, Habitat for Humanity,...

Let it be

Let it be

Soomin Chun | Oct 18, 2017

By Soomin Chun & Nicholas Kim SIS is widely known among other Korean international schools and colleges alike for its highly competitive environment. Walking through the hallways of our high school...

Elitism: A Double-Edged Sword

TTAdmin | Sep 7, 2015

Elitism is defined as the advocacy or existence of an elite as a dominant element in a system or a society. As a result, the word is commonly associated with negative connotations such as snobbery and...

January: Honor code insufficient in reducing academic dishonesty

TTAdmin | Jan 31, 2015

During the first semester, the Student Improvement Committee worked on an Honor Code under the guidance of the administration, who expressed the need to reduce cheating. After it was completed, the Honor...

December: Weighted assessments of cognitive skills inconsequential

TTAdmin | Dec 15, 2014

Last year, the administration revised the school’s grading policy to reflect different levels of thinking. Each department chose categories, usually addressing knowledge, application and analysis, evaluation...

November: Letter to the Editor from Fredric Schneider

TTAdmin | Nov 30, 2014

I cannot resist the opportunity to respond to the article on Early College deadlines. This is not like a “typical American public school’ where most seniors would apply to five or six schools at the...

November: Joint efforts of students, HSSC necessary to improve Open Forum

TTAdmin | Nov 30, 2014

In response to students’ complaints about the HSSC’s lack of activity within the school, the Student Improvement Committee (SIC) initiated an Open Forum on Oct. 14. Through this forum, all students...

October: Skewed perception of grades shapes academic environment

TTAdmin | Nov 1, 2014

Nearly 50 percent of students in each grade level received an Honor Roll-Award of Excellence last year. The average grade point average of the current senior class is 93.62, which is less than a point...

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