Yakutsk School Number 16

The principal is Aleksandr Dubinin; his wife, Roza Hanbeevna Dubinina, is also a teacher there.

The school attracted negative attention in 2008 due to a video which a student uploaded to a video-sharing site during the summer holiday, which insulted several teachers there.

The program has expanded due to the enthusiasm of Dubinina, herself a descendant of Korean immigrants to Russia and a former teacher at the Sakha-Korean School.

In 2005, a delegation from South Korea visited the school and gave them Korean clothing and school bags as a gift, and promised to provide further funding for textbooks and for study trips to Seoul for the best students.

[3] There are plans to employ a further teacher from South Korea to assist in the programme as well.