Seoul Japanese School

Other fees: Fees published for Japanese fiscal/academic year Reiwa 8 (April 2026 - March 2027), document linked from the school's official site https://sites.google.com/view/seouljs (page '入園入学案内'). Tuition is published as a MONTHLY amount and has been annualised x12 months (the school year runs April to March): kindergarten youngest class (nen-sho, age 3) KRW 550,000/month; nen-chu and nen-cho (ages 4-5) KRW 510,000/month; Elementary and Middle School (ages 6-14) KRW 390,000/month. Entrance fee KRW 650,000 (not charged for internal progression from Elementary to Middle School; reduced by 40% to KRW 390,000 for the third and later sibling). Total payable at entry KRW 1,280,000 (youngest kindergarten), KRW 1,240,000 (ages 4-5), KRW 1,120,000 (elementary and middle). Building reconstruction reserve KRW 50,000/month and heating/cooling KRW 30,000/month are recurring and NOT included in tuition (recorded in other_fees rather than capital_levy because they are annual, not one-off). School bus KRW 283,500/month. PTA fee KRW 30,000/year. Textbooks, workbooks, shipping/handling and ICT fees (Loilo Note, MDM - elementary and middle) are billed separately. Entry payments are not pro-rated (charged per month). NOTE ON SCOPE: this is the Japanese national-curriculum foreign school serving Japanese expatriate families, not an English-medium international school; it appears on the Seoul Metropolitan Government list of foreign schools in Seoul and on the Korean MOE register at isi.go.kr, in the same regulatory class as the Lycee Francais and Deutsche Schule Seoul.