[2] Jaekeun Lee, author of the master's degree thesis "En búsqueda de una identidad coreana-argentina: Exploración y aproximación panorámica de los elementos identitarios del coreano-argentino a través del análisis de La peonia y su sombra," described ICA as an example of maintaining "Koreanism",[a] that is, their Korean culture, language, and heritage in Argentina.
[2] The day school was established with funding from the South Korean government in 1995 with a curricula established and oversighted by the South Korean Ministry of Education, and the Argentine Ministry of Education gave formal approval to the enrollment of students in 1998, being added a morning school with the Argentine curricula taught in Spanish.
[1][2] The school has coursework in Korean, Spanish, and English, with subjects related to Korea in the first language.
Lessons are taught from Monday to Friday in the morning and in the afternoon, where morning subjects are standard lessons according to the Argentine curricula such as mathematics, Spanish language, physical education, natural sciences or social sciences that are taught in the Spanish language,[1][2] while afternoon subjects include English and Korean languages, Korean history, Korean art, and computing.
[1] ICA offers Korean language lessons in the "Saturdays' school" ("Escuela de los sábados" in Spanish), which Korean-Argentine and Argentine people can attend.