School of Performing Arts Seoul 서울공연예술고등학교 |
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16-26 Ori-ro 22na-gil, Guro-gu Seoul South Korea |
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Type | Private |
Established | 1966 |
Principal | Park Jae-ryeon (박재련) |
Deputy Principal | Kwon Oh-hyun (권오현) |
Faculty | 37 |
Gender | Boys and Girls |
Enrolment | 813 |
Website | http://sopa.hs.kr/ |
School of Performing Arts Seoul (Korean: 서울공연예술고등학교), colloquially known as 서공예 (SOPA) in South Korea, is an arts high school in Gung-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul.
SOPA was founded on March 6, 1966 as Jeonghui High School (정희고등공민학교로). On February 28, 2002, Park Jae-ryeon was appointed as principal. SOPA was relocated on September 1, 2008 to its current location at 147-1 Gung-dong, Guro-gu in Seoul.
After changing its name to School of Performing Arts Seoul (서울공연예술고등학교), SOPA took in their first batch of students on March 1, 2009. There are a total of 11,935 graduates as of February 4, 2016, with March 2, 2016 marking new student admissions for the 2016 school year.