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Putting international back in international school

Brandon Choi, Executive Copy Editor | Feb 28, 2023

For an international school, our school lacks a representative diverse student body. With a significant majority of our students being ethnically Korean, our school suffers from a homogenous cultural and...

Spring sports begin

Spring sports begin

Danny Donghyun Han, Reporter | Feb 28, 2023

On Feb. 14, the spring sports tryouts began. This season consists of soccer, badminton, and track and field.  There are many changes for the spring season—namely, track and field became a varsity...

Chess craze checkmates SIS

Chess craze checkmates SIS

Paul Moon, Managing Editor | Feb 28, 2023

Recently, one leisure activity has dominated the SIS halls and classrooms: chess. Many students play daily and even during class, a trend that began in the second semester. The popularity of chess is consistent...

RAK put up a cupcake to “sprinkle kindness around SIS.”

RAK holds Kindness Week at SIS

Hannah Yi, Copy Editor | Feb 22, 2023

Starting on Monday, Feb. 13, Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) hosted Kindness Week leading up to the Random Acts of Kindness Day on Feb. 17. The club has celebrated the Random Acts of Kindness Day since 2018. “The...

Interviews with SIS students about mask mandate release

Interviews with SIS students about mask mandate release

Cherlin Kim, Managing Editor | Feb 16, 2023

https://youtu.be/3sYmSrL2418

Varsity cheerleading goes to KAIAC

Varsity cheerleading goes to KAIAC

Erin J Choi, Reporter | Feb 10, 2023

On Feb 4, the varsity cheer team and the two coaches—Hana Jeon and Nydia Hernandez—traveled to Chadwick International School for their KAIAC competition. Seven international schools competed, including...

SIS ventures into the Science Bee

SIS ventures into the Science Bee

Paul Moon, Managing Editor | Feb 8, 2023

SIS participated for the first time in the International Academic Competitions’ Science Bee on Sunday, Feb. 5. Five members of the Science Club—Paul Moon (11), Yuna Park (11), Tobias Choy (11), Cecilia...

From left to right: Ian Park (11), Fabian Roh (12), Jungwoo Lee

SIS competes at KAIAC robotics championship

Andrew Shin, Reporter | Jan 31, 2023

On Jan. 28, SIS competed in the final KAIAC robotics tournament at SFS, in which SIS placed fourth out of ten alliance teams, or a total of 21 participating teams. Four teams from APIS, four teams...

swimmers at the GSIS swimming pool

Swimming into the new year

Danny Donghyun Han, Reporter | Jan 28, 2023

With the start of second semester, SIS swimmers are back in the pool, training for their B style meets.  For context, KAIAC has implemented a ‘A and B’ system to categorize the myriad of swim races....

Chinese classes celebrated the Chinese New Year on Jan. 18th

Chinese classes celebrate Chinese New Year

Jack Lee, Reporter | Jan 20, 2023

On Jan. 18th, Chinese classes celebrated the Chinese New Year in the atrium. Vanessa Cui and Chin Hsein Pan, high school Chinese teachers, helped to organize the event. “With Ms.Pan, we both helped...

The Forensics Debate team celebrate after the tournament ends.

SIS places second in KAIAC Forensics Tournament

Waan Choi, Copy Editor | Jan 17, 2023

On Jan. 13-14, the SIS Forensics Speech and Debate team went to KIS to participate in the KAIAC Forensics Conference Tournament, winning many individual awards and placing second overall.  The Speech...

Music department hosts winter concert

Music department hosts winter concert

Erin J Choi, Reporter | Dec 5, 2022

On Dec. 1, the music department held its winter concert after school in the auditorium. Directed by band director Michael Ganus, strings director Julia Kim, and choir director Lesley Scott, there were...