Education
The Cairo Korean School, founded on 5 December 1979 is Africa's only Korean day school and the earliest registered Korean educational institution of any kind in Africa; it enrolled 84 elementary school students and 119 middle school students as of 2007. Weekend Korean language schools for South Korean nationals have been established in eighteen other African countries as well, enrolling a total of 640 students. These are listed below (ordered by date of founding of the earliest school):
| Country | City | Date | School name | ↓ Teachers Students ↓ |
Levels | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | Nairobi | 1 March 1981 | 나이로비한인학교 Nairobi Han-in Hakgyo Nairobi Koreans' School |
8 | 58 | Kindergarten & elementary | |
| Ghana | 1 September 1981 | 재 가나 토요한글학교 Jae Gana Toyo Han-geul Hakgyo Ghana Saturday Hangul School |
6 | 72 | Kindergarten to high school | ||
| Ethiopia | 24 February 1984 | 주 이디오피아한글학교 Ju Idiopia Han-geul Hakgyo Ethiopia Hangul School |
2 | 13 | Elementary | ||
| Senegal | Dakar | 1 October 1986 | 다카르한글학교 Dakareu Han-geul Hakgyo Dakar Hangul School |
7 | 23 | Elementary & middle school | |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Abidjan | 8 July 1987 | 아비쟝한글학교 Abijyang Han-geul Hakgyo Abidjan Hangul School |
8 | 49 | Kindergarten & elementary | |
| Mauritania | Nouadhibou | 15 April 1988 | 누아디브한글학교 Nuadibeu Han-geul Hakgyo Nouadhibou Hangul School |
2 | 9 | Kindergarten to high school | |
| Morocco | Rabat | 7 October 1989 | 카사,라바트한글학교 Kasa, Rabateu Han-geul Hakgyo Casablanca-Rabat Hangul School |
5 | 22 | Kindergarten to middle school | |
| Agadir | 12 January 1991 | 아가딜한글학교 Agadil Han-geul Hakgyo Agadir Hangul School |
3 | 11 | Kindergarten to middle school | ||
| Egypt | Cairo | 1 September 1990 | 카이로한국학교부설토요학교 Kairo Han-guk Hakgyo Buseol Toyo Hakgyo Weekend School of Cairo Korean School |
3 | 15 | Elementary | |
| Gabon | 21 January 1991 | 가봉한글학교 Gabong Han-geul Hakgyo Gabon Hangul School |
3 | 16 | Elementary | ||
| Nigeria | Lagos | 21 January 1991 | 재 나이지리아 토요한글학교 Jae Naijiria Toyo Han-geul Hakgyo Nigeria Saturday Hangul School |
4 | 12 | Elementary | |
| Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | 1 May 1993 | 탄자니아한글학교 Tanjania Han-geul Hakgyo Tanzania Hangul School |
5 | 27 | Kindergarten to middle school | |
| Togo | Lomé | 2 July 1994 | 재 토고 토요한글학교 Jae Togo Toyo Han-geul Hakgyo Togo Saturday Hangul School |
4 | 27 | Kindergarten to high school | |
| South Africa | Johannesburg | 1 March 1992 | 요하네스버그한글학교 Yohaneseubeogeu Han-geul Hakgyo Johannesburg Hangul School |
14 | 82 | Kindergarten to middle school | |
| Pretoria | 4 February 1995 | 프레토리아한글학교 Peuretoria Han-geul Hakgyo Pretoria Hangul School |
8 | 46 | Kindergarten to middle school | ||
| Cape Town | 10 March 2001 | 케이프타운한글학교 Keipeutaun Han-geul Hakgyo Cape Town Hangul School |
10 | 30 | Kindergarten to high school | ||
| Uganda | 1 April 1995 | 우간다한인학교 Uganda Han-in Hakgyo Uganda Koreans' School |
6 | 26 | Kindergarten & elementary | ||
| Tunisia | Tunis | 11 November 1996 | 튀니스한글학교 Tuiniseu Han-geul Hakgyo Tunis Hangul School |
4 | 10 | Elementary | |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | 3 March 1997 | 하라레한글학교 Harare Han-geul Hakgyo Harare Hangul School |
4 | 10 | Kindergarten & elementary | |
| Botswana | Gaborone | 10 January 1998 | 보츠나와한글학교 Bocheunawa Han-geul Hakgyo Botswana Hangul School |
5 | 23 | Elementary to high school | |
| Cameroon | Douala | 1 January 2000 | 두알라한글학교 Dualla Han-geul Hakgyo Douala Hangul School |
4 | 25 | Kindergarten to middle school | |
| Yaoundé | 1 January 2000 | 야운데한글학교 Yaunde Han-geul Hakgyo Yaoundé Hangul School |
8 | 12 | Elementary to high school | ||
| Libya | 1 January 2000 | 재리비아주말한글학교 Jae Ribia Jumal Han-geul Hakgyo Libya Weekend Hangul School |
? | 22 | Kindergarten to high school | ||
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