Gang Deok-su, a professor of Russian at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and head of the Sakha-Korea Friendship association, agreed to assist.

[2][8] The Yakutsk Korean Association, founded in 1989, had previously set up Sunday schools for the teaching of the Korean language, but due to the increasing demand for specialists of the language, powerful supporters threw their weight behind the move to set up a full-time school, including president of the Sakha Republic Mikhail Nikolayev.

[2][9] Other early local supporters of the school included head of the Institute for Advanced Education Studies[10] Olga Chorosova and chairwoman of the Yakutsk Korean Association Vera Shamayeva.

Its fifteenth anniversary, in December 2009, was celebrated in a ceremony attended by Mikhailova (who by then had risen to the position of vice-president of the Sakha Republic), minister of internal affairs Georgy Nikonov, and the South Korean consul-general of Irkutsk, Choi Seok-in.

[13] The teachers experience some culture shock at the different style of education, including the relative lack of age-based hierarchy at the school.